First woman from Northeast to helm Director General Audit Post

IMPHAL: Rina Akoijam, an IA&AS (The Indian Audit & Accounts Service officer took over as Director General of Audit (Infrastructure) in New Delhi on Thursday.

IA&AS is a formalized civil service (Group A) of the Union of India. It forms the middle and top-level management of the organization, through which the CAG (Comptroller & Auditor General of India) exercises its mandate.

Rina previously served as the Principal Director of Commercial Audit & ex -officio Member Audit Board-Ill, New Delhi; Accountant General (Audit), Sikkim; Principal Director (Central Excise), Principal Director (Northern Region), and Principal Director (GASAB) in the Comptroller & Auditor General of India's office in New Delhi.

She also worked as a project manager for the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) in Oslo (Norway), where she oversaw capacity development programmes for Supreme Audit Institutions throughout the Asia-Pacific region. She has extensive experience auditing the public sector for both the Central and State governments in Meghalaya, Assam, Manipur, Sikkim, West Bengal, and New Delhi. She had also performed international audits, such as those of UNICEF headquarters in New York, the UNICEF Supplies Division in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Cooperative Audits in the Pacific Region.

She is an INTOSAI-certified training expert who has served as a resource person in a number of national and international programmes. She has completed Financial Attestation Audit training at the National Audit Office in London, UK (2006) and a Management Development Programme on Public Policy and Management at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley (2014).

Akoijam Rina is the eldest daughter of Akoijam Ranbir and Chitrasakhi of Kwakeithel Nganapithong Village. She was a gold medalist in the matriculation exam and topped the list of successful candidates in Manipur in 1986 as a student at Little Flower School in Imphal. Following that, she graduated from Delhi Public School, RK Puram, and went on to complete her degree and post-graduation in English Literature at Delhi University before entering the government services in 1997. (Agencies)

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