Free Mock Test Paper for UPSC Public Administration Mains Exam (Test -5)
Free Mock Test Paper for UPSC Public Administration Mains Exam (Test -5)
SECTION - A
Q.1. Answer the following questions in not more than 150 words each: 10x5=50
(a) The Indian Constitution provides a mere environmental
setting for our politics and administration but the state of conflict arises
from the mass base and the elitist orientations of the two respectively. 10
(b) Comment : As the Fundamental Law of Administration of the land, the Indian
Constitution lacks teeth in its institutional package to realize the landable
ideals enshrined in the Constitution. 10
(c) Comment: The fine art of deception which the British Practised in the name
of Dyarchy was too crude for it to pass the test of self-government. It hastened
Provinical Autonomy but this too did not promote Parliamentary democracy of
federalism. 10
(d) Comment : “The word ‘secular’ in the Preamble to our Constitution requires
to be defined.” 10
(e) Comment : “Indian federalism is described as federal in form but unitary in
spirit.” 10
Q.2.
(a) The Cabinet Committees in the Union Government are a proven asset to it
as staff agencies.Elucidate. 25
(b) Reservation Policy in Public Services as a mandate from the Constitution has
been conducive to the promotion of Social Justice. Discuss and illustrate. 25
Q.3.
(a) The State Governments now have little alternative but to accept autonomy,
innovation and political directions by representative bodies in Urban Local
Government. 30
(b) “The Prime Minister’s Office is a staff agency. Its line functions are
inconsistent with the Secretariat Systems of administration.” Comment. 10
(c) Comment : Corruption and development are apparently not antagortic. But,
speed in administration is not substitute for integrity. 10
Q.4.
(a) ‘Not the Potomac, but the Thames, fertilizes the flow of Yamuna’. In the
light of the statement, comment on the symbolic institution of the President of
India. 25
(b) “Looking back to our past experience, the fear that the emergency provisions
can be misused have at times proved right and wrong at other times.” Discuss
with examples.25
SECTION B
Q5. Answer the following questions in not more than 150 words each: 10x5=50
(a) Comment : “District Administration is like a small tortoise carrying the
load of an elephant.” 10
(b) Comment : “Absence of District Planning Committees in a large number of
districts has prevented convergence of planning at the district level.”10
(c) Comment : The Cabinet is not a constitutional body. 10
(d) “Sound municipal governance requires a cadre of specialized municipal
services executives equal in status to State Services.” Comment. 10
(e) Comment : In urban governance, uni-functional agencies and development
authorities create a “functional jungle.” 10
Q.6.
(a) Examine some of the Challenges to Development Administration in the
Panchayati democracy of rural India. Do you think that the Constitutionalisation
of three-tier Federalism will be a viable model for future ? 25
(b) Critically examine the role of the Finance Ministry as the custodian of all
public revenues. 25
Q7.
(a) Comment : “The size of the leviathan goes on expanding, despite the
country’s recent commitment to downsizing or rightsizing.” 15
(b) NGOs demand greater autonomy from the State and are now ‘new actors’ in
development. How effective are they as instruments of decentralization and
debureaucratisation? Critically evaluate. 20
(c) Examine the institutional vulnerability of municipal governance in the midst
of an emerging spectre of multiple partnerships. 15
Q.8. Examine the provisions of the 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments from the point of view of the autonomy of the local bodies. 50