-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has sent a fresh reminder to the law ministry seeking "urgent" sanction of funds for procurement of voter-verifiable paper Audit trail (VVPAT) in time to hold the 2019 Lok Sabha elections with new-age EVMs. In a letter written to law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on March 22, Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi reiterated that the order for supply of VVPAT needed to be...

-The Indian Express Govt orders 18-hr power supply to villages, all villages to be covered by 2019 THE STATE Cabinet on Tuesday decided to allow central Audit agencies such as the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) to Audit development authorities in the state, which included the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA). The previous Akhilesh government had denied permission to the CAG to Audit GDA. In the second Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Draft guidelines outlining stringent regulations intended to enhance accountability of lakhs of NGOs and voluntary organisations receiving nearly Rs 1,000 crore of government grants every year were submitted by the Centre to the Supreme Court on Wednesday . The guidelines may seem exhaustive for most NGOs and VOs as they said organisations wanting to get government funds must register afresh online with Niti Aayog's `NGO-Darpan' portal...

-NDTV NEW DELHI: Soon after the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) issued a notification making Aadhaar card mandatory for accessing mid-day meals, it released data claiming that thanks to Aadhaar, four lakh 'ghost' or duplicate students enrolled with the state education department had been detected. This discovery was used to bolster the government's defence that Aadhaar can help curb corruption in the school lunch scheme, and ward off criticism from critics...

-The Hindu Auditor denied access to GST Network The crucial question about how and where Auditors should get access to GST data continues to hang fire, even as hundreds of CAG Auditors are being put through specialised training in anticipation of the implementation of the new tax regime from July 1. Various government officials, including ministers, have been insisting that the proposed tax regime will come into force as scheduled. The GST Network...