Prime Minister Manmohan Singh iterated the need to have a larger political consensus on the issue of financing of political parties and elections, replying to a question during his press conference on Monday. But that is merely one, though critical, aspect of the wider need for political reforms in the country. It is an area sorely in need of attention. For, even issues like building infrastructure, investing in health care...
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CAG to have a say in babus' appraisals by Pradeep Thakur
The annual confidential report (ACRs) of an IAS officer may now depend a lot on the administrative skills he shows in the implementation of several centrally-sponsored social sector programmes and how effectively he takes a district up on the developmental parameters. Concerned at largescale leakages in many of the social sector schemes, the Manmohan Singh government has asked its official Auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), to change the...
More »CAG wins UN food programme Audit bid
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...
More »Audit shock by Purnima S Tripathi
A social Audit on the working of the ban on child labour in the domestic and hospitality sectors reveals a sorry state of affairs. LIKE any normal child, Illyas from Varanasi, a 13-year-old, wanted to go to a regular school and become an important man some day. But poverty forced him to start working at an eatery for Rs.200 a day so that he could feed his younger siblings. He,...
More »NREGS to give 100-day work to 3 million families in AP by B Krishna Mohan
The Andhra Pradesh government has fixed a target to provide compulsory 100 days employment to 3 million households through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) during the financial year 2010-11. Last year, only 1.4 million households were provided with 100-day work in the state. In all, the state is aiming to touch 6.2 million households during the year implying a spend of about Rs 7,000 crore, up 52...
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