mysore the newly established music university which hogged headlines last week when the vicechancellor and its registrar locked horns in public is once again in the news with audit reports pointing at various irregularities in its 112page report the government audit team has pointed out that vc hanumanna nayak dore has spent rs 6985 lakh in the past four years against rules in addition to disclosing the vcs spending to the tune of rs 239 crore with no supporting receipts and vouchers however dore has denied any illegality in spending money the report claimed that the vc who has withdrawn money from the university accounts has spent lakhs of rupees throwing governments rules on spending to the wind the vc who had gone on a sponsored trip to germany has withdrawn rs 80326 from the university accounts claiming that the amount was spent on tour preparations says the report though there is no provision to buy music instruments the vc has reportedly spent rs 1456 lakh on music instruments for the nonexisting music museum it says the university has spent rs 406 lakh on security guards posted at the old campus in the citys vijayanagar area though it was vacated long ago after shifting the university to a school building at lakshmipuram the report says according to the report the government should recover rs 69 lakh 85 lakh from the vc as the law stipulates that the beneficiary should remit the amount the auditors pointed out that to circumvent the transparency act the vc split works and got them done through contractors as the act stipulates that work worth rs 1 lakh and above has to be allotted through tenders when contacted dore denied any illegality in spending money and said there are only small procedural lapses these lapses crept in because the university has no officer to look after financial matters i am not a financial expert and i dont know all procedures governing expenditures he claimed adding that he got the works done without looking into the intricacies of financial procedures i am replying point by point to the government on how the money was spent as per law he added registrar m basavanna who confirmed that the audit report has pointed out lapses said i received the report and sent to the vc all irregularities have happened before i assumed the post a yearandhalf agohighlights of the report vc has claimed travel bills of rs 3 lakh to 4 lakh for his trips to native town gulbarga against the provision of one or two trips a year by train he has reportedly spent about rs 7 lakh for clearing weeds on the land acquired by the university near varkod village though the university has no plans for campus development yet spent rs 3 lakh on clearing weeds around a rented house owned by muda at vijayanagar where the university was established vc allegedly received rs 10000 per month as home office