1. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) Comment: “Market emerges as the new god to reorder both domestic and international economy”.
(b) Comment: “New Public Management, an antithesis approach to Development Administration.”
(c) Comment: “Role of Mass Media in promoting accountability and Control”.
(d) Comment: “ The public-private partnership model has emerged as the favoured model of project execution in India”.

2. Write short notes on the following: 15 × 4 = 60 Marks
(a) Public-Private dichotomy
(b) Environment and Organisation
(c) Matrix Organisation
(d) The Garbage Can Model

3. Discuss the development of regulatory commissions and case for and against its independence. 60 Marks

4. What do you mean by Participative Management? Critically examine the various proponents of Participative Management theory. 60 Marks

5. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) Comment: “Development here implies the effort for the transformation of an unequal ,unjust, socio-economic system into a system which is capable of restoring the dignity and self-respect of everyman”.
(b) Comment: “Anti-development thesis basically stems out from F W Riggs‘s diffraction idea.”
(c) Comment: “There is no empirical evidence tosuggest a causal relationship between a balanced polity and superior administrative performance.”
(d) Comment: “Policy science,which is emerging as a separate field,is encountering many problems, hindering its growth”.

6. From Macaulay committee to Y K Alagh committee discuss the evolution of recruitment policy and selection methods in Civil services examinations in India. 60 Marks

7. Write short notes on the following: 15 × 4 = 60Marks
(a) Critical Path Method
(b) Postmodernism and Public Administration
(c) E-Government Vs. E-Governance
(d) Women and development

8. Discuss the nature, scope and significance of Public Policy,and gaps and problems in Public Policy Implementation, and approaches and techniques of Policy Monitoring and Policy Evaluation. 60 Marks

1. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) Comment: ‘The role of public sector has been changing tremendously in the context of liberalization”.
(b) Comment: ‘The departmental public undertakings have necessarily been placed under the full control of the government and parliament”.
(c) Comment:” National Development Council, it seems, is like a super-cabinet”.
(d) Comment:” Although District Planning Committee and Metropolitan Planning Committees have been provided, those remain mostly on paper”.

2. Discuss the major problems of management and working of Public Sector Undertaking is India . Give suggestions in the light of liberalization policy to improve their performance. 60 Marks

3. Discuss the changing role of Planning Commission in the era of ‘Indicative Planning’. 60 Marks

4. Discuss the planning procedures and problems at the state and sub-state levels. 60 Marks

5. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) Comment: ‘After the creation of the Planning Commission, the role of the Finance Commission has started diminishing’.
(b) Comment: “Effective implementation of plan projects has been the weakest link in the chain of the entire planning program”.
(c) Comment: “The CAG is the friend, philosopher and guide of Public Accounts Committee.”
(d) Comment: “Public Accounts Committee of Parliament is the real watch dog of the financer of Union Government.”

6. (a) “Audit provides a healthy safeguard against public money going down the drain.” Explain
(b) “The role of CAG is a limited one” Elucidate.30 × 2 = 60 Marks

7. Discuss the various means available for legislative control over Public Administration. What have you to suggest to make legislative control over public administration healthy and purposeful? 60 Marks

8. “In so far as budgeting is successful or otherwise ,it depends not only on its internal workings but upon the environment in which it operates.” Explain. 60 Marks

1. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) Comment: “Central Services are more `All-India’ in character than are the All-India Services”.
(b) Comment: “The institution of ‘Lok Pal’ in India is likely to confront a different set of problems as compared to the set of problems experienced by the ‘Lokayuktas’ in the past.”
(c) Comment: “One of the most distinctive characteristics of Indian Administrative Service is its multipurpose character”.
(d) Comment: “Generalism in Civil Service is a powerful bulwark against committed bureaucracy”.

