Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) K Sanjay Murthy announced on Sunday that the apex audit body had identified a few key audit areas, including ease of doing business, and that it also aimed to assess progress made under the theme of “ease of living” across 101 major cities.

Addressing an event organised to mark the Audit Diwas–observed on November 16 every year, Murthy said, “Keeping in view our national priorities, we have identified a few key audit areas. Recognising that more than half of the nation’s population will reside in urban areas by 2047 and that quality of urban life is a direct measure of a nation’s progress, we are reinvigorating the audit of urban local governments.

Our audit aims to assess progress under the theme of ease of living in 101 major cities. This au

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