{"id":259311,"date":"2019-02-16T06:34:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T06:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=259311"},"modified":"2019-02-16T06:42:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T06:42:01","slug":"how-can-audit-report-not-have-figures-chidambaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-can-audit-report-not-have-figures-chidambaram\/","title":{"rendered":"How can audit report not have figures: Chidambaram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Thursday said the Comptroller and Auditor General of India had failed the people of the country by giving an audit report on the Rafale deal without specific numbers as it \u201cmeekly submitted to the unprecedented demand\u201d of the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat will an auditor do without numbers? The CAG should have told the government he wouldn\u2019t submit the report without specific numbers,\u201d party veteran P. Chidambaram said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if you stretch Article 10 (of the Inter-Governmental Agreement) to its outer limit, the confidentiality clause can cover only armament capabilities,\u201d the former finance minister added. \u201cWhy should commercial details not be disclosed to the CAG?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Thursday said the Comptroller and Auditor General of India had failed the people of the country by giving an audit report on the Rafale deal without specific numbers as it \u201cmeekly submitted to the unprecedented demand\u201d of the government. \u201cWhat will an auditor do without numbers? The CAG should have told the government he wouldn\u2019t submit the report without specific numbers,\u201d party veteran P. Chidambaram said. \u201cEven if you stretch Article 10 (of the Inter-Governmental Agreement) to its outer limit, the confidentiality clause can cover only armament capabilities,\u201d the former finance minister added. \u201cWhy should commercial details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}