PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

PAPER I Administrative Theory

1. Introduction:

1. Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration;

2. Wilsons vision of Public Administration;

3. Evolution of the discipline and its present status;

4. New Public Administration;

5. Public Choice approach;

6. Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation;

7. Good Governance: concept and application;

8. New Public Management.

2. Administrative Thought:

1. Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement;

2. Classical Theory;

3. Webers bureaucratic model its critique and post-Weberian

Developments;

4. Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker Follett);

5. Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others);

6. Functions of the Executive (C.I. Barnard);

7. Simons decision-making theory;

8. Participative Management (R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor).

3. Administrative Behaviour:

1. Process and techniques of decision-making;

2. Communication;

3. Morale;

4. Motivation Theories content, process and contemporary;

5. Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern.

4. Organisations:

1. Theories systems, contingency;

2. Structure and forms: Ministries and Departments,

Corporations, Companies, Boards and Commissions;

3. Ad hoc and advisory bodies;

4. Headquarters and Field relationships;

5. Regulatory Authorities;

6. Public - Private Partnerships.

5. Accountability and control:

1. Concepts of accountability and control;

2. Legislative, Executive and Judicial control over administration;

3. Citizen and Administration;

4. Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations;

5. Civil society;

6. Citizens Charters;

7. Right to Information;

8. Social audit.

6. Administrative Law:

1. Meaning, scope and significance;

2. Dicey on Administrative law;

3. Delegated legislation;

4. Administrative Tribunals.

7. Comparative Public Administration:

1. Historical and sociological factors affecting administrative

systems;

2. Administration and politics in different countries;

3. Current status of Comparative Public Administration;

4. Ecology and administration;

5. Riggsian models and their critique.

8. Development Dynamics:

1. Concept of development;

2. Changing profile of development administration;

3. Anti-development theses;

4. Bureaucracy and development;

5. Strong state versus the market debate;

6. Impact of liberalisation on administration in developing

countries;

7. Women and development - the self-help group movement.

9. Personnel Administration:

1. Importance of human resource development;

2. Recruitment, training, career advancement, position

classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion,

pay and service conditions;

3. Employer-employee relations, grievance redressal

mechanism;

4. Code of conduct;

5. Administrative ethics.

10. Public Policy:

1. Models of policy-making and their critique;

2. Processes of conceptualisation, planning, implementation,

monitoring, evaluation and review and their limitations;

3. State theories and public policy formulation.

11. Techniques of Administrative Improvement:

1. Organisation and methods, Work study and work

management;

2. E-governance and information technology;

3. Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT,

CPM.

12. Financial Administration:

1. Monetary and fiscal policies;

2. Public borrowings and public debt Budgets types and forms;

3. Budgetary process;

4. Financial accountability;

5. Accounts and audit.

PAPER II Indian Administration

1. Evolution of Indian Administration:

1. Kautilyas Arthashastra;

2. Mughal administration;

3. Legacy of British rule in politics and administration -

Indianization of public services, revenue administration, district

administration, local self-government.

2. Philosophical and Constitutional framework of government:

1. Salient features and value premises;

2. Constitutionalism;

3. Political culture;

4. Bureaucracy and democracy;

5. Bureaucracy and development.

3. Public Sector Undertakings:

1. Public sector in modern India;

2. Forms of Public Sector Undertakings;

3. Problems of autonomy, accountability and control;

4. Impact of liberalization and privatization.

4. Union Government and Administration:

1. Executive, Parliament, Judiciary - structure, functions, work

processes;

2. Recent trends;

3. Intra-governmental relations;

4. Cabinet Secretariat;

5. Prime Ministers Office;

6. Central Secretariat;

7. Ministries and Departments;

8. Boards;

9. Commissions;

10. Attached offices;

11. Field organizations.

5. Plans and Priorities:

1. Machinery of planning;

2. Role, composition and functions of the Planning Commission

and the National Development Council;

3. Indicative planning;

4. Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels;

5. Constitutional Amendments (1992) and decentralized planning

for economic development and social justice.

6. State Government and Administration:

1. Union-State administrative, legislative and financial relations;

2. Role of the Finance Commission;

3. Governor;

4. Chief Minister;

5. Council of Ministers;

6. Chief Secretary;

7. State Secretariat;

8. Directorates.

7. District Administration since Independence:

1. Changing role of the Collector;

2. Union state-local relations;

3. Imperatives of development management and law and order

administration;

4. District administration and democratic decentralization.

8. Civil Services:

1. Constitutional position;

2. Structure, recruitment, training and capacity-building;

3. Good governance initiatives;

4. Code of conduct and discipline;

5. Staff associations;

6. Political rights;

7. Grievance redressal mechanism;

8. Civil service neutrality;

9. Civil service activism.

9. Financial Management:

1. Budget as a political instrument;

2. Parliamentary control of public expenditure;

3. Role of finance ministry in monetary and fiscal area;

4. Accounting techniques;

5. Audit;

6. Role of Controller General of Accounts and Comptroller and

Auditor General of India.

10. Administrative Reforms since Independence:

1. Major concerns;

2. Important Committees and Commissions;

3. Reforms in financial management and human resource

development;

4. Problems of implementation.

11. Rural Development:

1. Institutions and agencies since independence;

2. Rural development programmes: Foci and strategies;

3. Decentralization and Panchayati Raj;

4. 73rd Constitutional amendment.

12. Urban Local Government:

1. Municipal governance: main features, structures, finance and

problem areas;

2. 74th Constitutional Amendment;

3. Global local debate;

4. New localism;

5. Development dynamics, politics and administration with

special reference to city management.

13. Law and Order Administration:

1. British legacy;

2. National Police Commission;

3. Investigative agencies;

4. Role of central and state agencies including paramilitary

forces in maintenance of law and order and countering

insurgency and terrorism;

5. Criminalisation of politics and administration;

6. Police-public relations;

7. Reforms in Police.

14. Significant issues in Indian Administration:

1. Values in public service;

2. Regulatory Commissions;

3. National Human Rights Commission;

4. Problems of administration in coalition regimes;

5. Citizen-administration interface;

6. Corruption and administration;

7. Disaster management.