2 (a) Discuss the recommendations of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission on reforming the Civil services. 30 Marks
(b) “Corruption is more of an environmental than an administrative problem”Discuss. 30 Marks

3. What do you understand by ‘People’s participation in administration’? Suggest measures to sensitise administrators to citizen’s grievances and enlist co-operation from voluntary agencies. 60 Marks

4. It is argued that the recruitment and training of All India and Central Services have not kept pace with the changing needs and time. Give suggestions for improving these processes in order to make administrators more effective, committed and honest. 60 Marks

5. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) Comment: “Maintenance of law and order is a State subject but the Union Government can deploy armed forces in any state”.
(b) Comment: “The word ‘Police’ in the title of the Central Reserve Police Force and the Indo- Tibetan Border Police is a misnomer.”
(c) Comment: “Most administrative reforms have a political cost.”
(d) Comment: “Administrative Reforms in India are not necessarily the result of the recommendations of any specific committees or commissions”.

6. “Criminalisation of politics and administration in India has been extended to politicization of criminals”. Discuss. 60 Marks

7. Do you agree with the view that the Indian reform effort has been conservative or orthodox ,not breaking radically but only modifying the existing structures and process? Give arguments. 60 Marks

8. Write brief recommendations of following: 15 × 4 = 60 Marks
(a) Surinder Nath Committee
(b) B N Yugandhar Committee
(c) P C Hota Committee
(d) Punchhi Commission

1. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) Comment:” The Governor of a State wears two hats, and therefore, dilemmas have arisen in practice”.
(b) Comment: “It is a major challenge to balance the role of District Collector with the powers of democratic bodies”.
(c) Comment: “District Administration is like a small tortoise carrying the load of an elephant”.
(d) Comment: “The legislative and financial relations between Union and State governments are more biased towards Union government”.

2. The role of local self-government in the state administration is of considerable importance. Evaluate the statement in the context of the changes after 73rd and 74th amendments. 60 Marks

3 (a) “State Directorates are administrative and implementation units assisting the Department functioning from the Secretariat’. Explain. 30 Marks
(b) “In the Chief Secretary, the State Government has an officer whose counterpart does not available in the Union Government”. Elucidate. 30 Marks

4. Critically review the evolving relationship between the district magistrate and the superintendent of police in the field of law and order management in a district”. 60 Marks

5. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) Comment: “Special development programmes seek to solve special problems, but their successful implementation depends on complex inter-institutional linkages”.
(b) Comment: ‘NGOs are fast replacing the government in the implementation of a large number of programmes’.
(c) Comment: “As such for district plan to be meaningful, there has to be a District list”
(d) “The District Rural Development Agency is presently serving as the nodal agency of rural development at the district level”. Comment.

6. “Do you think that the Constitutionalisation of three-tier Federalism in India will be a viable model for a future liberal democracy.” Describe 60 Marks

7. “The position of Governors towards exercising their discretion and powers has considerably changed after 1967”.Discuss. 60 Marks

8. “The Chief Minister symbolizes ruling power structure and is the real executive head of the State Government.” Discuss the above statement in the light of his position in present Coalition Government. 60 Marks

1. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) Comment: “The Arthashastra is India’s oldest complete text on Public Administration”.
(b) Comment: “Kautilya’s Arthashastra has significant relevance to the contemporary Indian administration”.
(c) Comment: ‘The Mughal Administrative system was a military rule by nature and was centralized despotism”.
(d) Comment: “The period of British rule generated most of the structural and behavioral values of Indian Administration not by imitation but through interaction”.

2. Indian federalism is described as federal in form but unitary in spirit”.Discuss. 60 Marks

3. ‘The Indian Constitution considerably influences the nature, role and structure of Indian administration”. Elucidate. 60 Marks

4. “The Central Secretariat is a policy formulating coordinating and supervisory agency besides being the principal executive agency of the government”. Explain. 60 Marks

5. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3=60 Marks
(a) Comment: “The use of the word `Socialist” in the Indian Constitution has become redundant in the context of the liberalized economy”.
(b) Comment: “In India, Prime Minister carries de facto powers of the Union Government.”
(c) Comment: “ In India, President has some special powers where he has to act upon his discretion”.
(d) Comment: “ Indian Constitution conferred supreme power to the President”.

