If the PAC takes up the CAG report on LPG subsidy issue, it will be the first major scrutiny of any Modi government scheme by Parliament’s audit watchdog. “Once the CAG report is before Parliament, the PAC can take it up. The CAG report attributes the huge savings instead to the dramatic fall in prices of LPG that India imports. Soon after the CAG report had come into media glare, some non-BJP members of the PAC had approached the chairman demanding that the panel take it up. Members from the BJP dominate the PAC, which is headed by senior Congress leader K V Thomas.

Source: Indian Express July 21, 2016 20:03 UTC