A look at these reports by the CAG help understand the political economy behind additional expenditure and compare them to quality of spending and outcome achieved.
VK Saxena, Lieutenant-Governor, Delhi, has written to CM Arvind Kejriwal regarding several serious irregularities in the Delhi government’s accounts and finances. The CAG Audit reports tabled after four years have exposed glaring irregularities by the AAP government.
swift and firm. do you know why he wanted that crossed out? i don t know. earlier this evening, luria spoke about the significance of this new information. this gave additional detail, you know, what went into the speech. really, it was enlightning to me the parts that he crossed out. and we wanted to make sure that we got that information, because it provides amplifying details on what we shared at the hearing. meanwhile, the ag reports, the committee wants to interview more trump cabinet members, and then they are also preparing to subpoena the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. ginni thomas, as you recall, is under scrutiny for her role in pushing to overturn the 2020 elections results. you and i have a voluntary conversation, just come on in, she said someone in the media that she was able to talk the committee. that s it.
CAGed: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on pendency of CAG reports
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Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 19:32 [IST]
New Delhi, Mar 10: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday raised question over alleged delay and pendency of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reports, tweeting the word CAGed along with a table showing the time taken by it for audit in the last few years to support his claim.
Taking to Twitter, he posted a table which showed the time taken by the CAG to prepare audit reports since 2011-12. The table shared by Gandhi showed that in the fiscal years 2017-18 and 2018-19, the CAG reports for which dates could be ascertained were either finalised within 12-18 months and 18-24 months after the fiscal year, or they were pending.
NEW DELHI: The number of reports brought out by the country’s top audit body, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, has come down sharply in the past five years, raising concerns that the government’s financial accountability is not coming under the CAG’s gaze very closely. The total number of CAG reports relating to central government ministries and departments came down from 55 in 2015 to just 14 in 2020, a fall of nearly 75%, a reply to an RTI application filed by this newspaper said.
The CAG’s mandate is to serve as a watchdog, bringing out financial, performance and compliance reports of the government. “The CAG is the supreme audit institution of India and is expected to promote financial accountability and transparency in the affairs of the audited entities,” the CAG said in its 2019-20 own performance report. The power its reports yield came out starkly during the United Progressive Alliance government of Manmohan Singh.