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TopicCAG audit

Topic: CAG audit

Ambulances hauling minerals, monitoring failure—CAG report cites ‘illegal mining’ during Yogi’s 1st term

Audit report tabled in UP assembly earlier this month reveals irregularities in mining & transport of minerals in 17 districts of the state.

CAG missed out on examining demonetisation despite announcing that it would do so

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’s grim diagnosis of Delhi Mohalla Clinics: ‘30-second consultations’, drugs out of stock for months

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.

Over 30 yrs after 74th Amendment, CAG flags ‘weak compliance’ with law empowering urban local bodies

CAG found while 17 of 18 functions were devolved to urban local bodies by 74th Amendment, just 4 were ‘effectively devolved with complete autonomy’.

Bengal civil servants decry audit report on state’s finances, CAG official says ‘no error’

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.

Govt buried key information in footnotes, understated external debt by Rs 2 lakh crore, says CAG 

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.

As Modi govt, Opposition exchange barbs on CAG reports, a look at the auditor’s role & how it functions

New Delhi: The Parliament received 12 reports, including a bunch of performance audits, from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) during the...

‘No UDAN, only lies,’ Kharge hits out at Modi govt over CAG report on air connectivity scheme

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.

How DRDO’s massive project delays cost armed forces — CAG report cites ‘multiple extensions’

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.

CAG slams DRDO for delays, declaring projects successful despite failure to meet key goals

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.

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Cautious optimism — India’s new relationship with Tarique Rahman’s Bangladesh

Both Bangladesh and India will have to work together to repair the damage done during the Yunus administration.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.