“Criiticising the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said the under-development plane has ‘shortfalls’ with limited ‘operational capabilities’ and is ‘overweight’ with issues of its survivability....”. http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/cag-tejas-has-limited-operational-capability/78177.html
Incidentally a 'comptroller' is a management level position responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization and an 'auditor' is a person appointed and authorized to examine accounts and accounting records, compare the charges with the vouchers, verify balance sheet and income items, and state the results.
The current incumbent of the post of CAG may have had invaluable experience of working as Secretary Defence & Secretary Defence Production, but one feels that it would not be correct to assume that the mandate of the of the CAG is to do a technical evaluation of aircrafts. One would suggest, with utmost respect to this Consitutional Authority to let a committee of technical experts be appointed to look into the technical aspects if considered necessary by the Government or the Parliment and CAG limit his advice to his core responsibilities-accounting and auditing matters.
