Shri Satish Kumar Garg
Principal Accountant General is an officer of the 1994 Batch of the Indian Audit & Accounts Service.
Shri Satish Kumar Garg belongs to the 1994 batch of Indian Audit & Accounts Service (IAAS). Since April 2022, he is posted in Kolkata as Principal Accountant General (Audit), West Bengal. He has the responsibility of auditing the revenue and the expenditure of the State of West Bengal. Earlier, he has gone through postings across the country at different offices of the Comptroller & Auditor-General of India such as Shimla, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Agartala, Kohima, and Allahabad. He has contributed in various fields of Government Accounting and Auditing of the expenditures and revenues of the State Governments, the Railways, and the Telecom Departments. At his instance, Railways and Telecom departments made significant changes in their material procurement processes. Based on his advice and audit findings, the State Governments discontinued irregular accounting of receipts and payments of public funds which helped improvement in the public financial management system. At the international level, he has conducted audit of international institutions such as United Nations and its Agencies in Germany, Ethiopia, Thailand and Western Sahara. He has also audited the Embassy of India, Nepal at Kathmandu (one of the largest Indian Mission). He has gone through trainings at National Audit Office (NAO), UK at London and Management Development Program at Berkeley University, California in USA.
He had qualified as a Chartered Accountant in November, 1988 with an AIR 12. He is also a Company Secretary with 1st rank in the Eastern Region (December 1990) and an LL.B. from Delhi University (1995). He has also working experience in the corporate sector. He has worked with Essar Steel at Hazira (Gujarat) and M/s. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) at New Delhi from the year 1988 to 1994.
A brief profile of the charges handled by him in IA & AD at Senior Management capacity (Director and above) is as under
| Posts held | Period |
| Pr. Accountant General (A&E), Himachal Pradesh, Shimla | June 2019 - April 2022 |
| Pr. Director of Audit, Railways Production Unit & Metro Rly, Kolkata | July 2015 - May 2019 |
| Sr. Deputy Accountant General, O/o of the Pr. AG (Tripura), Agartala | December 2009 - June 2015 |
| Sr. Deputy Accountant General (A&E), O/o Accountant General, Nagaland, Kohima | April 2008 - December 2009 |
| Sr. Deputy Accountant General, O/o Principal Accountant General (Audit), Gujarat, Ahmedabad | August 2005 - April 2008 |
| Director (P&T) Audit, Mumbai | April 2001 - July 2005 |