“Public Records Of Operations and Finance’ or PROOF was one of the highlights of the 2007-08 budget, by which citizens will be provided with a quarterly report on amounts budgeted, actual expenditure and how much remains to be spent. The first quarterly balance sheet for 2008-09 is likely to be published in the first week of July.

“The initiative was delayed by problems of reconciliation and data switch from manual records to the SAP-ERP format,” said chief accountant (finance) Ram Dhas.

Proof is one of the reforms mandated under the Centre’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The balance sheet will be made available on mcgm.gov.in. The 2009-10 budget is already on the site.

“We hope all expenditures are made public, even at the ward level so that corporators can be held responsible,” said Surendra Srivastava of Lok Satta, an organisation working towards making the civic body accountable.