Overview
- The national conference of Public Accounts Committee chairpersons, which concluded on November 4, 2026, produced a formal set of recommendations to speed up audits and improve legislative follow-up on Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) reports.
- Delegates said C&AG reports often arrive years after spending, which makes it hard to trace actions and hold officials to account, and they recommended timebound audit delivery and mandatory placement of reports in legislatures.
- The group called for enforceable deadlines for ministries and departments to reply to PAC queries and to implement PAC recommendations so that responses are complete, timely, and trackable.
- Operational fixes proposed include appointing specialised public‑finance and audit staff to support PACs and creating a common digital dashboard to log every audit and the actions taken on its findings.
- Delegates highlighted real harms from coordination failures, citing Pre‑Matric and Post‑Matric scholarship disbursal delays of up to seven years for Scheduled Caste students, and they asked the Lok Sabha Speaker to ensure PAC reports are debated in Parliament and state assemblies.