CAG Audit process to be fully digitalised from April 1, 2023
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Girish Chandra Murmu, on March 31 announced full activation of the One Indian Audit & Accounts Department One System (OIOS), a web-enabled IT application with support for multiple languages, offline functionality and a mobile app, for complete digitalisation of the audit process from April 1, 2023. It was informed that all new audit work in the institution would take place only through the application and physical paper-based workflow would cease from Saturday onwards. The only exception would be the Defence Audit offices which would take some more time because of security issues. From 01.04.2023 onwards, the digitisation process would be irreversible.
As per the CAG, the efforts to adopt the IT application had started in 2019. The OIOS roll-out process involved work relating to master data, audit design, audit execution, legacy data migration, knowledge management system, quality assurance/quality control, audit products, communication and follow-up.
As a mid-term goal in the coming five to seven years, the CAG chief set the target of establishing the infrastructure processes for new and emerging areas of IT, such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and developing capabilities to harness their potential for audit purposes.