6. “The Secretariat system of work has lent balance, consistency and continuity to the administration and serves as a nucleus for the total machinery of a ministry. The concept of Secretariat and Directorate method of working revived the hidden differences between Generalist Vs Specialist” .Explain. 60 Marks

7. “Rather than describing the Prime Minister’s position through phrases, it is better to examine how the office of the Prime Minister has actually evolved over time “. Explain 60 Marks

8. (a) The Planning Commission should reinvent itself a systems reforms commission in the backdrop of changed global domestic scenarios. Discuss 30 Marks
(b) “The essential purpose of Cabinet Committee is to relieve the cabinet of some burden of work”. Discuss. 30 Marks

1. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) Comment: “Executive control over administration is much more real.”
(b) Comment: “The basic question in the relationship between political and permanent executives is the separation of facts and values at the operational level.”
(c) Comment: Recruitment is the backbone of Public Administration.
(d) Comment: Civil Service neutrality is thing of past.

2. To what extent has the human relations movement contributed to the knowledge and practice within the field of personnel administration? 60 Marks

3. Describe the methods by which the Public Accounts Committee and the Estimates Committee control administration. 60 Marks

4. Examine the government budget as an instrument of public policy and a tool of legislative control. 60 Marks

5. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) Auditing in Government is an exercise in post-mortem.Comment.
(b) Whitleyism represents a typical British response to Trade Unionism by Public Servants. Comment.
(c) The entire process of development and nation  building hinges on the effectiveness of administrative reforms. Comment.
(d) The budget is an instrument of Coordination. Comment.

6. Bring out the importance of O & M. Do you think that there should be a separate O & M organization? 60 Marks

7. Analyse the constitutional ,political and operational dimensions of employer –employee relations. What are your suggestions to bring about a satisfactory relationship between them? 60 Marks

8. Explain the principles involved in the preparation of budget. Asses the scope of budgetary techniques in financial management. 60 Marks

1 Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) “The distinction between line and staff is relative rather than absolute.” Comment.
(b) “ In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence”. Comment.
(c) “Autonomy and accountability in Public enterprises cannot walk together.” Comment.
(d) “Dicey was wrong not only in his concept of the rule of law, but he also overlooked the significance of the administrative law.” – Comment.

2 (a) A Public Corporation is a combination of public ownership, public accountability and business managements for public ends.Discuss. 30 Marks
(b) Headquarter and field relationship determines the tender of implementation of programmes. Discuss. 30 Marks

3. Describe the changing profile of development administration and identify its efforts towards people’s empowerment and environmental concern. 60 Marks

4. Define Public Policy. How does its formulation and implementation involve participation by administrators, voluntary agencies and pressure groups in a democracy? 60 Marks 

5. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) Delegated Legislation is not absolute. Comment.
(b) Committed bureaucracy is unsuitable in a Parliamentary democracy. Comment.
(c) Public Policy is what politics is about. Substantiate.
(d) Rigg’s key concepts have altered the researcher that Weberian bureaucracy might not be entirely predictive of behaviour in most Third World Countries. Comment.

6. Bazar Canteen Model developed by Riggs, truly explains emerging nexus among politicians, traders, criminals and bureaucrats in India. Examine critically.

7. Effectiveness and Utility of Central and State Administrative Tribunals. Discuss. 60 Marks

8. Discuss the major conceptual approaches to the study of Comparative Public Administration and explain how Marx Weber is considered to be the foremost mentor in the field. 60 Marks

1. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) “Mary Parker Follett was far ahead of her times.” Comment
(b) “ ‘Consensus’ and ‘Unanimity’ are used as styles in decision – making.” Comment.
(c) “Administrative efficiency is enhanced by keeping at a minimum the number of organizational levels through which a mater must pass before it is acted upon.” – (Herbert A. Simon). Comment.
(d) “Modifications of basic findings of Elton Mayo by Behavioural Scientists.” Comment.

2. Critically examine the models of Max Weber and Chester I. Barnard with reference to ‘bureaucratic authority.’ 60 Marks

3 (a) Examine the basic postulates of the Human Relations Theory and show how far it differs from the classical theory of organizations. 30 Marks
(b) Rabble hypothesis cannot be totally rejected in present metro society of India. Analyze.30 Marks

4. ”Frederick Herzberg’s Two-factor theory is more or less an extension of Abraham Maslow’s theory of motivation.” Explain. What are the main reasons behind the low motivation level of civil servants in India? Analyze the reasons with reference to researches of Maslow and Herzberg. 60 Marks

5. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) A manager must compare traditional and modern theories of management before deriving his own way.Comment in the light of McGregor’s view.
(b) “Motivation theory is not synonymous with behaviour theory.”Comment.
(c) “Communication is authority”.’ Comment.
(d) “Morale and Productivity go hand in hand and higher the morale, higher the productivity.” Comment

6. What is morale? State its significance and suggest methods to foster and sustain morale in an organization. 60 Marks

7. Examine the view that Systems theory, despite its promises to the contrary, followed similar patterns that characterized the Structural Classical theories. 60 Marks

8. The ‘decision-making scheme, and ‘satisfying model’ of Herbert A Simon is the major component of administrative theory. Examine the respective roles of facts and values in the decision-making process. It is possible to make value – free decision in government system? 60 Marks

1. Answer the following (in about 250 words for each answer) 20×2=40
(a) What do you understand by the term Neutrinos? Bring out the position of India in Neutrino physics. Bring out the application of Neutrino technology.
(b) What do you understand by the term breeder reactor? Assess the contributions made by the fast Breeder Test Reactor at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Kalpakkam. Bring out Homi Bhabha’s Vision for the Country’s nuclear electricity programme.

2. Answer any two of the following in about 150 words each. 12×2=24
(a) What do you understand by Hap Map project? Why Hap Map project has been in news recently?
(b) What is Cryogenics? Bring out the use of cryogenics.
(c) What do you understand by Dark energy?

3. Answer any two of the following in about 150 words each. 12×2=24
(a) What do you understand by the term Reprocessing of Nuclear fuel? Bring out the Significance of the Reprocessing accord signed between Indian and the U.S.
(b) What is International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGS)? Bring out the India’s Contribution to ICGC.
(c) Write a short note on India’s Aircraft Carriers.

4. Answer any two of the following in about 150 words each.
(a) What is S band Spectrum? Bring out the importance of S band spectrum.
(b) Write a short note on Indian human Space flight program.
(c) What is GAGAN? Bring out the uses of GAGAN.

5. Write brief but precise notes on any six of the following, you answer should not exceed 50 words in each case. 5×6=30
(a) Trsnsgenesis
(b) Edison 2
(c) Google’s new prius
(d) Looxcie
(e) Dragon Capsule
(f) Resourcesat-2
(g) Phishing

6. Answer any three of the following in about 150 words each. 12×3=36
(a) What do you understand by the term “Cloud Computing” Bring out the uses of cloud Computing.
(b) What do you understand by the term New Delhi metallo - beta - lactamase-1 (NDM-1). Write about Superbug.
(c) What do you understand by the term Nuclear triad? Do you thing India is N-triad?
(d) Write about Bhuvan and its features.
(e) Write a short note on IMEI number.

7. Answer any five of the following in about 150 words each. 12×5=60
(a) What is a Nuclear Submarine? How far India has developed this technology?
(b) What is cluster Munitions? Write about the convention on cluster Munitions.
(c) What is AWACS? Write about India’s AWACS.
(d) Bring out the details regarding National Geospatial Data Authority.
(e) What is Biometrics? How a Biometric System can operate?
(f) Give a brief account of Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project.

8. Answer each of the following briefly but precisely. Each answer should be less than 50 words.
(a) C 2 D Project
(b) Fiber – optic Communication
(c) INS Vikrant
(d) Vaxiflu – S
(e) Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
(f) Garima

9. Write brief notes on each of the following in about 20 words each: 2×8=16
(a) OSDD
(b) LHC
(c) RISORINE
(d) Pulsars
(e) GNSS
(f) ATV
(g) Ocean sat-II
(h) CCS

10. Write brief notes on each of the following. Each answer should not exceed 20 words. 2×8=16
(a) TERC gene.
(b) Anchor Babies.
(c) Martin Jetpack
(d) WWW.
(e) 3 G.
(f) FOSS.
(g) Middle Ware.
(h) Bug.

1. Answer the following (in about 250 words for each answer): 20×2=40
(a) What do you understand by the term Currency War? Bring out the recent Controversy between China and US over Currency depreciation?
(b) Trace the transformation of BRIC into BRICS. Bring out the implications of expanded cooperation among BRICS to the world.

2. Answer the following about 150 words each: 12×2=24
(a) Comment on the present status of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
(b) Write about new START Treaty and its positive impact on US-Russia relations.

