CDMA - GS questions based on daily current affairs

1)   Centre for Data Management and Analytics (CDMA) has been inaugurated at

a. Nagpur
b. New Delhi
c. Bengaluru
d. Chennai
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: New Delhi

Explanation:

  • The CAG’s Centre for Data Management and Analytics (CDMA) is going to play a catalytic role to synthesise and integrate relevant data into auditing process.
  • The CDMA will help to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of evidence in the audit process.
  • CDMA aims to build up capacity in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department in Big Data Analytics to exploit the data rich environment in the Union and State Governments.
  • The Centre is to be equipped with latest analytic tools and infrastructure to assist and guide the Data Analytic Groups constituted in all audit offices of CAG across the country through setting up the data management protocols and steering the data analytic capacity of the department.
  • CAG of India is also a member of an international project on ‘Data Analytics’ under the Working Group on IT Audit of International Organisation for Supreme Audit Institutions.