Jerry Rao , Audit and Konkan Railway
Jerry Rao wrote very nicely about Audit and am glad to know about his father Shri Ranga. " Our tamper-resistant institutions.......Jaithirth Rao jerry.rao@expressindia.com Many of our independent institutions have been buffeted by crises, and survived. If only we let them" Very positive and re-assuring article of faith for us. The respect due to these constitutional institutions like CAG, for enforcing checks and balances in the system, is of late not given by the executives. More often than not they find ways of circumventing them and also find soft ways to seduce them too to turn a blind eye selectively to the executives' actions of commission and omission. When I was designing and implementing my own dream Railway Applications Package, in Konkan Railway, which has as its motto that every single data entry shall be done only once , but influences various algorithms where the data is required, that is train operation, real time control charts, instructions to station ...