Public Administration Syllabus for Preliminary Examination
1. Introduction : Meaning, scope and significance. Evolution and
status of the discipline. Comparative Public Administration and Development
Administration. Public and Private Administration: State versus market
debate. New Pubic Administration. New Public Management perspective. 2. Basic con
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cepts and principles : Organization, hierarchy, Unity of
command, Span of control, Authority and Responsibility, Co-ordination,
Centralization and Decentralization, Delegation, Supervision, Line and
Staff. 3. Theories of Administration : Scientific Management (Taylor and the
Scientific Managment Movement), Classical Theory (Fayol, Urwick, Gulick and
others) Bureaucratic Theory (Weber and his critics). Ideas of Mary Parker
Follett and C.I. Barnard; Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others).
Behavioral Approach, Systems approach. 4. Administrative Behaviour : Decision making with special reference
to H. Simon, communication and control, leadership theories. Theories of
motivation (Maslow and Herzberg) 5. Accountability and Control : The concepts of Accountability and
control : Legislative, executive and judicial control. Citizen and
Administration: Role of civil society, peoples participation and Right to
Information. 6. Administrative Systems : Comparative administrative features of
USA, Great Britain, France and Japan. 7. Personnel Administration : Role of Civil Service in developing
societies; position classification, Recuritment, Training, Promotion, Pay
and Service conditions. Relations with the Political Executive;
Administrative Ethics. 8. Financial Administration : Budget: Concepts and forms. Formulation
and execution of budget, deficit financing and public debt, Accounts and
Audit. 9. Union Government and Administration in India. British legacy :
Constitutional context of Indian Administration; The President, Prime
Minister and the Council of Ministers; Central Secretariat; Cabinet
Secretariat, Prime Ministers Office, Planning Commission; Finance
Commission; Election Commission; Comptroller and Auditor-General of India.
Public enterprises: Patterns, role performance and impact of liberalization. 10. Civil Services in India : Recruitment to All India and Central
Services. Union Public Service Commission; Training of Civil Servants.
Generalists and Specialists. Minister-Civil Servant relationship. 11. State and District Administration : Governor, Chief Minister,
Secretariat, Chief Secretary, Directorates, District Collector: changing
role. 12. Local Government : Panchayati Raj and Urban local Government:
Main features, structures, finances and problem areas. 73rd and 74th
Constitutional Amendements.
Public Administration Syllabus for Main Examination
Paper-I
Administrative theory
Section-A I Introduction : Meaning, scope and significance of Public
Administration, Public and Private Administration, Wilsons vision of Public
Administration, Evolution of the discipline and its present status. New
Public Administration. Public choice approach and New Public Management
perspective. Features of Entrepreneurial Government, Good Governance :
concept and application. II Theories of Administration : Nature and typologies; Scientific
Management (Taylor and the Scientific Management Movement), Classical Theory
(Fayol, Urwick, Gulick and others), Bureaucratic Theory. (Marxist view,
Webers model and its critique, post-Weberian developments.) Ideas of Mary
Parker Follett and (C.I. Barnard) Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and and
others). Behavioral Approach to Organizational Analysis. Participative
Management; (McGregor, Likert and others). The Systems Approach; Open and
closed systems. III Structure of public organisations : Typologies of Political
Executive and their functions. Forms of public organizations : Ministries
and Departments : Corporations; Companies, Boards and Commissions; Ad hoc
and Advisory bodies. Headquarters and field relationships. IV Administrative Behaviour : Decision making with special reference
to Herbert Simon, Theories of Leadership, Communication, Morale, Motivation
(Maslow and Herzberg.) V Accountability and Control : Concepts of Accountability and
Control; Legislative Executive and Judicial Control over Administration.
Citizen and Administration, Role of civil society, peoples participation,
Right to information. Administrative corruption, machinery for redressal of
citizens grievances. Citizens Charter. VI Administrative Law : Meaning and significance. Delegated
Legislation : Types, Advantages, Limitations, Safeguards, Administrative
Tribunals : limitations and methods of ensuring effectiveness.