3. Answer the following in about 150 words each: 12×2=24
(a) Bring out the reason why Gulf of Aden has been in the news.
(b) Trace the origin of ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom) why ETA has been in news recently.

4. Answer the following in about 150 words each.
(a) Write about (Ground Zero Mosque) Park 51 project.
(b) Give a detailed account of Disarmament treaties.

5. Write brief but precise notes on any six of the following. Your answer should not exceed 50 words in each case. 5×6=30
(a) GNH
(b) Treaty of Pelindaba
(c) Kanishka report
(d) Banana Republic
(e) Schengen Area.
(f) Lisbon Treaty.
(g) Kimberley process Certification Scheme.

6. Answer the following in about 150 words each. 12×3=36
(a) Why Arctic Sea route between Europe and Asia was in news in August 2010.
(b) Write about ICJS Judgment on Kosovo’s independence and write your views on implications of this judgment.
(c) Write a short note on Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus Customs Union.

7. Answer any five of the following in about 150 words each. 12×5=60
(a) What is Perestroika? Bring out its implication.
(b) Southern Sudanese independence referendum, 2011.
(c) The 2011 Egyptian revolution
(d) The 2011 Libyan civil war.
(e) European Austerity Measures.
(f) Tunisia’s Political Crisis.

8. Answer each of the following briefly but precisely. Each answer should be less than 50 words. 5×6=30
(a) IRENA.
(b) IONS.
(c) WIPO.
(d) Asia Pacific Community.
(e) World Anti Doping Agency.
(f) UNSC.

9. Write brief notes on each of the following in about 20 words each. 2×8=16
(a) Twitter
(b) Wikipedia
(c) OHCHR.
(d) FMCT.
(e) ICTT.
(f) IWD.
(g) WEF.
(h) Interpol.

10. Write brief notes on each of the following. Each answer should not exceed 20 words. 2×8=16
(a) Confrence on Disarmament
(b) Golden Globe Awards
(c) Crystal Award
(d) Elysee Treaty
(e) ICC-IMB
(f) OSCE
(g) SCOPE
(h) Global Competitiveness Report.

1. Answer the following (in about 250 words for each answer) 20×2=40
(a) What do you understand by convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage? Why this Convention is important for Indo U.S. relations?
(b) Bring out the fishing conflict in Indo Sri Lankan waters. Trace the origin of Katchatheevu island dispute between India and Sri Lanka.

2. Answer any two of the following in about 150 words each: 12×2=24
(a) Zangmu project and Sino-Indian relations.
(b) The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAP) or Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline.
(c) What is a hot line Commission System? Bring out the Countries with which India has hot line communication system.

3. Answer any two of the following in about 150 words each: 12×2=24
(a) What do you understand by Kishenganga dispute? Bring out the current status of Kishenganga dispute?
(b) Bring out the salient features of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with Japan.
(c) Discuss Indo Russia relation with reference to nuclear agreement.

4. Answer the following in about 150 words each: 12×2=24
(a) Write about India-France Civil nuclear deal and bring out the Significance of this deal.
(b) Write a short note on prime minister’s Global Advisory Council of oversees Indians.

5. Write brief but precise notes on any six of the following your answer should not exceed 50 words in each case.
(a) India-U.S. Shale gas exploration initiatives.
(b) Global INK.
(c) Green Politics.
(d) NSG.
(e) Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.
(f) Indian Community Welfare Fund.
(g) Back channel diplomacy.

6. Answer the following in about 150 words each: 12×3=36
(a) US-India Economic and Financial Partnership.
(b) Indo-Canadian Cooperation in the atomic sector.
(c) The Indus Waters Treaty.

7. Answer any five of the following in about 150 words each.
(a) SAARC Food Bank.
(b) Write a brief account on National Security Strategy 2010 of the U.S. and its relationship with India.
(c) SAARC Development fund.
(d) The Pan-African E-network project for Telemedicine.
(e) Mc Mahon Line and Indo-Chinese relation.
(f) South Asian University.

