Jharkhand NEP, FYUGP 2022-23 onwards
Major in Political Science
Revised Curriculum and Credit Framework for the Four-Year Undergraduate
Programmes(FYUGP)
As per Provisions of NEP-2020, implemented from the Academic Year 2022-23 onwards (KU
Ref.No.KU/R397/23,dated-14/03/23)
Kolhan University,Chaibasa,Jharkhand
Revised Courses of Study for Four Year Undergraduate Programme 2022-23, Major in
Political Science
w.e.f. 2022-23 Academic Year
Semester wise Course Code, Paper name and Credit Points
Jharkhand, NEP, FYUGP 2022-23
onwards
Table 6: Semester wise Course Code and Credit
Points for Single Major:
Common, Introductory,
Major, Minor, Vocational
Semester & Internship Courses
F.M. P.M. Internal University
Code Papers Credits
Exam.F.M. Exam.F.M.
Language and 50 20 No 50
Communication Internal
Skills (MIL- Exam
AEC-
1)(Modern Indian 2
1
Language
including TRL)
Hindi(50 Marks)
Value added 50 20 No 50
Course-1 50 20 Internal 50
Section-A- Exam
VAC- Understanding
2+2 =4
1 India
Section-B-
Environmental
Science
Skill 75 30 No 75
Enhancement Internal
I SEC-1 3
Course-1 Exam
Digital Education
Multi-disciplinary 75 30 No 75
MDC- Course-1 Internal
3
1 Citizenship and Exam.
Governance
Minor from 100 40 25 75
MN- Discipline-1
4
1A Globalization and
Politics
Major paper 1 100 40 25 75
(Disciplinary/
Interdisciplinary
MJ-1 Major) 4
Understanding
Political Theory
and Politics
Multi-disciplinary Course-1
Citizenship and Governance
Course Code- MDC-1 Full Marks-75
End Sem.UniversityExam-75 Pass Marks-30
No Internal Examination
Credit-3
Paper Name- Citizenship and Governance
Course Objective:
This course will help the students to understand the meaning of good governance and how to
realize this. Inspite of the best of the policy formulations and institutional arrangements, the
government is unlikely to yield good governance if there is no active citizen participation. This
course will not only help the students to learn about several institutional arrangements but will also
equip them with information and techniques of how to apply them for better governance. They
will be able to understand how both citizens and government complement each other in realizing
good governance.
.
Learning Objectives:
1. The students will be able to explain meaning and factors and forces which enable good
governance.
2. The students will be able to know about their rights which have been given to them and how
the exercise of those rights set things right in the functioning of government and delivery of
services to the people.
3. The students will understand the key areas of governance issues
Unit-I: Introduction to Good Governance
a) What is Good Governance?
b) Factors and Models of Good Governance
Unit-II: Democracy and Governance
a). Relationship between democracy and Good Governance
b). Democratic Governance, Environment Governance, Education and Health Governance
Unit-III: State and Citizenship in Governance
a) Role of the state in governance, policy formulations and enforcement of Social
Audit
b) Role of the citizen in Governance: Civic Culture, Citizen Participation and Social
Audit
Unit-IV: Institutional and Legal Arrangements
a) Citizen Charter
b) Right to Information
c) Consumer Protection Act
d) E-Governance
e) Public Service Delivery
f).Lokpal
g) Lokayukta
.
Readings:
Yadav,Sushama And Balwan Gautam, “Lok Prashasan: Siddhant Evam Vyavahar”,Orient
Blckswain, Hyderabad.
Basu,Rumaki “Lok Prshasan”, Jawahar Publication, Delhi.
Sharma,M.P., and B.L. Saana, “Lok Prashasan”, Kitab Mahal, Delhi.
Avasthi and Avasthi, “Public administration”, Laxmi Narayan Agrawal, Agra.
Phadia,B.L., “ Bharatiya Prashasan”, Sahitya Bhawan Agra.
Phadia,B.L., “Bharat Main LokPrashasan”, Sahitya Bhawan Agra.
Fadia,B.L. & K.Fadia, “Lok Prashasan”, Sahitya Bhawan Agra.
Maheswari,S.R., “Indian Administration”, Laxmi Narayan Agrawal, Agra.
White,L.D.,“Introduction to the Study of Public administration”, S. Chand & Company, New
Delhi.
Bhagawan,Vishnu and Vidya Bhushan, “A text Book of Public administration”, S. Chand & Co.
New Delhi.
Bhattacharya,Mohit “Public Administration and Planning”, The World Press Pvt. Ltd., Calctta.
Bhattacharya,Mohit“New Horizons of Public administration”, Jawahar Publisher Delhi.
Avasthi,A & S.R. Maheshwari, “Public Administration”, Agra: Lakshmi Narain Agarwal, (latest
Hindi and English editions)
S. R. Maheswari: Indian Administration.Orient BlackSwan
R.B. Jain: Contemporary Issues in Indian Administration,Vishal Publication
B. Chakrabarty and P. Chand: Indian Administration,Sage Publications
Noorjahan Bava, Development Policies and Administration in India, Uppal Publishing
Satyajit Singh and Pradeep K. Sharma [eds.] Decentralisation: Institutions and Politics inRural
India,Oxford
Basu Rumki: Public Administration in India Mandates, Performance and Future
Perspectives,Sterling Publishers
Maheshwari, S., & Maheswari, S. (1987). Public Policy Making in India. The Indian Journal of
Political Science, 48(3), pp. 336-353.
