Great cleansing act

August 20, 2012 14:57

In the long run, the CAG reports will make government stronger, not weaker: it will be forced to ask the right questions.

There is a danger that the real point of the three recent CAG reports, especially on coal and the Delhi airport will be lost in a cloud of obfuscation, denial and defensiveness. The reports are raising deep and fundamental questions about governance. Taken together they amount to an incontrovertible indictment of government.

Read Pratap Bhanu Mehta's article on indianexpress.com

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