{"id":1179,"date":"2012-08-28T13:33:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T08:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2012-08-28T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T08:03:45","slug":"demystfying-cag-courtesy-prs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/28\/demystfying-cag-courtesy-prs\/","title":{"rendered":"Demystfying CAG &#8211; courtesy PRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prsindia.org\/parliamenttrack\/primers\/-making-government-accountable-485\/#.UDx6rQfZxWo.wordpress\">PRS | Parliament Track | Primers | Making Government Accountable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A primer on how CAG works. Puts in perspective the role and methods of CAG, and how reports are released. As a layman, government audit reports going back to government (finance ministry) is a bit weird &#8211; they will obviously reject whatever doesn&#8217;t suit them. Madhukar, are there any checks and balances, or does the fact that these are public reports act as a counterbalance? Also, how are appointments to CAG made &#8211; seems like this is one office that everyone discredits all the time?<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextindia.org%2Findex.php%2F2012%2F08%2F28%2Fdemystfying-cag-courtesy-prs%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRS | Parliament Track | Primers | Making Government Accountable. A primer on how CAG works. Puts in perspective the role and methods of CAG, and how reports are released. As a layman, government audit reports going back to government (finance ministry) is a bit weird &#8211; they will obviously reject whatever doesn&#8217;t suit them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}