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Posted By: Dr Manish | Biratnagar, Nepal | April 13th 2012 | 12:04 Sincerely wish people like Vinod Rai, Gen VK Singh, Anna, TN Seshan, Kejriwal, Arindam, Pritish Nandy, Ratan Tata and the likes of them, make a party and fight election. They are all so very different and so powerful. Together they can make a difference.
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Posted By: Aliya Fatima | Hyderabad | April 16th 2012 | 17:04 The visionary framers of Indian constitution very prudently delegated specific powers to specific roles to carry out specific tasks in such a remarkable way that in any case none shall accumulate the power so strong that it destroys the democracy. It means those holding power and position of responsibility work for the people and are also answerable to them for their actions and thus CAG of India is an instrument created by the Constitution to serve the people by auditing on their behalf.
The CAG of India is an independent authority appointed by the President of India to audit: All the union and state Government departments and offices including the Indian railways and postal and telecommunications. About 1,500 public commercial enterprises controlled by the union and state Government, i.e. Government companies and corporations. Around 400 non-commercial autonomous bodies and authorities who are controlled by the union or the states. Over 4,400 authorities and bodies substantially financed from union or state revenues. In broader sense, the audits can be classified as per the constitutional mandate and comptroller and auditor general’s (duties, powers & conditions of service) Act, 1971. “To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust,” said JF Kennedy about the role of CAG. Since the credibility of the Government depends on the public audit of the nation, the Constitution of India deemed it essential to grant the CAG of India the independent status so that his work does not get influenced by anyone. He can depict the true picture of the entity without any fear or favour. CAG’s audit is the check to control the risks of misuse of public fund. The CAG of India works with task force of about 60,000 employees (members of IAAD). Scattered throughout the nation. After making risk assessment only 60,000 audits are undertaken in annual audit plan out of 2,50,000 auditable entitles.
CAG’s audit is an external audit on behalf of people. CAG’s audit also makes executive accountable and answerable to the legislature. He is the guardian of common man’s fiscal. He acts as a link between executive on one hand and ‘parliament & community’ on the other hand. His role is to check the government spending according to the plans and policies formulated. He is the steward of public fund, savior of people’s money. His duty is to uphold the constitution and parliament in the field of financial administration.
Finally the recent 2G scam is the deficiencies in the system. As a result of bad consequences of this scam Rs 1.76 Lakh crore worth of exchequer money was lost by the govt. This was the biggest scam in the worlds history. This shows that the power which was entrusted to public officials to promote the betterment of people, they used it everyone’s’ else favour other than the people. This implies they are not serving the nation but the private groups. This means, they are working for the benefit of those private companies. The essence of democracy ‘Rule of people’ is lost. Democracy is running only in nominal sense. This makes us understand why did the framing fathers of our Constitution thought this (CAG) dignitary as the most important authority. "I am of the opinion that this dignitary or officer (C&AG) is probably the most important officer of the Constitution of India. He is the one man who is going to see that the expenses voted by parliament are not exceeded, or varied from what has been laid down by Parliament in what is called appropriation Act. If this functionary is to carry out the duties- and his duties, I submit are far more important than the duties than the duties of the Judiciary, “ said BR Ambedkar.
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Posted By: ER. NILOTPAL | ALLAHABAD | August 22nd 2012 | 21:08 I salute this one man army who has given a ray of hope to the people of this country, his sincere way of working has proved that if organisation like CAG, CBI ,CVC...Work properly than there is no need of wasting money on Lokpal We already have the remedy, just make it operational, hats off to this living legend, Vinod Rai.
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