The Officer Raj

On the last working day of September, the Nandan Nilekani-led UID Authority received a rather clinical-sounding communication from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), informing him that he was sending in a team to conduct a performance audit of UPA 2’s flagship programme. This was to be a performance audit. Now, UID was not due for audit this year, so this was some kind of special initiative. And sudden too. Because on the morning of the very next working day, October 3, Monday, the CAG team was sitting in the UID offices. It was almost like a tax or CBI raid.

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