Centre bars recovery of excess salary from employees after pay certification, orders mandatory audits

New Delhi, Nov 12 (UNI) The union Finance Ministry has directed all central government ministries and departments to introduce mandatory audits of pay fixation orders and strengthen pre-retirement verification of service records to prevent excess salary payments and protect employees from recovery demands arising from administrative errors. In an office memorandum the Department of Expenditure said no recovery could be made from an employee for the period covered by a formally issued Certificate of Correctness of Pay. Any financial loss resulting from incorrect pay fixation may instead be recovered from the office that approved the certificate. "Upon issuance of the…