Team Herald
PANJIM: A six-member delegation headed by Director (Personnel), Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, (CAG) Vishal Desai, are on an official visit to the State to review the preparation for the upcoming Supreme Audit Institutions (SAI20) Summit in mid-June.
As part of India’s Presidency of the G20, the CAG will also chair the SAI20 for the year 2023. This gives India an opportunity to play a leadership role in promoting good governance and accountability in the public sector in India and among the other G20 countries.
The Supreme Audit Institutions or SAI20 is a group of audit organisations from the G20 countries that promotes good governance, transparency and accountability. India will hold the second meeting of the two scheduled SAI20 meetings as part of the G20 Summit in Goa from June 12 to 14. The first meeting for senior official of SAI20 member nations and the World Bank, was held inGuwahati in mid-March.
The SAI20 engagement group seeks to enhance transparency and accountability in governance by formulating strategies through discussions with all concerned parties. These strategies are then utilized to create policies that align with their goals and ones that impact global economies.
Sanjit Rodrigues, Secretary Protocol and Nodal Officer – G20, Goa chaired a meeting with the delegation on Thursday at the Secretariat, Porvorim.
“The delegation is here till Saturday and the members will visit hotels, airports and conference location to review the preparations for the SA120 summit,” he said.
CAG Girish Chandra Murmu, who is the chairman of SAI20, has called on the SAI meetings to focus on topics including blue economy and responsible artificial intelligence.
