Parliamentary Oversight

PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT OF CAG

Auditor and PAC: An Uneasy Relationship

A nation can never afford to forget its history. When CAG’s Performance Audit Report on the “Allocation of Coal Blocks and Augmentation of Coal Production” was tabled in Parliament in August 2012, the country witnessed a lot of high-pitched drama and hyperbole. The BJP, then in opposition, promptly demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who was also the Coal Minister during most of the period in question. On the other hand, the Congress spokesperson, Manish Tewari, slammed the CAG for not understanding the basics of ‘development economics’ on the ground that auctioning of

Parliamentary Oversight

July-September, 2018