Public Administration Optional Paper I Syllabus
Topics Sub Topics
Meaning, scope, and Significance of Public Administration syllabus;
Wilson’s Vision of Public Administration;
Evolution of the Discipline and its present status;
New Public Administration;
Introduction
Public Choice Approach;
Challenges of Liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation;
Good Governance: concept and Application;
New Public Management.
Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement;
Classical Theory;
Weber’s bureaucratic model – its critique and post-Weberian
Administrative Thought 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).
Process and techniques of decision-making; Communication;
Morale;
Administrative Behaviour
Motivation Theories – content, process and contemporary;
Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern.
Theories – systems, contingency;
Structure and forms: Ministries and Departments, Corporations,
Companies, Boards and Commissions;
Organisations Ad hoc and advisory bodies;
Headquarters and Field relationships;
Regulatory Authorities;
Public – Private Partnerships.
Concepts of accountability and control;
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial control over administration;
Citizen and Administration;
Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations;
Accountability and control
Civil society;
Citizen’s Charters;
Right to Information;
Social audit.
Meaning, scope, and significance;
Dicey on Administrative law;
Administrative Law
Delegated legislation;
Administrative Tribunals.
Historical and sociological factors affecting administrative systems;
Administration and politics in different countries;
Comparative Public
Current status of Comparative Public Administration;
Administration
Ecology and administration;
Riggsian models and their critique.
Concept of development;
Changing profile of development administration;
‘Anti-development thesis’;
Development Dynamics Bureaucracy and development;
Strong state versus the market debate;
Impact of liberalization on administration in developing countries;
Women and development – the self-help group movement.
Importance of human resource development;
Recruitment, training, career advancement, position classification,
discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pay, and service
Personnel Administration conditions;
Employer-employee relations, grievance redressal mechanism;
Code of conduct;
Administrative ethics.
Models of policy-making and their critique;
Processes of conceptualization, planning, implementation,
Public Policy
monitoring, evaluation, and review and their limitations;
State theories and public policy formulation.
Techniques of Organization and methods, Work study and work management;
Administrative e-governance and information technology;
Improvement Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, and CPM.
Monetary and fiscal policies;
Public borrowings and public debt Budgets – types and forms;
Financial Administration Budgetary process;
Financial accountability;
Accounts and audit.
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Public Administration Optional Paper II Syllabus
Topics Sub Topics
Kautilya’s Arthashastra;
Mughal administration;
Evolution of Indian
Legacy of British rule in politics and administration – Indianization
Administration
of public services, revenue administration, district administration,
local self-government.
Salient features and value premises;
Philosophical and Constitutionalism;
Constitutional framework of Political culture;
government Bureaucracy and democracy;
Bureaucracy and development.
Public sector in modern India;
Forms of Public Sector Undertakings;
Public Sector Undertakings
Problems of autonomy, accountability, and control;
Impact of liberalization and privatization.
Executive, Parliament, Judiciary – structure, functions, work
processes;
Recent trends;
Intragovernmental relations;
Cabinet Secretariat;
Union Government and Prime Minister’s Office;
Administration Central Secretariat;
Ministries and Departments;
Boards;
Commissions;
Attached offices;
Field organizations.
Machinery of planning;
Role, composition, and functions of the Planning Commission
and the National Development Council; ‘
Plans and Priorities Indicative’ planning;
Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels;
Constitutional Amendments (1992) and decentralized planning for
economic development and social justice.
Union-State administrative, legislative, and financial relations;
Role of the Finance Commission;
Governor;
State Government and Chief Minister;
Administration Council of Ministers;
Chief Secretary;
State Secretariat;
Directorates.
The changing role of the Collector;
Union-state-local relations;
District Administration since
Imperatives of development management and law and order
Independence
administration;
District administration and democratic decentralization.
Constitutional position;
Structure, recruitment, training, and capacity-building;
Good governance initiatives;
Code of conduct and discipline;
Civil Services Staff associations;
Political rights;
Grievance redressal mechanism;
Civil service neutrality;
Civil service activism.
Budget as a political instrument;
Parliamentary control of public expenditure;
Role of finance ministry in the monetary and fiscal area;
Financial Management Accounting techniques;
Audit;
Role of Controller General of Accounts and Comptroller and
Auditor General of India.
Major concerns;
Important Committees and Commissions;
Administrative Reforms Since
Reforms in financial management and human resource
Independence
development;
Problems of implementation.
Institutions and agencies since independence;
Rural development programs: foci and strategies;
Rural Development
Decentralization and Panchayati Raj;
73rd Constitutional amendment.
Municipal governance: main features, structures, finance, and
problem areas; 74th Constitutional Amendment;
Global-local debate;
Urban Local Government
New localism;
Development dynamics, politics, and administration with special
reference to city management.
British legacy;
National Police Commission;
Investigative agencies;
Role of central and state agencies including paramilitary forces in
Law and Order Administration maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and
terrorism;
Criminalisation of politics and administration;
Police-public relations;
Reforms in Police.
Values in public service;
Regulatory Commissions;
National Human Rights Commission;
Significant issues in Indian
Problems of administration in coalition regimes;
Administration
Citizen-administration interface;
Corruption and administration;
Disaster management.
