| Event Title: | Public Lecture |
| Topic: | Governance Issues in the context of Public Auditing , Public Lecture by Shri Shashi Kant Sharma, Comptroller and Auditor-General of India |
| Date/Time: | 16 February 2015 | 00:00 - 10:19 |
| Venue: | Treasury Building Auditorium |
| Speaker/s: | Shri Shashi Kant Sharma, Comptroller and Auditor-General of India |
| Description: | Mr Shashi Kant Sharma is the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of India since May, 2013. As a constitutional functionary, he is primarily entrusted with the responsibility to audit the accounts of the Union Government and of the State Governments of India. His reports are laid before the Parliament and Legislatures of the States. He was elected by the General Assembly of United Nations as a Member of the UN Board of Auditors in 2013. His other international responsibilities include Member of UN Panel of External Auditors, Chair of the Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Services Committee of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI), Chair of the Working Group of INTOSAI on I.T. Audit. He is also the Chair of Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI). Mr Shashi Kant Sharma belongs to the 1976 batch of the Indian Administrative Service. He has wide experience in the fields of Public Administration, Financial Services and Infrastructure Development. He was serving as Defence Secretary, Government of India, before assuming the position of CAG. Prior to this, he served as Secretary, Department of Financial Services in the Ministry of Finance and as Secretary, Information Technology in the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. He did his M.Sc. in Administrative Science and Development Problems at the University of York, U.K. and his post-graduate degree in Political Science from Agra University. |