Drawing on decades of insider experience, P Sesh Kumar's 'CAG: What it Ought to be Auditing' questions whether the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) is truly fulfilling its constitutional mandate.
CAG has also flagged previous AAP govt's abject failure to meet the target of establishing 1,000 Mohalla Clinics by 2017, it is learnt. Report to be tabled in Delhi assembly Friday.
Civil servants held press briefing to say West Bengal had no pending utilisation certificates, as flagged by CAG in audit report. CM Mamata Banerjee has also raised issue with PMO.
Audit body found several other irregularities in govt’s accounts for FY22, including cess collections lying unused or misused, and expenditure being placed under opaque headings.
New Delhi: The Parliament received 12 reports, including a bunch of performance audits, from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) during the...
One key finding CAG report that Kharge also mentioned, is that as of March 2023, of 774 awarded routes under UDAN, only 7% could sustain operations beyond 3-year concession period.
CAG's Audit showed that of 178 high-priority Mission Mode projects, in 119, the original time-frames weren't adhered to & 'practice of seeking multiple extensions' defeated the purpose.
The auditor said out of 86 DRDO projects announced successful during January 2010 and December 2019, one or more key objectives were not met in 20 of them.
For India, the strategic ripples are significant. The immediate concern is Pakistan’s diplomatic gain as it embeds itself deeper into the defence framework of the Middle East.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
Building on long-standing ties & Islamic solidarity, Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement comes at a time of heightened regional tensions especially after Israeli attack on Doha.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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