CWG: Govt to respond after PAC takes view on CAG report

“The importance of the PAC cannot be undermined because somebody has wisdom to be an important political stick to beat the government. We respect the PAC and we want the PAC to locate it and we can only respond and react once the PAC has taken a view,” he said.

Asked about the “sanctity” attached to the CAG report,the minister said,“CAG report is a CAG report and there is no cause to use words like sanctity or lack of it.

“It is a CAG report. We know the importance of CAG in our entire system. But we also know the limits which the CAG can go and that limit obviously examined not by the government,but by the PAC.

“If the CAG report is acceptable to PAC,(it is) one thing. If it is not acceptable to the PAC,it is quite another thing. And what the PAC then points about the report or the material in the report,we have to wait for the PAC report in turn,” he said.