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September 2014

PART C: Information on & Around

By Narayan Varma Chartered Accountant
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CAG SEEKS RTI ACCESS TO GOVT FILES::

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India wants the Centre to grant to Right to information (RTI ) powers as it has been facing problems in securing details relevant to its audits of government finances and decision- making.

CAG Shashikant Sharma has written a letter of finance minister Arun Jaitley demanding that the federal auditor be given RTI powers to access information and a penal provision be included in the existing CAG’s Duties and Powers Act (DPC Act) to make it mandatory for furnishing of information in a time bound manner.

The federal auditor has issued a note on how information denial has been causing the problems.

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