Overview
- The Central Revenue Audit and Central Expenditure Audit cadres will become operational on January 1, 2026 with separate SAS exam streams and more than 4,000 audit staff consolidated.
- Cadre control shifts from 16 and 19 authorities to one central authority per vertical, with the Finance and Communication Audit stream merged into the expenditure cadre.
- The auditor will conduct four Railways audits in 2025–26 covering multimodal transport and logistics, sustainable rail transport, suburban services performance, and an IT audit of the e‑procurement system.
- The multimodal review will examine the National Rail Plan 2021–2030, regulatory and legal frameworks, logistics operations, digitisation, and ease of doing business across nine zones, three ministries, logistics PSUs, O‑D pairs, and key freight corridors.
- An Integrated Audit Group is in place and IIM Mumbai is engaged as knowledge partner, with reports targeted for tabling in the Monsoon and Winter Sessions of 2026.