PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

PAPER I
Administrative Theory

1. Introduction: 4. Organisations:
Meaning, scope and significance of Public Theories systems, contingency;
Administration; Structure and forms: Ministries and
Wilsons vision of Public Administration; Departments, Corporations, Companies,
Evolution of the discipline and its present Boards and Commissions;
status; Ad hoc and advisory bodies;
New Public Administration; Headquarters and Field relationships;
Public Choice approach; Regulatory Authorities; Public - Private
Challenges of liberalization, Partnerships.
Privatisation,
Globalisation; 5. Accountability and control:
Good Governance: Concept and
application; Concepts of accountability and control;
New Public Management. Legislative, Executive and Judicial control
over administration;
2. Administrative Thought: Citizen and Administration;
Role of media, interest groups, voluntary
Scientific Management and Scientific organizations;
Management movement; Civil society;
Classical Theory; Citizens Charters;
Webers bureaucratic model its critique Right to Information;
and post-Weberian Developments; Social audit.
Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker
Follett); 6. Administrative Law:
Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and
others); Meaning, scope and significance;
Functions of the Executive (C.I. Barnard); Dicey on Administrative law;
Simons decision-making theory; Delegated legislation;
Participative Management (R. Likert, C. Administrative Tribunals.
Argyris, D. McGregor).
7. Comparative Public Administration:
3. Administrative Behaviour: Historical and sociological factors affecting
Process and techniques of decision-making; administrative systems;
Communication; Administration and politics in different
Morale; countries;
Motivation Theories content, process and Current status of Comparative Public
contemporary; Administration;
Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Ecology and administration;
Modern. Riggsian models and their critique.
8. Development Dynamics: 10. Public Policy:
Concept of development; Models of policy-making and their critique;
Changing profile of development Processes of conceptualisation, planning,
administration; implementation, monitoring, evaluation and
Anti-development thesis; review and their limitations;
Bureaucracy and development; State theories and public policy formulation.
Strong state versus the market debate;
Impact of liberalisation on administration in 11. Techniques of Administrative Improvement:
developing countries;
Women and development - the self-help Organisation and methods, Work study
group movement. and work management;
e-governance and information technology;
9. Personnel Administration: Management aid tools like network
analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.
Importance of human resource development;
Recruitment, training, career advancement, 12. Financial Administration:
position classification, discipline,
performance appraisal, promotion, pay and Monetary and fiscal policies;
service conditions; Public borrowings and public debt Budgets -
employer-employee relations, grievance types and forms;
redressal mechanism; Budgetary process;
Code of conduct; Financial accountability;
Administrative ethics. Accounts and audit.

Indian Administration
1. Evolution of Indian Administration:
Kautilyas Arthashastra;
Mughal administration;
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:
Salient features and value premises;
Constitutionalism;
Political culture;
Bureaucracy and democracy;
Bureaucracy and development.
3. Public Sector Undertakings:
Public sector in modern India;
Forms of Public Sector Undertakings;
Problems of autonomy, accountability and
control;
Impact of liberalization and privatization.
4. Union Government and Administration:
Executive, Parliament, Judiciary
structure, functions, work processes;
Recent trends;
Intragovernmental relations;
Cabinet Secretariat;
Prime Ministers Office;
Central Secretariat;
Ministries and Departments;
Boards;
Commissions;
Attached offices;
Field organizations.
PAPER - II
5. 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 economic
development and social justice.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Financial Management: 12. Urban Local Government:

Budget as a political instrument; Municipal governance: main features,

Parliamentary control of public structures, finance and problem areas;
expenditure; 74th Constitutional Amendment;
Role of finance ministry in monetary and Global-local debate;
fiscal area; New localism;
Accounting techniques; Development dynamics, politics and
Audit; administration with special reference to city
Role of Controller General of Accounts management.
and Comptroller and Auditor General of
India. 13. Law and Order Administration:

10. Administrative Reforms since British legacy;

Independence: National Police Commission;
Investigative agencies;
Major concerns; Role of central and state agencies including
Important Committees and Commissions; paramilitary forces in maintenance of law
Reforms in financial management and and order and countering insurgency and
human resource development; terrorism;
Problems of implementation. Criminalisation of politics and
administration;
11. Rural Development: Police-public relations;
Reforms in Police.
Institutions and agencies since
independence; 14. Significant issues in Indian Administration:
Rural development programmes: foci and
strategies; Values in public service;
Decentralization and Panchayati Raj; Regulatory Commissions;
73rd Constitutional amendment. National Human Rights Commission;
Problems of administration in coalition
regimes;
Citizen-administration interface;
Corruption and administration;
Disaster management.