The country's premier auditor, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), has won the prestigious bid to audit the United Nations World Food Programme. The audit is awarded for a period of six years. The CAG is considered among the best six official auditors in the world, ranked only after Canada, US, UK and France. The food programme was last audited by France. In the final bid process, India beat Philippines and...
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A policy? Rubbish by Ravi Agarwal
The Cobalt-60 radiation tragedy at Mayapuri in Delhi has unearthed many skeletons, which some seem to be desperate to hide. There is already a life lost, and maybe others irrevocably damaged, while everyone is busy hurling accusations at each other. This is a typical response. Instead, we need to examine the systemic problems that this incident has indicated. While those who were negligent must be punished, there are many questions...
More »A Sieve Of A Scheme? by Chandrani Banerjee
* Documentary evidence gathered by the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC) from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Rajasthan points to large-scale embezzlement in nrega projects * Panchayats often furnish fake bills and fictitious companies have been floated to divert funds * Hundreds of crores are lost to this sort of leakage * The CAG, too, has pointed out large-scale irregularities and corruption in the implementation of NREGA projects...
More »New Bill in next session to bring CAG under RTI
A new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Bill, likely to be introduced in the next session of Parliament, will bring the institution of CAG under the ambit of the Right to Information Act. Talking to the media on the sidelines of the 25th Conference of Accountants General here on Monday, CAG of India Vinod Rai said the new Bill would seek to replace the CAG Act, 1971, and empower the institution...
More »Power plants will dry up Ganga in Uttarakhand: CAG by Pradeep Thakur
There would be no water in large stretches of the famed Alaknanda and Bhagirathi riverbeds if the Uttarakhand government goes ahead with its plan to build 53 power projects on these two rivers which join at Dev Prayag to form the Ganga, the Comptroller and Auditor General has said. A CAG inspection report submitted to the Uttarakhand governor says that already the riverbed is completely dry at Shrinagar (Garhwal) and...
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