CAG suspends Padma awards audit

In a move that may mark a thaw in its ties with the government, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has discontinued mid-course the controversial audit of Padma awards. The move is likely to gladden the home ministry that had objected to any such scrutiny. Overruling objections from his director general of central expenditure, CAG Vinod Rai has asked his audit team to suspend glossing over oversight on part of the government in conferring the prestigious civilian awards, some of which in the recent past had triggered widespread debate.

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