Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wants every UPA flagship programme independently audited by an external agency so that the progress report can be put under public scrutiny. The Prime Minister's direction to the ministries concerned came after the The Indian Express reported that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had severely criticised implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission. The CAG had cited several cases of corruption, fraud and mismanagement