Chapters

Important Topics

Public Administration- Intro

• scope and significance

• Wilson’s vision

• New Public Administration

• New Public Management

• Challenges of liberalization

• Privatisation

• Globalisation

• Good Governance

Administrative Thought

• Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement

• Classical Theory: Weber’s bureaucratic model of its critique and post-Weberian Development

• 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.)

Administrative Behaviour

• Process and techniques of decision-making

• Communication

• Morale

• Motivation Theories content, process and contemporary

• Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modem

Organisations

• Theories systems

• Structure and forms: Ministries and Departments,

• Corporations, Companies

• Boards and Commissions;

• Ad hoc and advisory bodies

• Headquarters and Field relationships

• Regulatory Authorities

• Public-Private Partnerships

Accountability and Control

• Concepts of accountability and control

• Legislative, Executive and judicial control over administration

• Citizen and Administration

• Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations

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

Administrative Law

• Meaning, scope and significance

• Dicey on Administrative law

• Delegated legislation

• Administrative Tribunals

Comparative Public Administration

• 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

Development Dynamics

• Concept of development

• Changing profile of development administration

• Bureaucracy and development

• Strong state versus the market debate

• Impact of liberalisation of administration in developing countries

• Women and development the self-help group movement

Personnel Administration

• Importance of human resource development: Recruitment, career advancement, discipline, training, position classification, promotion performance appraisal, pray and service conditions; employer-employee relations, grievance redressal mechanism

• Code of conduct

• Administrative Ethics

Public Policy

• 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

Techniques of Administrative Improvement

• Administrative Improvement: Organisation and methods

• Work study and work management;

• e-governance and

• information technology

• Management aid tools like network analysis

• MIS

• PERT

• CPM

Financial Administration

• Government strives to have a workforce which reflects gender balance and female candidates are encouraged to apply

• Monetary and fiscal policies: Public borrowings and public debt Budgets types and forms

• Budgetary process

• Financial accountability

• Accounts and audit

Chapters

Important Topics

Evolution of Indian Administration

• Kautilya Arthashastra

• Mughal administration

• Legacy of British rule in administration and politics Indianization of Public services, district Administration, revenue administration, local self Government.

Philosophical and Constitutional framework of Government

• Salient features and value premises

• Constitutionalism

• Political culture

• Bureaucracy and democracy

• Bureaucracy and development

Public Sector Undertakings

• Public sector in modern India

• Forms of Public Sector Undertakings

• Problems of autonomy, accountability and control

• Impact of liberalization and privatization

Union Government and Administration

• Executive, Parliament, Judiciary-structure, functions, work processes

• Recent trends

• Intra-governmental relations

• Cabinet Secretariat

• Prime Minister’s Office

• Central Secretariat

• Ministries and Departments

• Boards

• Commissions

• Attached offices

• Field organizations

Plans and Priorities

• 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 social justice and economic development

State Government and Administration

• Union-State administrative, legislative and financial relations

• Role of the Finance Commission

• Governor

• Chief Minister

• Council of Ministers

• Chief Secretary

• State Secretariat; Directorates

District Administration since Independence

• Changing role of the Collector

• Union-State-local relations

• Imperatives of development management and law and order administration

• District administration and democratic decentralization.

Civil Services

• Constitutional position

• Structure, recruitment, training and capacity building

• Good governance initiatives

• Code of conduct and discipline

• Staff associations

• Political rights

• Grievance redressal mechanism

• Civil service neutrality

• Civil service activism.

Administrative Reforms since Independence

• Major concerns

• Important Committees and Commissions

• Reforms in financial management and human resource development

• Problems of implementation.

Significant issues in Indian Administration

• Values in public service

• Regulatory Commissions

• National Human Rights Commission

• Problems of administration in coalition regimes

• Citizen administration interface

• Corruption and administration

• Disaster management

Rural Development

• Institutions and agencies since Independence

• Rural development programmes: foci and strategies

• Decentralization and Panchayati Raj

• 73rd Constitutional amendment.

Urban Local Government

• Municipal governance: structures, main features, finance and problem areas

• 74th Constitutional Amendment; Global-local debate

• New localism

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

Law and Order Administration

• British legacy

• National Police Commission

• Investigative agencies

• Role of Central and State Agencies including para military forces in maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and terrorism

• Criminalisation of politics and administration

• Police-public relations

• Reforms in Police

Paper

Number of questions

Maximum marks

Duration

General Studies Paper 1

100

200

2 hours

General Studies Paper 2

80

200

2 hours

Paper

Maximum marks

Duration

Compulsory Indian language

300

3 hours

English

300

3 hours

Essay

250

3 hours

General Studies I

250

3 hours

General Studies II

250

3 hours

General Studies III

250

3 hours

General Studies IV

250

3 hours

Optional I

250

3 hours

Optional II

250

3 hours