8. Answer each of the following briefly but precisely. Each answer should be lern than 50 words. 5×6=30
(a) Significance of Indian’s membership with SCO.
(b) Obama-Singh 21st century knowledge Initiative.
(c) Water Wars.
(d) HTCG.
(e) Indo-Bangladesh relations.
(f) India-Vietnam relations.

9. Write brief notes on each of the following in about 20 words each: 2×8=16
(a) OIFC.
(b) Global INK.
(c) OCI.
(d) KIP.
(e) SPDC.
(f) SSA.
(g) OWRC.
(h) ICWF.

10. Write brief notes on each of the following. Each answer should not exceed 20 words each. 2×8=16
(a) ICOE
(b) ICWA.
(c) ICCR.
(d) Public diplomacy
(e) Disarmament and International Security Affairs.
(f) India-West Asia.
(g) India- UN.

1. Answer the following (in about 250 words for each answer) 20×2=40
(a) Explain how economic policies of Britishers led to the transformation of India’s economy into a colonial economy.
(b) Explain how the Socio-religious reforms contribute to the national awakening in India?

2. Answer the following about 150 words each: 12×2=24
(a) Bring out the Salient features of the Public features of the Public Interest Disclosure and protection to Persons Making the Disclosures Bill, 2010.
(b) Bring out the Salient features of the Prevention of  Torture Bill, 2010.

3. Answer any of the following in about 150 words each. 12×2=24
(a) What do you understand by Contempt of Parliament.
(b) How the Political Parties in India are classified as state parties or National Parties or both by the Election Commission of India.

4. Answer any two of the following in about 150 words each.
(a) Give a brief account of National Water Mission approved by the Prime Minister Council on climate change.
(b) Give a brief account of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor.
(c) What do you understand by the term Paid News?  Give some recent example regarding this.

5. Write brief but precise notes on any six of the following. Your answer should not exceed 50 words in each case. 5×6=30
(a) Raja Ravi Varma.
(b) The Chernoby disaster.
(c) Raja Raja Cholan.
(d) Durga bai Deshmukh.
(e) Corporate faming.
(f) The South Pole.
(g) Geothermal Power.

6. Answer any there of the following in about 150 words each. 12×3=36
(a) Bring out the Salient features of the forward contracts (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2010.
(b) What do you understand by the term Teaser Loan? Why it has been in the news recently?
(c) What is a micro finance institution? Bring out the recommendations of Male-gam Panel.

7. Answer any five of the following in about 150 words each: 12×5=60
(a) What do you understand by the term Strategic Sale of a Company? Bring out the government with reference to profit making public sector undertaking (PSUs)
(b) What is Human Papillomavirus (HPV)? Write about recent Controversies associated with HPV vaccines project in India.
(c) Bring out Salient features of the recent draft on protection of children from sexual offences Bill, 2010.
(d) Bring out the N.R. Madhava Menon Committee recommendations on Autonomy of Central Educational Institutions.
(e) Write about the National e-government plan (NeGP) and its status in India.
(f) Bring out the recommendations of Vaidhyanathan Committee on Agriculture Statistics.

8. Answer each of the following briefly but precisely. Each answer should be leess than 50 words. 5×6=30
(a) UMPP
(b) RTI
(c) Sanchar Shaktri
(d) Diclofenac drug Controversy.
(e) Gram Nyayalayas Act.
(f) Double Jeopardy.

9. Write brief notes on each of the following in about 20 words each. 2×8=16
(a) Green bonus.
(b) Electronic waste.
(c) Green diesel.
(d) Codex Alimentarius
(e) Ramsar Convention.
(f) RBI.
(g) Anchor Investors.
(h) EET.

10. Write brief notes on each of the following in about 20 words each. 2×8=16
(a) Liu Xiaobo.
(b) Salva Kiir.
(c) Mother Teresa.
(d) Bobby Jindal.
(e) Binayak Sen.
(f) Homi Selhna.
(g) L.C. Sain.
(h) Kamala Harris.

Time Allowed: Three Hours
Maximum Marks: 300

INSTRUCTIONS: Candidates should attempt all question strictly in accordance with the instructions given under each questions. The number of marks carried by each question is indicated at the end of the question.

1. Answer anyone of the following (in about 250 words): 30
a) Regardless of distance in time, there were lots of similarities between Lord Curzon and Jawahar Lal Nehru. Discuss.
b) How did the Government of India Act, 1935 mark a point of no return in the history of constitutional development in India?

