{"id":975368,"date":"2025-11-20T10:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=975368"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:07:37","slug":"cag-charts-a-tech-driven-overhaul-of-public-audit-data-led-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/20\/cag-charts-a-tech-driven-overhaul-of-public-audit-data-led-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"CAG charts a tech-driven overhaul of public audit, data-led reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India is looking to overhaul the country\u2019s public audit system, moving towards data-centric reviews, artificial intelligence (AI) and stronger institutional capacity. A central pillar of this change is a new Centre of Excellence for Financial Audit in Hyderabad, which will develop specialized skills and uniform audit methodologies across departments, said A.M. Bajaj, deputy CAG (Commercial &amp; Report Central).<\/p>\n<p>The move comes amid wide variations in the audit templates used by autonomous bodies, creating inconsistencies that complicate policymaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India is looking to overhaul the country\u2019s public audit system, moving towards data-centric reviews, artificial intelligence (AI) and stronger institutional capacity. A central pillar of this change is a new Centre of Excellence for Financial Audit in Hyderabad, which will develop specialized skills and uniform audit methodologies across departments, said A.M. Bajaj, deputy CAG (Commercial &amp; Report Central). The move comes amid wide variations in the audit templates used by autonomous bodies, creating inconsistencies that complicate policymaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975368","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}