IAS Professional Course (Phase I)

Revised Syllabus

IAS Professional Course (Phase I)

• Governance, Ethics and Leadership
• Stakeholder analysis and gap analysis
• Strategic Management
• Organizational behavior, leadership profiling, teamwork, etc
• IAS in perspective
• More on ethics…

Public Administration and Management

• Issues in the North East
• Basic Administrative Skills and Procedures
• Project Management
• Media Management
• Communication for development

    Social Marketing

E-Governance

• Service delivery
• National e-Governance Plan (NEGP) for India
• Leadership and motivation
• E-Governance project planning
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and quality control
• Policy framework for E-Governance project
• Field project work
• Decision Support System (DSS)
• Geographical Information System (GIS)

Law

• Indian Penal Code
• Criminal Procedure Code
• Civil Procedure Code
• Indian Evidence Act
• Court work and contempt proceedings
• Minor Acts

• Indian Arms Act
• Essential Commodities Act
• Dowry Prohibition Act
• Protection of Civil Rights Act Political Economy

• Module I: Issues in Agriculture
• Module II: Issues in development of Infrastructure
• Module III: Enterprise Economics

• Costs
• Revenue
• Profitability
• Project: viability study of fair price shop

• Module IV: Project Economics

• Benefits from projects
• Costs of projects
• Decision criteria
• Environmental and distributional issues
• Project: Appraisal of a small/ medium irrigation project

• Module V: Administrative Economics

• Basic theories
• Applications

• Self-help groups
• Incentives in organizations/ case of administrative corruption
• Target screening and beneficiary selection

•     Project: Study of guidelines of selected development programmes, especially centrally-sponsored

Module VI: State and local public finance

• State of state finances
• Efficiency and effectiveness of public spending
• Gender-budgeting
• Municipal finance
• Panchayat finance
• Project: Analysis of a budget at any level

Human and Social Development

• Perspectives on development
• Concept and evolution of human development
• Dimensions of human development
• Measuring and reporting
• Issues in social development
• Health
• Education
• Rural development
• Poverty alleviation, livelihood and employment guarantee
• Institutions and development
• Affirmative policies and development of disadvantaged sections, including women and differently-abled
• Food security
• Urban governance and urban development

District and Regulatory Administration

• District administration
• Office of the District Collector – direct responsibilities as well as coordinating role where direct control does not exist
• PRIs and Municipalities – constitutional bodies at the district level
• Land record/ revenue administration system
• Internal security
• Disaster management
• Conduct of elections
• Fairs/ melas
• Protocol
• Redressal of grievances

Proposed allocation of marks across different subjects in Phase I

Courtesy: Department of Personnel and Training Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions