CAG announces digital audits from April 1

NEW DELHI, March 31: All audit work across India will become paperless and will only be carried out digitally from April 1, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) announced on Friday.
The historic development will ensure that CAG’s 130-odd offices will not have to go through hundreds and thousands of files physically and records can be maintained for eternity.
“…. from tomorrow onwards, all new audit work in our institution will take place only through OIOS (One IAAD One System) and physical paper-based workflow must cease. From tomorrow onwards, the digitization process would be irreversible,” CAG Girish Chandra Murmu said on Friday.
Generally, close to 90 audit reports are prepared through CAG’s 130 offices across India and approved every year for submission to Parliament, state legislature or union territory legislature, containing findings on government business transacted during the preceding financial year (or earlier years). Digitisation will mean that no physical documents need to be studied by the auditors. (Agencies)