Today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke at an event ‘Audit Diwas’ organized by the CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General).Here, he said that “data is the future” and that his government had minimized governmental interference under the motto ‘minimum government, maximum government’. He highlighted that his government had brought in transparency to various procedures and streamlined systems of financial regulation, customs, etc.

Modi said: “Today we are making such a system in which the thinking of ‘Sarkar Sarvam’, the interference of the government is also decreasing, and your work is also getting easier. Minimum government, maximum governance”.

He said that the present government is receptive to the inputs and cooperation with the CAG as opposed to previous dispensations who had a “government vs. CAG” mindset.