Financing Cities in India: Municipal Reforms, Fiscal Accountability and Urban Infrastructure Review P.K. Mohanty’s Financing Cities in India is a timely intervention that seeks to address this growing sense of frustration among citizens living in urban India. (The Hindu, 26 March 2017) 				    	 					         		         		         	                  	         		About the Author Prasanna K. Mohanty is Chair Professor of Economics at the University of Hyderabad and also Honorary Executive Chair at the National Institute of Urban Management and Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad.  An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, Dr Mohanty retired as Chief Secretary to the Government of Andhra Pradesh in June 2014. He was earlier Mission Director, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, Government of India and Municipal Commissioner of Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad metropolitan cities.  He has a PhD in Economics from Boston University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow, Economics, in Harvard University. He has authored Cities and Public Policy: An Urban Agenda for India (2014) and edited Urbanisation in India: Challenges, Opportunities and the Way Forward (2014), both published by SAGE Publications.