Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Mr Vinod Rai, has been elected the Chairman of the United Nations' panel of external auditors.
The panel of independent external auditors carries out audits and reports periodically on the accounts and management operations of the United Nations, specialised agencies like WHO, WFP and WIPO and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the CAG said in a statement on Thursday.
Norbert Hauser, who is the Vice-President of the Federal Court of Auditors, Germany. In addition, CAG Director General, Mr Jagbans Singh, has been elected the Chairman of the Technical Group of the panel. The panel, which was formed through a resolution by the General Assembly in 1959, comprises individual external auditors who are the heads of supreme audit institutions of various countries.