Public Administration (PAPER-1)

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Section

Topic

• Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration

• Wilson’s vision of Public Administration

• Evolution of the discipline and its present status;

• New Public Administration

• Good Governance: concept and application;
• New Public Management.

• Public Choice approach;
• Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation , Globalisation

• Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement;
• Classical Theory; Weber’s bureaucratic model – its critique and post-Weberian Developments

• Classical Theory,
• Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker Follett);

• Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others);
• Functions of the Executive (C.I. Barnard)

• Simon’s decision-making theory;
• Participative Management (R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor)

• Process and techniques of decision-making

• Communication

• Morale;
• Motivation Theories – content, process and contemporary

• Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern

• Theories – systems, contingency

• Ministries and Departments, Boards and Commissions

• Corporations, Companies, Ad hoc and advisory bodies; Headquarters and Field relationships; Regulatory Authorities; Public - Private Partnerships

• Concepts of accountability and control; Legislative, Executive and Judicial control over administration

• Citizen and Administration;
• Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations ;
• Civil society

• Citizen’s Charters;
• Right to Information; Social audit

• Meaning, scope and significance; Dicey on Administrative law

• Delegated legislation

• Administrative Tribunals

• Historical and sociological factors affecting administrative systems; Administration and politics in different countries

• Current status of Comparative Public Administration; Ecology and administration

• Riggsian models and their critique

• Concept of development; Changing profile of development administration; ‘Anti-development thesis’

• Bureaucracy and development; Strong state versus the market debate

• Impact of liberalisation on administration in developing countries; Women and development - the self-help group movement

• Importance of human resource development; Recruitment, training

• career advancement, position classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion

• Pay and service conditions; employer-employee relations

• Grievance redressal mechanism; Code of conduct; Administrative ethics

• Models of policy-making and their critique

• Processes of conceptualisation, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review and their limitations

• State theories and public policy formulation

• Organisation and methods

• Work study and work management; e-governance and information technology

• Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM

• Monetary and fiscal policies; Public borrowings and public debt

• Budgets - types and forms; ; Accounts and audit

• Budgetary process; Financial accountability

• Kautilya’s Arthashastra

• Mughal administration

• Legacy of British rule in politics and administration - Indianization of public services, revenue administration, district administration, local self-government

• Salient features and value premises

• Constitutionalism; Political culture

• Bureaucracy and democracy; Bureaucracy and development

• Public sector in modern India; Forms of Public Sector Undertakings

• Problems of autonomy, accountability and control

• Impact of liberalization and privatization

• Executive (Part - 1)

• Executive (Part - 2)

• Judiciary - structure

• Parliament, functions, work processes; Recent trends; Intragovernmental relations

• Cabinet Secretariat; Prime Minister’s Office; Central Secretariat

• Ministries and Departments; Boards; Commissions; Attached offices; Field organizations

• Machinery of planning; Role, composition and functions of the Planning Commission and the National Development Council; ‘Indicative’ planning

• Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels

• Constitutional Amendments (1992) and decentralized planning for economic development and social justice

• Union-State administrative, legislative and financial relations

• Role of the Finance Commission; Governor; Chief Minister; Council of Ministers

• Chief Secretary; State Secretariat; Directorates

• Changing role of the Collector

• Union-state-local relations; Imperatives of development management and law and order administration;

• District administration and democratic decentralization

• Constitutional position; Structure, recruitment, training and capacity-building

• Good governance initiatives; Code of conduct and discipline; Political rights

• Staff associations; Grievance redressal mechanism; Civil service neutrality; Civil service activism

• Budget as a political instrument; Parliamentary control of public expenditure

• Role of finance ministry in monetary and fiscal area; Accounting techniques; Audit

• Role of Controller General of Accounts and Comptroller and Auditor General of India

• Major concerns; Important Committees and Commissions

• Reforms in financial management and human resource development; Problems of implementation

• Institutions and agencies since independence; Rural development programmes: foci and strategies

• Decentralization and Panchayati Raj;73rd Constitutional amendment

• Municipal governance: main features, structures, finance and problem areas; 74th Constitutional Amendment; Global-local debate

• New localism; Development dynamics, politics and administration with special reference to city management

• British legacy; National Police Commission; Investigative agencies; Role of central and state agencies including paramilitary forces in maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and terrorism

• Criminalisation of politics and administration; Police-public relations; Reforms in Police

• Values in public service; Regulatory Commissions

• National Human Rights Commission; Problems of administration in coalition regimes

• Citizen-administration interface; Corruption and administration; Disaster management

1.

Section-A

Gist of Important National Administrative Committees Report "Section-A"

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Section-B

Gist of Important National Administrative Committees Report "Section-B"

3.

Section-C

Gist of Important National Administrative Committees Report "Section-C"

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Section-D

Gist of Important National Administrative Committees Report "Section-D"

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Section-E

Gist of Important National Administrative Committees Report "Section-E"

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Section-F

Gist of Important National Administrative Committees Report "Section-F"

1.

Chapter 1

Ethics - The Other Name for Good Governance R.C. Sekhar

2.

Chapter 2

Changing Administrative Values in India V. Subramaniam

3.

