Sample Audit Reports

LAPSES, FAILURES OR PLAIN CORRUPTION?

A Quick Sample of Violations Brought Out by the CAG

Shakeb Ayaz*



This article discusses a raft of reports that have impacted the ordinary citizen. After all, the national audit agency’s job is to hold accountable the democratic state which has a social contract with its citizens and is their representative. To give you a flavour of a series of scathing audit observations, we are providing excerpts of some of the recent CAG reports on various public service programmes. These pertain to the Right to Education programme, Namami Gange programme, Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), railway station line capacity, National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), Bihar Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and Chennai Flood Management Plan (CFMP).

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July-September, 2018