2. Answer any two of the following (in about 150 words each): 2x15=30
a) What was the attitude of Indian industrialists towards the Indian National Congress in the pre- independent era?
b) Critically assess Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru's views on Indian Nationalism.
c) Characterise the main features of Indian Renaissance.

3. Write about the following (not exceeding 20 words each): 15x2=30
a) Kalhana
b) Panini
c) Yakshagana
d) Natyasastra
e) Tabaqat-i-Nasiri
t) Madhura Vijayam
g) Pandurang Mahatmya
h) Prithviraj Raso
q) "The Insider"
J) Ali Sardar J afri
k) Aruna Roy
l) Dr. J.C. Daniel
m) Balwant Gargi
n) Dr. JayantNarlikar
0) Shashi Tharoor

Time Allowed: Three Hours
Maximum Marks: 300

INSTRUCTIONS: Candidates should attempt all question strictly in accordance with the instructions given under each questions. The number of marks carried by each question is indicated at the end of the question.

1. Answer any two of the following (answer to each question should be in about 150 words): 15x2=30
(a) Indo-Russian Defence Co-operation
(b) India's response, to political crisis In Bangladesh
(c) Elaborate on India's Nuclear Doctrine

2. Write about the following (answer to each question should be in about 20 wordS): 2x5= I 0
(a) SAFTA
(b) India and East Asia Summit (EAS)
(c) Shanghai Cooperation Organization, (S.C.O.)
(d) Panchsheel in India's Foreign Policy
(e) Relevance of NAM

3. Write about the following (answer to each question should be in about 20 words) : 2x5=10
(a) Pravasi Bhartiya Bima Yojana, 2006
(b) Indian All-Women Contingent to Liberia
(c) Madheshis in Nepal
(d) Know India Programme (KIP)
(e) Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs

4. Answer anyone of the following (in about 250 words): 30
(a). What is Dumping? Evaluate the remedial measures taken by Government of India vis-à-vis WTO provisions regarding dumping.
(b) Comment on the relationship between credit availability and agricultural growth in India.

5. Answer any two of the following (answer to each question should be in about 150 words )
(a). What is the meaning and aim of social forestry ? What are the main weakness noticed in social forestry programme?
(b). Bring out the main objective of Rastriya Krishi Bima Yojana. The scheme is being implemented by which agency.

1. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) A theory of public administration means in our time a theory of politics also. Comment.
(b) “Public and Private Administrations are two species of the same genus, but they also have special values and techniques of their own.”Comment.
(c) Politics-Administration dichotomy may be acceptable in theory but may not be acceptable in practice. Comment with reference to Wilson’s view.
(d) Scientific Management theory has no space for human aspects. Comment.

2. Describe the evolution of the discipline of public administration with special emphasis on post-1970 developments. What are the possible trends in its growth in the first decade of 21st Century? 60 Marks

3. “The themes developed at MINNOWBROOK conferences I, II & III largely focus on the current and future visions in the field of public administration.” Elucidate. 60 Marks

4. Bring out the core values, approaches and assumptions of traditional public administration, New Public Management and digital era of governance and how new has attempted to change or retain old, and to what extent. 60 Marks

5. Comment on any Three of the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60 Marks
(a) “In the science of administration, whether public or private, the basic ‘good’ is efficiency.” Comment.
(b) “Calling Woodrow Wilson, the father of Public Administration is doing injustice to equally or even more eminent contributions made prior to him.” Comment.
(c) “Once fully established, bureaucracy is among those social structures which are the hardest to destroy.” Comment.
(d) The Classical Science of Administration with special reference to its criticism by Dwight Waldo and Robert Dahl. Comment

6. Discuss the Classical theory of Administration with special reference to Fayol,Gullick & Urwick. 60 Marks

7. Max Weber tried his level best to ensure social acceptance of bureaucracy. Do you agree? Discuss. 60 Marks

8. (a) “Once fully established, bureaucracy is among those social structures which are the hardest to destroy.” Discuss. 30 Marks
(b) “The failure of classical theory of administration lies in its capacity to confront theory with evidence.” Discuss. 30 Marks