Ensure transparency in spending public money: President asks CAG
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DHAKA, March 2, 2021 (BSS) – President M Abdul Hamid today asked the authorities concerned to ensure transparency in spending government funds for the sake of public interest as a delegation of Comptroller and Auditor General of Bangladesh (CAG) submitted Annual Audit Report 2017-18 to him at Bangabhaban here this evening.
“Audit is a very important to ensure transparency in government expenditure . . . The government’s expenditure is gradually increasing at present,” he told the delegation led by Comptroller and Auditor General of Bangladesh (CAG) Mohammad Muslim Chowdhury.
The head of the state directed the CAG to intensify the audit activities to resolve the unresolved audit objections, President’s Press Secretary Mohammad Joynal Abedin told BSS.
Selection committee formed to fill two ACC commissioner posts Star Online Report Star Online Report
A five-member selection committee has been formed to fill up the posts of two commissioners of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
The ACC chairman and commissioner s posts will be vacant soon.
The selection committee members are Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, judge of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court; Justice M Enayetur Rahim, judge of High Court Division; Mohammad Muslim Chowdhury, controller and auditor general of Bangladesh; Sohorab Hossain, chairman of Bangladesh Public Service Commission and Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, former cabinet secretary.
If the former cabinet secretary fails to carry out the task, current cabinet secretary will do the job, reads a gazette notification issued today.