Section-B
VII Administrative Reforms : Meaning, process and obstacles.
Techniques of administrative improvement : O and M; Work Study and Work
Management, Information Technology. VIII Comparative Public Administration : Meaning, nature and scope.
Models of Comparative Public Administration : Bureaucratic and ecological. IX Development Administration : Origin and purpose, Riggs
Prismatic-Sala Model; Bureaucracy and Development; Changing profile of
Development Administration; new directions in peoples self development and
empowerment. X Public Policy : Relevance of Policy making in Public
Administration. Model of Policy-making Sectoral policies (e.g. Energy,
Industries Education and Transport Policies) Process of Policy formulation,
problems of implementation, feed-back and evaluation. XI Personnel Administration : Objectives of Personnel Administration.
Importance of human resource development. Recruitment, training, career
development, position classification, discipline, Performance Appraisal,
Promotion, Pay and Service Conditions; employer- employee relations,
grievance redressal mechanism integrity and code of conduct. XII Financial administration : Monetary and fiscal policies. Resource
mobilisation : tax and non-tax sources. Public borrowings and public debt.
Concepts and types of budget. Preparation and execution of the budget.
Deficit financing Performance budgeting. Legislative control, Accounts and
Audit.
Paper-II
Indian Administration
Section-A
1. Evolution of Indian Administration Kautilya, Mughal period, British
legacy.
2. Constitutional framework value premises of the Constitution,
Parliamentary democracy, federalism, Planning. Human Rights : National Human
Rights Commission.
3. Union Government and Administration President Prime Minister, Council of
Ministers, Cabinet committees, Cabinet Secretariat, Prime Ministers Office,
Central Secretariat, Ministries and Departments, Advisory Bodies, Boards and
Commissions, Field Organizations.
4. State Government and Administration�Governor, Chief Minsiter, Council of
Ministers, Chief Secretary, State Secretariat Directorates.
5. District Administration Changing role of the District Collector : Law and
Order and Development Management. Relationship with functional departments.
District administration and the Panchayati Raj institutions. Role and
functions of the Sub-Divisional Officer.
6. Local Government : Panchayati Raj and Urban Local Government. Structures,
Functions, finances. Main features of 73rd and 74th Constitutional
Amendements : Problems of implementation. Major rural and urban development
programmes and their management.
7. Public Sector : Forms of public undertakings. Their contribution to the
economy; problems of autonomy and accountability. Changing role of the
Public Sector in the context of liberalisation.
Section-B
8 Public Services : All India Services Constitutional position , role and
functions. Central Services : nature and functions. Union Public Service
Commission. State Services and the State Public Service Commissions.
Training in the changing context of governance.
9. Control of Public Expenditure. Parliamentary control Estimates Committee,
Public Accounts Committee, Committee on Public Undertakings, Office of the
Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Role of the Finance Ministry in
monetary and fiscal policy area, co-ordination and economy in expenditure.
10. Administrative Reforms : Reforms since independence. Reports of the
Administrative Reforms Commission, Problems of implementation.
11. Machinery for Planning : Role, composition and review of functions of
the Planning Commission; Role of the National Development Council. Process
of Plan formulation at Union and State levels. Decentralized planning.
12. Administration of Law and Order : Role of Central and State Agencies in
maintenance of law and order. Criminalisation of politics and
administration.
13. Welfare Administration : Machinery for welfare administration at the
national and state levels. Central Social Welfare Board and the State,
Social Welfare Boards. Special organizations for the welfare of the
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Welfare Programmes for women and
children. Problems of child labor. Role of civil society.
14. Major issues in Indian Administration : problems of Centre-State
Relations; Relationship between political and permanent Executives. Values
in Public Service and Administrative Culture. Lok Pal and Lok Ayuktas.
Development and environmental issues. Impact of information Technology on
Public Administration. Indian Administration and Globalisation.
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