CAG should have powers to punish guilty, says Vinod Rai

NEW DELHI: CAG Vinod Rai, whose audit reports have exposed a number of scams, on Thursday appeared to suggest that the official auditor should have the powers of punishment. He said that he was not averse to the CAG being made a multi-member body but it should have "attendant powers and responsibilities".

"There is nothing wrong in the suggestion. There are different models all around. There are multi-member bodies. In France, they sit as a court, believe me their powers are fantastic. They can punish defaulters.

"There are commission models and again with absolutely far reaching powers. So in terms of power, it is the poor CAG of India who actually has no powers. He just prepares audit reports and submits them to Parliament," Rai said.

Rai said that the suggestion of multi-member CAG was made by the Justice Venkatachaliah committee that went into the issue of re-writing the Constitution. "At that time, the comments from the institution of CAG was that it should not be made a multi-level body. But we, about three years back or two years back, had said, yes make it a multi-member body but with attendant powers and responsibilities".

Rai was non-comittal on whether he would join politics after his retirement in May. "During my entire career I have been apolitical. I hope to continue in the same fashion," he said. "I best leave it to time to decide what actually I would be doing," he added.

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