abstract:Comptroller and auditor-general is the title of a government official in jurisdictions including the UK, Ireland and India. A comptroller is responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization.
In similar fashion, in early January, when the country was still reeling from disastrous floods, the assembly quietly appointed a host of the president's nominees to head supposedly independent state institutions, ranging from the Supreme Court to the Central Bank, and including the ombudsman, the attorney-general and the comptroller (national auditor).