{"id":126638,"date":"2022-12-09T15:14:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=126638"},"modified":"2022-12-09T15:14:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:44:42","slug":"comptroller-and-auditor-general-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/comptroller-and-auditor-general-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL OF INDIA: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 9 December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL OF INDIA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7 The Constitution of India (Article 148) provides for an independent office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7 He is the head of the Indian Audit and Accounts Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7 He is the guardian of the public purse and controls the entire financial system of the country at both the levels\u2013the Centre and the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7 His duty is to uphold the Constitution of India and laws of Parliament in the field of financial administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7 This is the reason why Dr. B.R. Ambedkar said that the CAG shall be the most important Officer under the Constitution of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7 He is one of the bulwarks of the democratic system of government in India; the others being the Supreme Court, the Election Commission and the Union Public Service Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL OF INDIA \u25c7 The Constitution of India (Article 148) provides for an independent office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). \u25c7 He is the head of the Indian Audit and Accounts Department. \u25c7 He is the guardian of the public purse and controls the entire financial system of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":126639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755],"tags":[1797],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-126638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-important-topics","tag-upsc-daily-important-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126640,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126638\/revisions\/126640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126638"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=126638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}