Dharam Vir <br/><br/>
Expenditure control: Some key issues in the accountability of the secretary to the Government of India 

 -  2007 
 - p.170-183. 
 - Apr-Jun 
<br/><br/> Although the Secretary was declared as the Chief Accounting Officer of the Ministry in 1976, it was only in 2005 that the duties and responsibilities of the Secretary as the Chief Accounting Authority were formally codified and notified making him fully responsible for the stewardship of the finances of the Ministry from budget construction to implementation and the achievement of objectives of its programmes and projects. But certain key issues relating to his corresponding empowerment with appropriate infrastructure and the architecture of financial management remain to be classified. - Reproduced. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Accountability - India<br/>Public expenditure - India<br/>Public expenditure