The Administrative Reforms Commission in its report on 'Finance Accounts and Audit' highlighted the problem and observed that: 'The Control of the Finance Minister' over public expenditure is exercised, in the main, three stages: What are these? 1. Approval of programmes or policies in principle2. Acceptance of provision in the budget estimates, and3. Prior sanction to incurring of expenditure subject to such power as have been delegated to the administrative ministries4. Administration has to provide the machinerySelect the correct codes:

India is a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic with a Parliamentary form of government which is federal in structure with unitary features. There is a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minster as its head to advice the President who is the constitutional head of the country.
Public policy generally consists of the set of actions—plans, laws, and behaviours—adopted by a government.