Rabat [Morocco], September 17 (ANI): Girish Chandra Murmu, Comptroller and Auditor General of India and Zineb El Adaoui, the primary President of the Court of Accounts, Morocco have determined to develop and strengthen their institutional skilled capacities and share methodologies within the area of public audit.
An MoU to this impact was signed by CAG Girish Chandra Murmu and Zineb El Adaoui at Rabat on Friday. In signing the MOU, each events additionally agreed to conduct coaching programmes of their respective international locations and discover different technique of capacity improvement assist. Murmu is at present on an official go to to Morocco, learn a press launch by the workplace of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
CAG stated that the MoU is a reaffirmation of the values and targets that each establishments have shared over a protracted interval and a cementing of the ties that exist already between our two nations. CAG was optimistic that the MoU will yield many alternatives for better change of data and expertise between each SAIs and also will foster the spirit of cooperation and friendship between the SAIs.
Murmu seen that in immediately’s quickly altering world, new applied sciences continually create contemporary avenues for audit and make audits extra environment friendly and expressed confidence that the change of data and capacity improvement initiatives between SAI India and Morocco will equip them in the usage of rising applied sciences for auditing.
CAG highlighted the energetic participation of SAI Morocco within the working group on Environmental Audit which has resulted in two wonderful reference guides on this space. The research on ‘Land Use and Land Management Practices in Environmental Perspective’ led by SAI Morocco has introduced out a doc that offers comprehensively with the varied varieties of land use, the varieties of degradation, and the modalities of auditing land use from an environmental and sustainability perspective.
Speaking about SAI India’s initiatives within the area of IT audit and information analytics, Murmu stated that the IT Audits carried out by SAI India embrace the audit of citizen-centric topics and concentrate on transparency in e-governance, and nationwide safety pursuits.
Such audits are overarching protecting central ministries, state authorities, native our bodies, autonomous our bodies and so on. IT Audits have additionally been carried out in State Owned Enterprises (like Oil, Insurance and Electricity Boards and so on.).
CAG additionally knowledgeable that it’s Centre for Data Management and Analysis has been supporting many SAIs inside and outdoors to improve their capabilities with the usage of information analytics within the area of public sector audit.
He stated that the worldwide coaching facility of SAI India, the International Centre for Environmental AuditSustainable Development (ICED) has additionally been carefully working with SAIs and different worldwide organisations for capacity improvement initiatives within the area of Environmental Audit and Sustainable Development.
CAG was glad to inform the First President concerning the participation of 60 officers from SAI Morocco within the International Training Programs at our Global Training Facilities viz. ICISA, Noida and ICED, Jaipur to date.
Murmu highlighted the relations between India and Morocco which dated again a number of centuries to Ibn Battuta, the famed 14th Century traveller from Tangiers, who visited India and left detailed accounts of the lifetime of the widespread folks of India throughout that point.
The deep-rooted hyperlinks shared by each the international locations from the times of that well-known traveller and the heat of those civilization ties are mirrored within the modern-day relations between India and Morocco as properly. He stated that the wealthy tradition and heritage of Morocco are tremendously admired by the folks of India which is clear from a lot of Indians visiting Morocco yearly.
CAG stated that the high-level engagement between the 2 nations in recent times has contributed to bringing the relations on an upward trajectory by the use of intensified cooperation in a number of areas together with Counter-Terrorism, Space, Cyber, Extradition, IT, Health, and Education.
He expressed the arrogance that the current engagement between India (SAI India) and Morocco (SAI Morocco) within the area of capacity constructing in public sector audit shall lead to additional deepening of bilateral ties.
CAG of India knowledgeable that the audit establishments of India and Morocco are dedicated to enabling the achievement of the United Nations Agenda of Sustainable Development and are deeply conscious of the very advanced nature of this audit given the composite inter linkages and the cross-cutting nature of the sustainable improvement targets.
CAG additional knowledgeable that as Chair of the INTOSAI Knowledge Sharing Committee, SAI India has sought to encourage research into the sensible features of SDG auditing.
Murmu expressed his keenness to strengthen the bilateral cooperation with SAI Morocco by signing the MoU between each SAIs and dedicated to working carefully with SAI Morocco assuring them of assist and dedication to energize the capacity improvement initiatives and change of data and data between the SAIs of India and Morocco. (ANI)
