The Indian Audit and Accounts Department (IAAD) offices in Shillong commemorated the third Audit Diwas with a series of events, which concluded yesterday.
Audit Diwas is being celebrated to mark the history and heritage of the Supreme Audit Institution of India.
The concluding day of the audit week celebrations was held at the office of the Pr Accountant General (A&E), here in which CH Kharshiing Pr Accountant General (A&E) and Shefali S Andaleeb Pr Accountant General (Audit) & Director General, Regional Capacity Building and Knowledge Institute spoke on the significance of the event and the role played by the CAG’s in holding the executive accountable through its role as mandated in the India Constitution.
While delivering his speech on the role of Space Technology for development of NER Dr S.P. Aggarwal, Director of NESAC mentioned about the huge strides made the Indian Space Research Organisation in making India one of the world leaders in this Sector. He also indicated areas where spatial technology could be used in improving audit processes and techniques.
Dr Dibyajyoti Chutia, Head, GID, NESAC spoke on the role of ICT enabled Geospatial Technology towards empowering Governance activities in NER, while Nilay Nishant Scientist-SE, GID, NESAC gave a live demonstration of the North East Spatial Data Repository (NeSDR) and its various tools and analytics for governance and monitoring services.
The finals of the inter-college quiz competition were also held on the occasion. St Anthony’s College represented by Christina Themsingphi A.S. and Debashish Kakati emerged the winners with K L BajoriaCollege represented by Dondor Nongrum and Kenneth Lalringlien as the first runners-up and Marbiangdor Syiem and Aiborlang Marbaniang from Shillong Law College as the second runners-up.
