Context
The 46th Civil Accounts Day was celebrated on 2nd March 2022 at Dr Ambedkar International Center, Janpath, New Delhi.
Background
- The Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) is one of the ‘Group A’ services created in 1976 to provide accounting and auditing services to the Government of India.
- It functions through the Indian Civil Accounts Organisation under the Ministry of Finance.
- This article provides information on the roles and responsibilities, pay scales, probationary period and career prospects of ICAS.
About the Indian Civil Accounts Service
- Initially, the ICAS was carved out from the Indian Audit & Accounts Service (IA & AS), through the promulgation of an Ordinance amending the C & AG’s (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Amendment Act, 1976.
- Later, the Departmentalisation of Union Accounts (Transfer of Personnel) Act, 1976 was enacted and came into force on 01 March 1976, following which the ICAS celebrates March 1 every year as the “Civil Accounts Day”.
- ICAS helps in the delivery of financial management services for the Government of India, such as payment services, supports the tax collection system, performs government-wide accounting, financial reporting functions, preparation of budget estimates and carries out Internal Audit in civil ministries of the Union Government.
