Public Administration-
Optional
of Part A - Preliminary
Examination of Civil Services Exam 2001 |
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
concepts and principles : Organisation, 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 CI B arnard; 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, people's
participation and Right to Information.
6. Administrative Systems :
Comparative administrative features of USA, Great Britain 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 public debt, Accounts and Audit.
9. Union
Government and Administration inIndia. British legacy : Constitutional
context of Indian Administration; The President, Prime Minister and the
Council of Ministers; Central Secretariat; Cabinet Secretariat, Prime
Minister's Office, Planning Commission; Finance Commission; Election
Commission; Comptroller and Auditor-General of India. Public enterprises:
Patterns, role performance and impact of liberlisation.
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 -
Optional
of Part
B - Main Examination of Civil Services Exam 2001 |
Paper-I
Administrative theory
Section-A
I Introduction : Meaning, scope and significance of
Public Administration, Public and Private Administration, Wilson's 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 Administraiton : Nature and typologies;
Scientific Management (Taylor and the Scientific Management Movement), Classical
Theory (Fayol, Urwick, Gulick and others), Bureaucratic Theory. (Marxist view,
Weber's 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, people's 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,
Rigg's Prismatic-Sala Model; Bureaucracy and Development; Changing profile of
Development Administration; new directions in people's 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
Minister's 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 featues of 73rd and 74rd
Constitutional Amendements : Problemes 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 land 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 labour. 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.