Indian Governance: An Insider’s View (In 2 Volumes)

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This book is not an abstract description of Indian Governance – it is based on the author’s experience in each of the areas covered. Some of the major areas analysed:

. The municipal property tax to be levied objectively without corruption suggestion upheld by the Supreme Court and followed all over India.

. Reforms for improving the performance of the Public sector.

. Suggestions by the Disincestment Commission regarding Air India which was in financial trouble.

. Rajection of controversial foreign investment by Enron has been explained.

. Ideas for improving investor benefits in the Capital market.

. Events leading to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and India’s role in it.

. Conservation of rain water by making farm ponds to improve the income of farmers. This has been implemented in Tamil Nadu.

. Skill development of young men and women in construction activity such as carpentry, electricity and plumbing – under CIDC in collabration with State governments.

. Education and family welfare meadures for young women.

. Author’s article on the economic value of the cow published in the U.N. Journal in 1983.

. Some of the policy measures suggested in this book have since been implemented by the government.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR G.V. Ramakrishna

G.V. Ramakrishna (b. 1930) started his career as a biochemist with the Rockefeller Foundation doing research in Haematology in the Bowring Hospital in bangalore, his home town. He opted for the civil service and the IAS in 1952. He did his quota of service in the state of Andhra Pradesh for nearly 13 years, ending up as Chief Secretary in 1983. At the Centre he held position on every level, ranging from Under Secretary to Secretary. Early in his career he went to Harvard University for his MPA (Master in Public Administration) that included a business policy course at the Business School. He studied Economics under Galbraith, Ed Mason and other notable economists of the late fifties. In his diplomatic assignments, he was minister of economic affairs at the Embassy in Washington in 1972 and was later India's Ambassador to the European Economic Community (European Union) in 1989. In his varied career he worked for ten years with the Finance Minister. He also worked in the Ministries of Industry, Steel, Coal and Petroleum. He was Advisor in the Planning Commission in 1981 and member in 1994. He was the first Chairman of SEBI and also of Disinvestment Commission.