Defence and security in the Indian ocean area

Teachers and students of Political Science and Public Administration in India have hitherto laboured under a severe handicap in that there was no 1 convenient source to which they could refer for full and up-to-date information regarding the organisation and functions of the machinery of our government. This volume is intended. to fill the gap in so far as the Union Government is concerned, especially its top organisation. It is hored that it will be of service not only to academic students but also to professional administrators and interested citizens. The book is divided into three parts:
Part I traces the constitutional development and the growth of the machinery of government to its present pattern as Ministries and Departments; Part II contains a detailed account of the various Central Ministries and Departments, their field agencies and offices, the special administrative agencies mentioned in the Constitution, the Cabinet Secretariat and the Planning Commission, the inter-relationships of the government. departments and agencies and the relations with the Council of Minis ters and the Cabinet being also briefly indicated; Part III gives an outline of the system of financial administration, the service structure and staffing arrangement and working conditions of the Central Government per sonnel.