Financial Administration in India

The book covers a wide range of subjects, viz., Union-State fiscal relationship; the Finance Commission and the Planning Commission, and their respective roles in the emerging context; various stages of the budgetary process - preparation, legislative sanction, execution, a system of accounts, and audit, and system of parliamentary financial committees; analysis of the trends in the finances of the Union and State governments since 1950-51; an analytical account of the trends in and structure of public debt since 1950-51; theoretical implications of price policy of public enterprises; and the concept of performance budgeting and its implications in the Indian context.