Discussion
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India is appointed by
Answer: B
Correct answer: The President
The Comptroller and Auditor General is appointed by the President under Article 148, and holds office for six years or until the age of 65, whichever comes first. The office is deliberately insulated. The CAG can be removed only in the manner prescribed for a Supreme Court judge - by an address of both Houses on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity - the salary and conditions cannot be varied to disadvantage after appointment, and the holder is barred from any further office under the Union or a state government afterwards. The CAG audits all receipts and expenditure of the Union and the states and of bodies substantially financed from public revenues, and the reports are laid before the legislature and examined by the Public Accounts Committee. Dr Ambedkar called it the most important officer under the Constitution. Note the limit implicit in practice: despite the word Comptroller, the CAG audits after the event and has no power to authorise expenditure, unlike the British office it was modelled on.
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