Chapter 3

Ethics and Administration Shekhar Singh

4.

Chapter 4

Women and Empowerment Shanta Kohli Chandra

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Chapter 5

Prime Minister’s Office - We Cannot and Need Not do Without IT B.G. Deshmukh

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Chapter 6

Role and Functioning of Election Commission of India M.S. Gill

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Chapter 7

Central Vigilance Commission: A Profile P.K. Gopinath

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Chapter 8

Galloping Corruption: Need for Effective Vigilance U.C. Agarwal

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Chapter 9

Indian Finance Commission G. Thimmaiah

10.

Chapter 10

Role of Comptroller and Auditor General in India V.K. Shunglu

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Chapter 11

Public Sector in Independent India Suresh Kumar

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Chapter 12

Recent Initiatives for Administrative Reform in India P.S.A. Sundaram

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Chapter 13

Reservation Policy in India: Theory and Practice S.R. Maheshwari

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Chapter 14

Welfare Administration in India: A Critical Evaluation R.K. Barik

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Chapter 15

Administration of Urban Development M.N. Buch

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Chapter 16

Natural Disaster Management in India Vinod K. Sharma

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Chapter 17

Sociological Theory and Concepts in Public Administration A.P. Barnadas

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Chapter 18

Managing Natural Resources for disaster Reduction A.K. Kaushik and Rituraj

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Chapter 19

Criminalisation of Polities beyond Vohra Committee P.R. Dubhashi

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Chapter 20

Police Reform - New Imperatives T. Ananthachari

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Chapter 21

Sustainable Development : Imperatives of Public Administration - R. Rajamani

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Chapter 22

Ethics in Public Administration : Maladies and Remedies - Bata K. Dey

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Chapter 23

Right to Information Regime in India: A Critical Appraisal - Sapna Chadah

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Chapter 24

Public Services in India: Achievements and Disappointments - U.C. Agarwal

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Chapter 25

Restructuring of Municipal Services in India Awadesh Kumar Singh

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Chapter 26

Critique of ‘Governance’ from the Grassroots Perspective  P. Raghu Ram

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Chapter 27

Efficiency in Administration: Measures Required to Enhance Efficiency in Administration - R.D. Sharma

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Chapter 28

Role of Information Technology and E-Governance in Effective Delivery of Public Service :
Initiatives, Challenges and Prospects  Inderjeet Singh Sodhi

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Chapter 29

Globalisation Governance and the State  Furoquan Ahmad and Akhtar Ali

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Chapter 30

Public Private Partnership in India (Policy, Strategies and Operationalisation Issues)  T.N. Dhar

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Chapter 31

Social Mobilisation for Empowering Rural Poor Through SHGs: A Study in Assam by T. Medhavati Devi and N. Upadhay

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Chapter 32

Gender Budgeting to Gender Mainstreaming by Shalini Rajneesh

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Chapter 33

Value based Capacity Building Through E-Administration by Sangeeta Sharma

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Chapter 34

The Working of Panchayati Raj: An Analysis by S.A. Palekar

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Chapter 35

People’s Empowerment  by Arvind K. Sharma

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Chapter 36

Citizen’s Charter—An Instrument of Public Accountability: Problems and Prospects in India by R.B. Jain

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Chapter 37

Law and Order: A Precondition for Good Governance by O.P. Tandon

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Chapter 38

Indian Judiciary and Challenges of 21st Century by A.S. Anand

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Chapter 39

The Challenges of Globalisation for Civil Servants by P.R. Ramaswamy

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Chapter 40

Zero Base Budgeting: Re-Emphasised in India : A Case of Research and Development Organisation by Nand Dhameja

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Chapter 41

Role of All-India Services in Centre-State Relation by U.C. Agarwal

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Chapter 42

Opening Government for Public Scrutiny: A Critique of Recent Efforts to Make Governance in India
more Transparent and Accountable by R.B. Jain

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Chapter 43

Indian Federalism at Work: Role of Governor by Sudhanshu Tripathi

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Chapter 44

Public Services in India: Issues of Neutrality vs. Commitment  by Ahmad Shamshad

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Chapter 45

Indian Party System towards Coalition Governance: Need for Introspection
by R.K. Poonia, P.S. Malik and Saroj Malik

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Chapter 46

Privatisation and Public Enterprises in India: Issues of Policy and Implementation by C.V. Raghavulu

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Chapter 47

Police and Good Governance: Promotion of Human Rights by Ved Marwah

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Chapter 48

Action Plan for an Effective and Responsive Government

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Chapter 49

Corruption and Need to Curb IT by P.D. Malaviya

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Chapter 50

Some Perspectives on Governance for Development by B.G. Deshmukh

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Chapter 51

Socio-Economic Development in India and Five Decades of Planning by Ahmad Shamshad

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Chapter 52

Voluntary Associations and Development: The Indian Experience by Bidyut Charkrabarty

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Chapter 53

People’s Participation in Governance by E. Vayunandan and Dolly Mathew

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Chapter 54

Constitutional Head of State without Constitutional Security—The Governor and his Removal by Priti Saxena