Frederickson, H. George et al. (2015). Theories of Governance. In The Public Administration
Theory Primer, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, pp. 219-244.
Leftwich, A. (1994). Governance, the State and the Politics of Development. Development and
Change, 25(2), Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp. 363–86.
World Bank Report. (2017). World Development Report: Governance and the Law. Washington.
Keping, Y. (2018). Governance and Good Governance: A New Framework for
Political Analysis. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 11(1), pp.
1–8.
Singh, A.P., & Murari K. (2018). Governance: Issues and Challenges. New Delhi:
Pearson.
Ragi, S. K. (2019). Citizenship and Governance. New Delhi: National Book Trust
Currie, B. (1996). Governance, Democracy and Economic Adjustment in India:
Conceptual and Empirical Problems. Third World Quarterly, 17(4), pp. 787-807.
Leftwich, A. (1993). Governance, Democracy and Development in the Third World.
Third World Quarterly, 14(3), pp. 605-624.
Bevir, M. (2006). Democratic Governance: Systems and Radical Perspectives. Public
Administration Review, 66(3), pp. 426-436.
Faur, D. L. (2012). From “Big Government” to “Big Governance”? The Oxford
Handbook of Governance.
Crow, D. (2009). How Citizens Interact with Their Government and Why We Care.
Public Administration Review, 69(2), pp. 353-355.
Shastri, S. (2002). Citizen Confidence in Political Institutions and Processes in India:
Some Findings from the World Values Survey. The Indian Journal of Political
Science, 63(1), pp. 89-104.
Almond, G., & Verba, S. (1963). The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and
Democracy in Five Nations. Princeton University Press
Haque, M.S. (2007). Limits of the Citizen's Charter in India: The critical impacts of
social exclusion. Journal of Public Management Review, pp. 391-416.
Paul, S. (2008). India's Citizen's Charters: In Search of a Champion. Economic and
Political Weekly, 43(7), pp. 67-73.
Jain, A. (2012). Good Governance and Right to Information: A Perspective. Journal
of the Indian Law Institute, 54(4), pp. 506-519.
Birkinshaw, P. (2006). Freedom of Information and Openness: Fundamental Human
Rights? Administrative Law Review, 58(1), pp. 177-218.
Saxena, I. (1988). The Consumer Protection Act 1986: A Viewpoint. Journal of the
Indian Law Institute, 30(3), pp. 321-331.
Saxena, A. (2005). E-Governance and Good Governance: The Indian Context. The
Indian Journal of Political Science, 66(2), pp. 313-328.
Yadav, S. (2009). Implementing E-Governance in India Exploring the Administrative
Reforms Agenda. The Indian Journal of Political Science, 70(3), pp. 679-692.
176
Paul, S., Suresh Balakrishnan, K. Gopakumar, Sita Sekhar, & M, Vivekananda.
(2004). State of India's Public Services: Benchmarks for the States. Economic and
Political Weekly, 39(9), pp. 920-933.
Sangita, S. (2007). Decentralisation for Good Governance and Service Delivery in
India: Theory and Practice. The Indian Journal of Political Science, 68(3), pp. 447-
464.
Panchu, S. (2011). Lokpal: Where Do We Stand Now, and How We Got Here.
Economic and Political Weekly, 46(41), pp. 19-21.
Panchu, S. (2012). Repairing the Lokpal Bill. Economic and Political Weekly, 47(3),
pp. 10-13.
Nanth, V. (2011). Lokpal Bill Campaign: Democratic and Constitutional. Economic
and Political Weekly, 46(16), pp. 20-22.
Jha, R. R. (2018). India’s Anti-Corruption Authorities: Lokpal and Lokayukta. Indian
Journal of Public Administration, 64(3), pp. 502–517.
Lele, S. et al. (2010). A Structure for Environmental Governance in India: A
Perspective. Economic & Political Weekly, 45(6), pp. 13-16.
Kandpal, P.C. (2018). Environmental Governance in India: Issues and Challenges.
New Delhi: Sage.
Abrol, D. (2010). Governance of Indian Higher Education: An Alternate Proposal.
Social Scientist, 38(9/12), pp. 143-177.
177
Qadeer, I. (2008). Health Planning in India: Some Lessons from the Past. Social
Scientist, 36(5/6), pp. 51-75.
Gupta, M. et al. (2010). How Might India's Public Health Systems Be Strengthened?
Lessons from Tamil Nadu. Economic and Political Weekly, 45(10), pp. 46-60.
Semester-1 total Credits=20 For all Semesters=160 Credits
1 Credit -1-hour Class in a Week
4 Credit - 4 hours Class in a Week
15 weeks 60 hrs Class (60 Lectures)
In a week 3 classes+1 Tutorial=4 Classes
25 Marks Internal Examination may include 20 marks questions from written Examination (1
Hr Exam)/Assignment/Project/Tutorial wherever applicable whereas 5 marks will be awarded
on the attendance/overall class performance in the semester
For End Sem.Examination-75 Marks,3Hrs Exam
There will be two group of questions. Group A is Compulsory which will contain three questions.
Question No.1 will be very short answer type consisting of five questions of 1 mark each. Question
No.2 & 3 will be short answer type of 5 marks. Group B will contain descriptive type six questions
of fifteen marks each, out of which any four are to answer.
Objective type=1*5=5
Short Answer=5*2=10
Long Answer=15*4=60
Total 75
Note: Follow the Revised NEP Guidelines 2023, for details Ref.No.KU/R/397/23,dated-
14/03/23(Enclosed)
