The Comptroller and Auditor General of India Girish Chandra Murmu once again have been appointed as the Chairman of the Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations for 2021.
The UN panel consists of 13 countries:
India, Germany, Chile, China, United Kingdom, France, Philippines, Switzerland, Italy, Ghana, Indonesia, Canada, and Russia.
The CAG, Girish Chandra Murmu was elected as Chairman of the panel last year as well.
Currently, Murmu is also the external auditor of the World Health Organization, Geneva (2020 – 2023) and Food & Agriculture Organization, Rome (2020 – 2025), and Inter Parliamentary Union (2020-2022).
As the Chairman of the UN panel, the CAG of India plays a key role in achieving its objective of greater degree of collaboration and coordination and exchange of information on audit methods and findings, among the panel members.
The UN General Assembly in 1959 established the Panel of External Auditors, comprising the individual external auditors of the United Nations system, who are also Heads of Supreme Audit Institutions, that is, Comptroller and Auditors General of their respective countries.
The CAG of India has been the external auditor of various international organizations.
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