As the issue of fiscal autonomy of State is rather more complex in the process of globalisation and liberalization, the division of functions and the fiscal resources amongst the various layers of government is an essential feature of the Indian fiscal federalism. In Indian Union-State Financial Relations the mismatches are sought to be removed through the vertical and horizontal devolutions from the Union to the State via various mechanisms like Planning Commission, Finance Commission and the Union Ministries. Twelfth Finance Commission headed by Dr. C. Rangaranjan is also expected to play crucial role in this regard. This path-breaking book is one of the first to explore and explain and to provide a fresh new analysis of fiscal federalism in present form of state union financial conflicts. This timely and thought-provoking volume presents a number of problems with valuable suggestions related to sound and better Union-State financial relations in new perspective. It aims at to provide a broader understanding and review of the subject-matter designed and structured into eight significant chapters. Authored by a master writer and evaluator this book will be of immense interest and use to teachers and students of Economics, public economics especially finance, Commerce and Management; researchers, planners and policy makers as it is a systematic, comprehensive, critical and authoritative overview of the subject enriched with up-to-date materials.

The book is essentially an offbeat effort at critically analysing the parliamentary accountability of public enterprises through parliamentary committee on public undertakings in global perspective particularly at the age of economic liberalisation. It has been well written in a simple and lucid language. It also represents globally significant issues in a comprehensive and coherent manner and investigates the evolution of various issues containing parliamentary committee, i.e., Public Accounts Committee; Estimate Committee and Committee of Public Undertakings at the present age of public sector reform since the parliament is the real custodian and trustee of the nation and the constitution. The Parliamentary committees play an important and useful role in the working pf parliament all over the world. The book briefly surveys the structure, types, composition, functions and relevance of parliamentary Committee in India, U.K, U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania etc.

This book focuses, though various papers of learned contributors, the main challenges before Indian Banking Sector during post-reform period with a decadal analysis and bird's eye views. It mirrors the main issues like restructuring, new role in the changed scenario, management of NPAs, competition and consolidation, merger process, acceleration of productivity and profitability, asset-liability management production norms improving customer service ameliorating Public grievances proposed Basel Capital Accord, risk-management risk-based supervision, deregulation interest rates, grant of financial autonomy in the area of credit, entry of foreign banks, emergence of new private banks, universal banking, promotion of technology, human resource policies, post-VRS condition, capital adequacy framework, settlement risk, transparency etc. prevailing in the present new millennium in a very systematic and comprehensive manner and in a simple lucid, critical and analytical style. This book shall be useful to all concerned especially to the researchers, teachers, students of economics and commerce and employees of banking sector, policy-makers etc.

The present book contains the articles on some important and crucial topics pertaining to mass communication and journalism. The main themes elaborately discussed are: Economics of Mass Communication; Professional Organisation of Mass Communicators; Television; Journalist-Historian of Today; Power of News Media; Underdeveloped Journalism; Press and Public Service; Newspapers vs. Electronic Media; Right to Information; Rights of Free Press; Reporting on Polls; Magazines and the News; and the Nature of Mass Communication, etc. The book will be immensely useful and informative for the researchers and academics in the field besides working journalist community.