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In his revealing memoir, former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg offers a glimpse into what goes on behind closed-door meetings and in the corridors of power

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We Also Make Policy

A K Bhattacharya
We Also Make Policy
Author: Subhash Chandra Garg
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 494+XXIV
Price: Rs 799

There are a handful of finance secretaries of the Union government who have suffered their tenures being cut short unceremoniously. Subhash Chandra Garg is one of them. In July 2019, he was transferred to the power ministry within days of the Union Budget being presented.

Like the transfers of Piyush Mankad to the ministry of industry in 2000 and of Arvind Mayaram to the ministry of minority affairs in 2014, Mr Garg’s transfer was seen as a sign of his falling out of favour with the government. Not surprisingly,

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