New Delhi, June 28 -- Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled Rural Internal Audit Portal, a digital platform aimed at improving financial oversight, audit efficiency and governance across the Ministry of Rural Development's programmes, according to the Ministry of Rural Development.

The ministry said the portal is a "first-of-its-kind unified digital platform for end-to-end management of internal audits covering both risk-based and compliance audits," replacing fragmented and paper-based audit processes with a technology-driven system.

According to the release, the AI-enabled platform integrates audit planning, execution, reporting, compliance management, monitor...