Paper 1:
Administration Theory
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 liberalisation, Privatisation, Globalisation;
- Good Governance: concept and application;
- New Public Management.
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.)
Administrative Behaviour
- Process and techniques of decision-making;
- Communication;
- Morale;
- Motivation Theories content, process and contemporary;
- Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern.
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.
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.
Administrative Law
- Meaning, scope and significance;
- Dicey on Administrative law;
- Delegated legislation;
- Administrative Tribunals.
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.
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 of the self-help group movement.
Personnel Administration
- Importance of human resource development;
- Recruitment, training, career advancement, position classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pray and service conditions;
- Employer-employee relations, grievance redressal mechanism;
- Code of conduct;
- Administrative ethics.
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.
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.
Financial Administration
- Monetary and Fiscal Policies: Public borrowings and public debt Budgets types and forms;
- Budgetary process;
- Financial accountability;
- Accounts and audit.
Paper 2:
Indian Administration
Evolution of Indian Administration
- Kautilya Arthashastra;
- Mughal administration;
- Legacy of British rule in politics and administration Indianization of Public services, revenue administration, district Administration, local self-Government.
Philosophical and Constitutional framework of Government
- Salient features and value premises;
- Constitutionalism;
- Political culture;
- Bureaucracy and democracy;
- Bureaucracy and development.
Public Sector Undertakings
- Public sector in modern India;
- Forms of Public Sector Undertakings;
- Problems of autonomy, accountability and control;
- Impact of liberalisation and privatisation.
Union Government and Administration
- Executive, Parliament, Judiciary-structure, functions, work processes;
- Recent trends;
- Intra-governmental relations;
- Cabinet Secretariat;
- Prime Minister’s Office;
- Central Secretariat;
- Ministries and Departments;
- Boards;
- Commissions;
- Attached offices;
- Field organisations.
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 decentralised planning for economic development and social justice.
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.
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 decentralisation.
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.
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.
Administrative Reforms since Independence
- Major concerns;
- Important Committees and Commissions;
- Reforms in financial management and human resource development;
- Problems of implementation.
Rural Development
- Institutions and agencies since Independence;
- Rural development programmes: foci and strategies;
- Decentralization and Panchayati Raj;
- 73rd Constitutional amendment.
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.
Law and Order Administration
- British legacy;
- National Police Commission;
- Investigative agencies;
- Role of Central and State Agencies including para military forces in maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and terrorism;
- Criminalisation of politics and administration;
- Police-public relations;
- Reforms in Police.
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.