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Vinod Rai (born May 23, 1948) is the present Comptroller and Auditor General of India. He assumed office on 7 January 2008. He holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Delhi, and Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University. He, a rare breed among civil servants is fearlessly showing up deficiencies of government as he is empowered by the terms of his employment, which mandate a six-year term, till 2014, that can be cut short only by impeachment.<br />
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He hails from Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh. He did his schooling from Vidya Niketan - Birla Public School - BPS Pilani Rajasthan.</div>
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Mr Rai is a 1972 batch Kerala cadre officer of Indian Administrative Service (IAS). He started his career as the sub-collector of Thrissur District. Later he became the Collector and spent his eight years of career inThrissur City. Thrissurians call him as the second Sakthan Thampuran for his service to the Thrissur City. He was the MD of Kerala State Co-operative Marketing Federation from 1977 to 1980. Later he was appointed as Principal Secretary (Finance) in the State Government of Kerala. He had served senior positions in the Ministries of Commerce and Defence, Government of India. Prior to his appointment as CAG, he served as Secretary, Financial Services and Additional Secretary in the Banking Division including banks and insurance companies under Ministry of Finance. Mr. Rai was instrumental in setting up the India Infrastructure Finance Company and was also on the Board of this company. Apart from serving in both, state and central governments, he has been a Director on several Boards including the State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, Life Insurance Corporation of India and Infrastructure Development and Finance Company of India.<br />
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He is currently chairman of U.N. Panel of External Auditors and member of the Governing Board of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI). He has taken over as the chairman of Governing Board of the Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI) on 29th February <br />
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Main article: 2G Spectrum scam</div>
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He is widely credited for the report on issue of Licences and Allocation of 2G Spectrum which resulted in a huge controversy in the entire country. The report estimated that there was a presumptive loss of <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Indian_Rupee_symbol.svg/7px-Indian_Rupee_symbol.svg.png" />176,645 crore (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar">US$</a>31.97 billion).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Rai#cite_note-7">[8]</a> In a chargesheet filed on 2 April 2011 by the investigating agencyCentral Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the agency pegged the loss at <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Indian_Rupee_symbol.svg/7px-Indian_Rupee_symbol.svg.png" />30,984.55 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore">crore</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar">US$</a>5.61 billion) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Rai#cite_note-Indiatimes_2G_loss-8">[9]</a><br />
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All the speculations of profit, loss and no-loss were put to rest on 2 February 2012 when the Supreme Court of India on a public interest litigation (PIL) declared allotment of spectrum as "unconstitutional and arbitrary" and quashed all the 122 licenses issued in 2008 during tenure of A. Raja (then minister for communications & IT) the main accused.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Rai#cite_note-SC_quashes_122_licences-9">[10]</a> The court further said that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Raja">A. Raja</a> "wanted to favour some companies at the cost of the public exchequer" and "virtually gifted away important national asset".<br />
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Revenue loss calculation was further established on 3 August 2012 when according to the directions of the Supreme Court, Govt of India revised the spectrum price to <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Indian_Rupee_symbol.svg/7px-Indian_Rupee_symbol.svg.png" />14,000 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore">crore</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar">US$</a>2.53 billion)<br />
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Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Mining_Scam" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Coal Mining Scam">Coal Mining Scam</a></div>
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Vinod Rai IAS ( Comptroller and Auditor General of India)

Vinod Rai (born May 23, 1948) is the present Comptroller and Auditor General of India. He assumed office on 7 January 2008. He holds a Ma...

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She may probably be the first nurse to get into the hallowed Civil Service and she is excited that her success would inspire more professional nurses to take the road to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).<br /><br />Annies Kanmani Joy (26), who hails from a farmer's family of Pampakuda in Ernakulam district, has secured the 65th rank in the just-published Civil Service Exam results. Ms. Joy, who holds a B. Sc. (Nursing) degree from the Trivandrum Medical College, is the daughter of Parappalil Joy and Leela.<br /><br />She was placed at 580th position in last year's Civil Service exam and selected as a member of the Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS). She is now undergoing ICAS training in Faridabad, Haryana. She was keen on getting into the IAS and hence opted to try her luck again and came out with flying colours.<br /><br />Ms. Joy told Press by phone from Faridabad that since there were 85 vacancies of IAS officers in the general category this year, she was confident of getting recruited for the IAS as she could secure the 65th rank. To her knowledge, Ms. Joy said, she was the first professional nurse to be selected for the position.<br /><br />Ms. Joy started working for the examination only after she passed out of the medical college as she was not aware that one could take the Civil Service exam after a nursing degree. She had opted Psychology and Malayalam Literature as her optional subjects for the Civil Service exam.<br /><br />After her four-year BSc. (Nursing) and one-year internship, Ms. Joy had trained for sometime at the Kerala Civil Service Academy, Thiruvananthapuram. Though she had done well at the nursing exam, she had never worked as a nurse. Ms. Joy's younger sister is doing her MSc. (Nursing) at Belgaum, Karnataka.<br /><br />Her mother Leela told Press that Ms. Joy was very hard-working and ambitious. Her daughter had no role model either in her family or in her husband's family, she said.<div>
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<br /><br />Ms. Joy's victory has warmed the hearts of the legion of nurses from Kerala who serve all over the world, including the far-flung towns of Africa. Kerala nurses are esteemed for their professional skill, competence and compassion in Europe and the U.S. However, in Kerala, outside the government sector, nurses are paid abysmally low wages, forcing them to go on strike at many reputed hospitals.<br /><br />The S. Balaraman Committee, appointed by the UDF government, last week came up with a report recommending massive hike in their salaries, better service conditions and the scrapping of the obnoxious ‘bond system' that tethered the nurses to the hospitals where they work for years.<br /><br />The authorities in Pampakuda are planning to give a reception to Ms. Joy when she visits her home.<div>
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Annies Kanmani Joy : Nurse creates history, cracks IAS exam

She may probably be the first nurse to get into the hallowed Civil Service and she is excited that her success would inspire more pro...

Vinod Rai IAS ( Comptroller and Auditor General of India)

Annies Kanmani Joy : Nurse creates history, cracks IAS exam

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