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  • Posted Date : 04-Jan-2021 , 08:43:38 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has written to the finance ministry seeking details about the ongoing performance audit of government's massive recapitalisation excercise of public sector banks (PSBs). CAG is doing performance audit on recapitalisation of PSBs after 2016-17...

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  • Posted Date : 07-Aug-2020 , 10:26:10 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Former Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Girish Chandra Murmu will be the new Comptroller and Auditor General of the country. Mr Murmu will succeed Rajiv Mehrishi. An IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, Mr Murmu resigned as Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. #casansaar (Sour...

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  • Posted Date : 07-Feb-2020 , 10:00:01 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Selection of Auditors - Policy of Empanelment of CA Firms explained by CA. Bhawna Dawar. Watch this video. https://youtu.be/bFze1O1CbsQ...

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  • Posted Date : 31-Jul-2019 , 09:51:53 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has rapped direct tax authorities for irregularities in assessments of personal income and corporation taxes over the years. In a report on direct taxes for 2018-19 tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, the auditor suggested that the government consid...

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  • Posted Date : 31-Jul-2019 , 09:40:31 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The roll-out of GST has unified the multiple central and state taxes on goods and services to a great extent and made credit for input taxes available through the value chain, but hasn’t simplified the tax compliance regime while the experience so far has also been that of slowdown in tax reve...

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  • Posted Date : 12-Feb-2019 , 08:15:05 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Ministry of Finance spent Rs 1,157 crore on various heads during 2017-18 without obtaining prior approval of Parliament, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday said. Excess expenditure aggregating Rs 1,156.80 crore was incurred during 2017-18 without ...

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  • Posted Date : 30-Jul-2018 , 08:47:18 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Only 18 of 74 state PSUs in Bihar have finalised their accounts in the last three years and 65 of them have arrears in accounts from 1977-78 onwards, according to the CAG report of the year ended on March 31, 2017. The CAG report tabled in the state legislature has cautioned that delay in finalisati...

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  • Posted Date : 26-Mar-2017 , 06:21:43 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) plans to audit the impact of note ban and the affect it has had on government tax revenues, said CAG Shashi Kant Sharma.  In an interview to PTI, he said the auditor is gearing up to audit tax revenues under the new Goods and Services Tax (G...

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  • Posted Date : 18-Jan-2017 , 08:58:46 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    As government prepares ground for roll-out of GST from July 1, CAG has demanded explicit provision in the law to empower the official auditor to call for any information for audit of Goods and Service Tax (GST) receipts and utilisation of their funds.  While the Comptroller and Auditor Gener...

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  • Posted Date : 31-Dec-2016 , 08:34:28 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Archana Nigam will take over as the next Controller General of Accounts in the Department of Expenditure under the Ministry of Finance on January 1, 2017. An Officer of the 1981 batch of the Indian Civil Accounts Service, Nigam has worked in various capacities in a number of ministries in the las...

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  • Posted Date : 04-Oct-2016 , 08:21:40 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) may audit the just ended black money disclosure scheme for the process followed and how well it performed, but will not get into the disclosures made.  As much as Rs 65,250 crore of undeclared assets were declared through 64,275 declarations...

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  • Posted Date : 31-Mar-2015 , 08:14:58 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Accounts of major political parties must be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) himself and with the same stringent parameters with which he audits government accounts to curb the use of black money during election campaigns, the high court was urged on Thursday. When the public ...

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  • Posted Date : 21-Mar-2015 , 08:27:29 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Over 94 per cent of the country's uncollected tax demand of Rs 5.75 lakh crore is difficult to recover, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has said. The CAG, in an audit report on direct taxes tabled in Parliament on Friday, also hauled up the Income Tax Settlement Commission and the i...

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  • Posted Date : 10-Mar-2015 , 08:00:54 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The government on Monday said it has raised Rs 2 lakh crore through auction of mining rights and royalty from 30 blocks that have been bid out so far, breaching the Comptroller & Auditor General's estimated "notional loss" of Rs 1.86 lakh crore.   Excluding the royalty, the government...

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  • Posted Date : 05-Mar-2013 , 05:50:03 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The government will have to explain allegations of malpractices in one of its flagship schemes to waive the debts of farmers across the country, a promise which helped power the coalition's victory in 2009 .    The government's auditor or CAG has said that the 52,000-crore scheme was mar...

