According to the National Commission for the Review of the Working of the Constitution (NCRWC), the expectations of the people under the Indian Constitution have been disproved with the individual’s dignity at stake. Kambhampati Sastry S, who occupied positions such as Director of Audit and Accounts, and Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, takes a re-look at the image of India as Bharat as well as aspects of the Preamble and issues on primary level governance, core and national level governance, public finance and how to manage the economy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kambhampati S. Sastry
Kambhampati S Sastry served in the Government of India as a member of the IAAS (Indian Audit and Accounts Service) from 1958 to 1990. The positions he held included Director of Audit and Accounts, office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Director (Finance) in Neyveli Lignite Corporation, Accountant General, Punjab, Additional Secretary and Head of the Budget Division in the Ministry of Finance, and Founder Chairman, National Housing Bank. He was associated with nine budgets of the Government of India. He has also spoken and written on his experiences. As a middle level officer, he wrote the book Performance Budgeting for Planned Development (New Delhi: Radiant, 1979). From 1991 to 1995, Sastry was a Consultant with the IMF and in that capacity advised a number of Governments in Africa and former Soviet Union countries as Budget Adviser. From 1996, Sastry has been engaged in his own academic research, first in public finance, then in economic theory, then in political science and now in constitutional political economy. He has also been a Visiting Scholar in the University of Southern California and the Rutgers University in the US.
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