Can the CAG comment on policy?

Recently the prime minister, at a meeting with some newspaper editors, criticised the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) for “going into policy issues that were not a part of its Constitutional mandate” (Business Standard, June 30). He said this against the background of recent controversies, particularly over the allocation of 2G spectrum for telecom and the allotment of the Krishna-Godavari (K-G) gas fields to private developers, in which the CAG examined and commented on certain policy matters.

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