“New Public Administration” (NPA) idiom has broken fresh ground and imparted new substance to the discipline of Public Administration. It is no more ‘new’. Yet in the absence of any ‘newer’ Public Administration, it continues to be one of the latest landmarks in Public Administration. The movement has all but disappeared, though some of its scholars continue to subscribe to its basic premises of relevance, activism and equity. Having its source in the intellectual ferment and socio-political turbulence that marked the American life in the middle and the late 1960s, it has crept into the 1970s and after. 

The major landmarks in the growth and emergence of New Public Administration are the following:

• The Honey Report on Higher Education for Public Service, 1967.
• The Philadelphia Conference on the Theory and Practice of Public Administration, 1967.
• The Minnowbrook Conference, 1968.
• Publication of "Toward a New Public Administration: The Minnowbrook Perspective" (edited by Frank Marini), 1971.
• Publication of "Publication Administration in a Time of turbulence" (edited by Dwight Waldo), 1971.