Para 1.1.16 — MSO

Powers in connection with performance of duties

1.1.16 Besides the duties and functions which the Comptroller and Auditor General exercises in relation to the accounts of the Union, the States, the Union Territories and of certain other authorities and bodies which devolve on him or are entrusted to him under specific provisions of law, he is also responsible for the following:

(a) Watching the due compliance of directions of a financial or quasi-financial character issued by the President to a State.

(b) Audit of pension payments on behalf of certain foreign governments when these are paid in India.

(c) Audit and certification of pension payments made in India on behalf of the Government of Burma (now Myanmar).

(i) As a reciprocal arrangement, the Auditor General of Burma (Myanmar) audits and certifies pension payments made in that country on behalf of the Government of India.

(ii) This arrangement does not, however, apply to such pension payments as are made in Burma (Myanmar) but are borne by the Government of India.

(iii) The procedure may be extended by mutual agreement between the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the Auditor General of Burma (Myanmar) to other payments made in India on behalf of the latter Government or vice versa.