{"id":1045842,"date":"2026-10-30T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045842"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:36:13","slug":"ai-and-data-analytics-to-power-next-phase-of-government-audits-says-cag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/30\/ai-and-data-analytics-to-power-next-phase-of-government-audits-says-cag\/","title":{"rendered":"AI and data analytics to power next phase of government audits, says CAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The next phase of audit will be characterised by deeper integration of technology, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has said. In its report on adding value to public governance 2025-26, the auditor said this will need expanding use of analytics-driven audits, artificial intelligence, machine learning and population-level transaction analysis will enable auditors to identify risks, anomalies and control weaknesses with greater precision and timeliness. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreased utilisation of data from digital platforms will support more comprehensive and evidence-based assurance,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The next phase of audit will be characterised by deeper integration of technology, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has said. In its report on adding value to public governance 2025-26, the auditor said this will need expanding use of analytics-driven audits, artificial intelligence, machine learning and population-level transaction analysis will enable auditors to identify risks, anomalies and control weaknesses with greater precision and timeliness. \u201cIncreased utilisation of data from digital platforms will support more comprehensive and evidence-based assurance,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045866,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045842\/revisions\/1045866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}