Question: Recently who has been appointed as the New Controller General of Accounts (CGA)?
(a) Boyapati Venkat Sudhakar
(b) Anant Narayan Nanda
(c) Anthony Lianzuala
(d) Upma Shrivastav
Ans (c)
Related facts:
- On May 01, 2017 Anthony Lianzuala took over as the New Controller General of Accounts (CGA).
- Government of India had appointed Mr. Anthony Lianzuala, a 1982-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) Officer, as the new Controller General of Accounts (CGA), Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.
- He will be the First person from the North-Eastern Region to hold this position.
- Before this he worked at higher positions in the Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT), Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Rural Development.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=161418
http://www.cga.nic.in/Page/cga.aspx
http://bureaucracybuzz.com/2017/05/01/anthony-lianzuala-takes-over-as-the-new-controller-general-of-accounts-cga/