President to inaugurate Civil Accounts Day event on Tuesday

President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate an event to commemorate 40th Civil Accounts Day on Tuesday where best performing officers will also be awarded.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will preside over the function to be organised by the office of Controller General of Accounts (CGA) under Finance Ministry, an official statement said.
Continuing the practice recognition to the best performing Principal Accounts Officers and Accounts Officers, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha will give away awards during the Valedictory Session, the statement added.
The office of CGA has taken various initiatives recently in order to improve the overall functioning and performance of its different units.

Among others, it has designed, developed, owned and implemented a sound Public Financial Management System (PFMS) by establishing a comprehensive payment, receipt and accounting network.
The Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) was constituted in 1976, consequent to a historical reform in public financial administration when the maintenance of Accounts of the Union Government was separated from that of Audit, it said.

Consequently, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India was divested with this responsibility.
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Mukherjee's chopper landed at Kedarnath helipad at 8.30 AM, where he was accorded a traditional welcome by the chairman of Mandir Samiti Ganesh Godiyal.

Garhwal commissioner Vinod Sharma, IG Sanjay Gunjyal, Ruydraprayag District Magistrate Raghav Langar and SP Prahlad Narayan Meena escorted the President and his son Abhijit Mukherjee in an All Terrain Vehicle to the temple.
They offered prayers in the sanctum sanctorum for nearly 30 minutes and performed rituals under the supervision of temple priest Shivshankar.
The President was offered a shawl and a replica of the shrine on behalf of the temple committee, an official release here said.
Briefing the President about the temple's reconstruction work, the Chief Minister said the trek route to the shrine has been made more convenient with the creation of more facilities for the pilgrims.

The yatra is safer now with tourists coming from across the country and abroad praising the efforts of the state government, Rawat said.
Over 12 lakh pilgrims have visited the chardham and Hemkund Sahib this year, he said.