The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has constituted a committee to look into “problems and issues” in the Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS), which will make recommendations to strengthen their budgeting, accounting and payment framework, a top official told The Indian Express.

The official said that the panel was constituted to implement outcomes of the Second State Finance Secretaries Conference held in New Delhi on September 19, which was attended by officials from the Ministry of Finance, RBI, the CAG and state governments.

“We have constituted a committee to look at the problems and issues in the Centrally Sponsored Schemes. Basically, for strengthening the budgeting, accounting and payment framework for the Centrally Sponsored Schemes,” the official told The Indian

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