PAPER – I
Administrative Theory
1. Introduction: Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration;
Wilson’s vision of Public Administration; Evolution of the discipline and its
present status; New Public Administration; Public Choice approach;
Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation; Good Governance:
concept and application; New Public Management.
2. Administrative Thought: Scientific Management and Scientific Management
movement; Classical Theory; Weber’s bureaucratic model – its critique and
post-Weberian Developments; 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).
3. Administrative Behaviour: Process and techniques of decision-making;
Communication; Morale; Motivation Theories – content, process and
contemporary; Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern.
4. Organisations: Theories – systems, contingency; 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.
5. 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; Civil
society; Citizen’s Charters; Right to Information; Social audit.
6. Administrative Law: Meaning, scope and significance; Dicey on
Administrative law; Delegated legislation; Administrative Tribunals.
7. 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.
8. Development Dynamics: Concept of development; Changing profile of
development administration; ‘Anti-development thesis’; Bureaucracy and
development; Strong state versus the market debate; Impact of liberalisation
on administration in developing countries; Women and development - the
self-help group movement.
9. Personnel Administration: Importance of human resource development;
Recruitment, training, career advancement, position classification, discipline,
performance appraisal, promotion, pay and service conditions; employeremployee
relations, grievance redressal mechanism; Code of conduct;
Administrative ethics.
10. 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.
11. Techniques of Administrative Improvement: Organisation and methods,
Work study and work management; e-governance and information technology;
Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.
12. Financial Administration: Monetary and fiscal policies; Public borrowings
and public debt Budgets - types and forms; Budgetary process; Financial
accountability; Accounts and audit.
PAPER - II
Indian Administration
1. Evolution of Indian Administration: Kautilya’s 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 Minister’s Office; Central Secretariat;
Ministries and Departments; Boards; Commissions; Attached offices; Field
organizations.
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: Budget as a political instrument; Parliamentary
control of public expenditure; Role of finance ministry in monetary and fiscal
area; Accounting techniques; Audit; Role of Controller General of Accounts
and Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
10. Administrative Reforms since Independence: Major concerns; Important
Committees and Commissions; Reforms in financial management and human
resource development; Problems of implementation.
11. Rural Development: Institutions and agencies since independence; Rural
development programmes: foci and strategies; Decentralization and
Panchayati Raj; 73rd Constitutional amendment.
12. Urban Local Government: Municipal governance: main features, structures,
finance and problem areas; 74th Constitutional Amendment; Global-local
debate; New localism; Development dynamics, politics and administration
with special reference to city management.
13. Law and Order Administration: British legacy; National Police Commission;
Investigative agencies; Role of central and state agencies including paramilitary
forces in maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and
terrorism; Criminalisation of politics and administration; Police-public
relations; Reforms in Police.
14. 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.
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