In the activities of the Internal Audit Service, the main focus is on preventive measures to prevent financial errors and omissions.

In particular, in 2021, according to the cost estimates of educational institutions and the staffing table, 143 billion soums will be allocated from the planned funds. sum is optimized.

As of February 15, 2022, as a result of urgent measures taken by the Ministry in this direction, 142 billion soums will be allocated. Today, this work is being carried out jointly with the Department of State Financial Control of the Ministry of Finance.

Based on the identified shortcomings and in order to prevent their recurrence in the future, the following work is being done:

First, in accordance with the instructions of the Chamber of Accounts, in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance, changes were made to the software package "UzASBO" to reduce the human factor and prevent planning shortcomings, introduced new modules and automatic restrictions.

Second, the information system "erp.maktab.uz" - a single electronic software package for the management of public education - has been developed. The system envisages the inclusion of all indicators relevant to schools, their teachers and students, and the integration of relevant information with databases in other systems to limit the human factor. Currently, work is underway to implement this software package.

Thirdly, the prevention of cases of misappropriation of budget funds in the organization of the Internal Audit Service of the Ministry is being strengthened, ie a separate "red" list of areas at risk of illegal expenditures has been formed. monitoring measures will be taken.

Fourth, the system has developed an electronic program for monitoring public procurement.

Work is underway to integrate this program into the system, ensuring its integration with the databases of the Republican Commodity Exchange of Uzbekistan and other relevant agencies.

In addition, in the first quarter of this year, the Ministry of Public Education will conduct a comprehensive study with the Chamber of Accounts, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Ministry of Finance to identify violations and prevent corruption.

Unfortunately, despite the work being done to prevent financial errors and shortcomings, the Internal Audit Service of the Ministry said that by 2021 the system will spend 91.1 billion soums in educational institutions. UZS, including 27.1 bln. soums (30% of total financial errors and omissions).

For example, an audit conducted last year in Andijan, Andijan region, led by the Accounts Chamber, revealed that 11.5 billion soums had been misappropriated by transferring employees' income taxes to plastic cards of non-employees in the system without transferring them to the state budget. (In 2020, 28.4 billion soums were misappropriated by the ministry in Andijan without paying cash and paying to unemployed employees and submitted to law enforcement agencies).

For information: compared to the reporting period of 2020, the total number of violations (228.3 billion soums) decreased by 1.5 times, deficits and misappropriations (70.7 billion soums) decreased by 2.6 times.

161 76 billion with criminal elements. The study materials were submitted to law enforcement agencies for legal assessment and legal action.