 THE National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) was found to have “illogical” records of parents of loan applicants with a nurse said to be earning RM27.4mil. “Information of parents or guardians’ salary is important to determine the eligibility of the loan applicant. However, it was found that there were 384 record of salaries which were illogical compared to their job,” the Auditor-General’s Report said. Among others, it showed that a policeman earned RM1.98mil; while a clerk was paid just RM34 and a settler got a paltry RM2. The report also discovered 921 duplicated records, with students having between two and seven similar accounts. In its reply, PTPTN said that it would sort out its data on borrowers’ information in its master file. The archiving process is expected to finish by June On another matter, the Auditor-General also criticised the agency for equipping its officers with both a personal computer and laptop, a move which cost more than RM100,000 in leasing fees. Yet, the 104 computers were left unused in storerooms. “An officer should be alloted only one laptop which can be used both in the office or outside. Such a move could save PTPTN RM1.4mil in cost in three years.” The report said PTPTN branches in Pahang, Sarawak, Perak and Negri Sembilan had 49 desktops and seven laptops left in the storerooms. In its reply, PTPTN explained that 87 out of 104 computers had been installed in stages at its branches while the rest were used to facilitate the printing of National Education Savings Scheme deposit cards at all PTPTN counters.  As for the Prisons Department, it was ticked off for keeping its bread-making equipment at inappropriate places such as car parks. The equipment was meant for its Bread Industry Self-Sufficiency Pro-gramme where prisoners could acquire new skills. However, an audit on five prisons showed that the machines were not properly kept. In its response on Feb 4, the department said the machines had been moved to a safer place and that the rusty ones had been cleaned up. The Star
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