Rethinking Good Governance: Holding to Account India’s Public Institutions

Category Non-Fiction
Format Hardcover
Imprint Rupa
Price 595

ISBN: 978-93-5333-631-8
Pages: 296 pages
Date: 1st September

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Public institutions support good governance, which, in turn, promotes sustainable economic
development and, thereby. nurtures the welfare of the people. The vital bond between a people
and its government is that of trust, and these public institutions help maintain that trust. They
serve as the pillars supporting the foundation of a robust and vibrant democracy.

In Rethinking Good Governance, Vinod Rai highlights the strength of each of these pillars and
analyses the circumstances that may have led to their weakening, resulting in the foundations of our democratic fabric being somewhat shaken. From numerous occasions when parliamentarians failed to adhere to the decorum expected of lawmakers in the House, the serious deficit of impartiality and integrity within the Central Bureau of Investigation, to the issue of governance that has plagued the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and the imbroglio around the perceived lack of cohesion between the government and the Reserve Bank of India, Rai reveals how each of these instances led to a gradual decline of the independence and autonomy of these institutions over the decade.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Starting his career in the Indian Administrative Service in 1972, Vinod Rai rose to become the
eleventh Comptroller and Auditor General of India in 2008. He demitted office in May 2013
after a very active and illustrious tenure.
In 2016, Rai was appointed the first chairman of the newly created Banks Board Bureau. He is
presently the Chairman of the Supreme Court-mandated Committee of Administrators of the BCCI.
Rai is a Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, in the
National University of Singapore. He is also on the Global Board of Trustees of the International
Financial Reporting Standards Foundation, London.
He has authored Not Just An Accountant, and co-edited Seven Decades of Independent India.
Rai was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2016, in recognition of his services to the nation.