President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate a conference on counter-terrorism in Jaipur tomorrow.
The counter-terrorism conference is being organised by India Foundation in collaboration with Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice, Jodhpur, a press release issued today by the President's office said.
The conference will bring together counter-terrorism practitioners, policy makers and intellectuals from India and abroad, it said.
The first counter-terrorism conference was held in March, 2015 at Jaipur.
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Meanwhile, a report from Jaipur said that the Chief Executive of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah will deliver the special keynote address in the counter terrorism conference.
Over 250 intellectuals, academics and scholars from India and other parts of the world will attend the conference which has the theme 'Tackling Global Terror Outfits,' a release said here.
The conference will bring together field operatives, senior officials from security agencies, policy makers, scholars and government leaders involved in counter-terrorism operations, planning and sensitization.
The conference will emphasis on understanding the phenomenon of the mushrooming terror outfits in the Middle East and its neighbourhood, their methodology, motivation and resources.
The inaugural event will be attended by the Governorof Rajasthan Kalyan Singh,Chief MinisterVasundhara Raje, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and former Army Chief VP Malik.
The Valedictory session on February 3 will be chaired byRajasthan GovernorandUnion Home Minister Rajnath Singh will be the Chief Guest while Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Malaysia Datuk Nur Juzlan Mohamed will give a special address at the session.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh Shahriar Alam will deliver special lectures at the conference.
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Putting the decision of separating accounts from audit in a perspective, Mukherjee said, "the founding fathers of our Constitution placed significant importance on accounts and audit of the Union Government and States.
"Several constitutional provisions prescribe for the financial accountability of the Executive to Parliament, and the financial management of the affairs of the Union and the States," he said.
Government recognised that if the process of development is to be speeded up, and plans and programmes are to be properly implemented, reforms had become necessary in the field of public financial administration, he said, adding separation of accounts from audit was therefore clearly the right decision to take.
He emphasised on the need of e-Governance initiatives to fulfil the dream of becoming a welfare nation.