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  • Posted Date : 02-Jul-2012 , 08:24:16 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Mr Jawahar Thakur has taken over as the new Controller General of Accounts (CGA).   A 1979-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service officer, Mr Thakur has played a key role in the area of developing an effective financial management information system, his latest initiative being the complete comp...

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  • Posted Date : 23-Mar-2012 , 08:06:56 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The CAG has told the Prime Minister that the media reports on alleged coal scam published in a newspaper is exceedingly misleading. Quoting CAG, the daily claimed that the government has lost 10.7 lakh crore rupees by not auctioning coal blocks.Rejecting the claim, the CAG in a letter to Dr Manmohan...

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  • Posted Date : 22-Mar-2012 , 10:52:33 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The CAG is at it again. About 16 months after it rocked the UPA government with its explosive report on allocation of 2G spectrum and licences, the Comptroller & Auditor General's draft report titled 'Performance Audit Of Coal Block Allocations' says the government has extended "undue benefi...

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  • Posted Date : 29-Feb-2012 , 06:55:18 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Auditors can play an important role in helping countries deal with economic crises by suggesting mid-course corrections, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India Vinod Rai said Wednesday."These are momentous times in the histories of many nations. New paradigms are evolving in the political sy...

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  • Posted Date : 17-Nov-2011 , 08:19:01 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday maintained that even as every decision of the government was not likely to be the most optimal, the possibility of institutional failures, oversight and ignorance could impact the decision-making process. In his address at a concluding function here to...

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  • Posted Date : 05-Nov-2011 , 08:40:46 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) will now scrutinise all the schemes of Rural Development Ministry and Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Friday. Announcing the decision, Mr. Ramesh said the two Ministries annually spend Rs 88,000 crore which is...

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  • Posted Date : 30-Oct-2011 , 08:58:16 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Amidst a debate on controversies surrounding some of the CAG reports, the High Level Committee which went into the Commonwealth Games related projects, has suggested changes in the functioning and structure of top audit and vigilance bodies like the Comptroller and Auditor General making it a three ...

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  • Posted Date : 13-Oct-2011 , 08:33:31 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The CAG has advised Oil Ministry to allow Reliance Industries to recover expenditure on its eastern offshore KG-D6 field only after it has been audited. Stating that the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) letter to the ministry was to "flag the critical issues so as to facilitate adequate p...

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  • Posted Date : 11-Oct-2011 , 08:37:17 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Jairam Ramesh on Monday broke off from his CAG-bashing ministerial colleagues and asked the agency to audit the over Rs 1,00,000-crore annual allocation by his department to rural development schemes. In a letter to the CAG, Jairam Ramesh has sought the appointment of special accountant generals ...

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  • Posted Date : 04-Oct-2011 , 07:55:46 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The home ministry has declined a request from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) for documents and other material to enable it to carry out an audit of the Padma Awards. The ministry’s decision has the backing of India’s highest law officer, and the file has been cleared by Home M...

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  • Posted Date : 12-Sep-2011 , 07:47:06 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Government auditor CAG is seeking to widen the scope of its powers to audit the performance of regulators such as Sebi, Trai and Irda as part of the new legislation that will replace the CAG Act, 1971. The proposed CAG Bill, now under consideration of the finance ministry, i...

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  • Posted Date : 05-Aug-2011 , 11:51:12 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report on irregularities in the October 2010 Commonwealth Games will be tabled in parliament on Friday, according to the business listed for the two houses. The report, which has already caused much uproar after being leaked to the media, is expected ...

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  • Posted Date : 28-Jul-2011 , 07:18:15 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    India’s accounting watchdog the Comptroller and Auditor General has agreed to supervise the auditing of accounts of registered political parties and expenditure of candidates contesting in elections for legislative bodies. Each registered political party is required to submit annual financial ...

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  • Posted Date : 26-Jul-2011 , 02:01:06 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Government auditorCAG today said it is in the process of finalising its report on Reliance Industries'sKG-D6 gas fields. Refuting allegation by theReliance Industries that it was not given enough time to respond to the audit observations, Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai said,...

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  • Posted Date : 24-Jul-2011 , 09:38:09 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The government auditorCAG has sought details from all banks, including regional rural banks and cooperative banks, regarding the implementation of the Rs 71,000-crorefarm debt waiver scheme. The scheme provided relief to about four crore farmers. Information has been sought to examine how effec...

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