Syllabus PubAd Paper 1 (Theory)

1. Introduction:
1. Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration
2. Wilsons vision of Public Administration
3. Evolution of the discipline and its present status
4. New Public Administration
5. Public Choice approach
6. Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation
7. Good Governance: concept and application
8. New Public Management.
2. Administrative Thought:
1. Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement
2. Classical Theory
3. Webers bureaucratic model its critique and post-Weberian Developments
4. Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker Follett)
5. Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others)
6. Functions of the Executive (C.I. Barnard)
7. Simons decision-making theory
8. Participative Management (R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor).
3. Administrative Behaviour:
1. Process and techniques of decision-making
2. Communication
3. Morale
4. Motivation Theories content, process and contemporary
5. Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern.
4. Organisations:
1. Theories systems, contingency
2. Structure and forms: Ministries and Departments, Corporations, Companies,
3. Boards and Commissions
4. Ad hoc and advisory bodies
5. Headquarters and Field relationships
6. Regulatory
7. Authorities
8. Public Private Partnerships.
5. Accountability and control:
1. Concepts of accountability and control
2. Legislative, Executive and Judicial control over administration
3. Citizen and Administration
4. Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations
5. Civil society
6. Citizens Charters
7. Right to Information
8. Social audit.
6. Administrative Law:
1. Meaning, scope and significance
2. Dicey on Administrative law
3. Delegated legislation
4. Administrative Tribunals.
7. Comparative Public Administration: (CPA)
1. Historical and sociological factors affecting administrative systems
2. Administration and politics in different countries
3. Current status of Comparative Public Administration
4. Ecology and administration
5. Riggsian models and their critique.
8. Development Dynamics: (DA)
1. Concept of development
2. Changing profile of development administration
3. Antidevelopment thesis
4. Bureaucracy and development
5. Strong state versus the market debate
6. Impact of liberalisation on administration in developing countries
7. Women and development the self-help group movement.
9. Personnel Administration:
1. Importance of human resource development
2. Recruitment, training, career advancement, position
3. classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pay and service
conditions
4. employer-employee relations, grievance redressal mechanism
5. Code of conduct
6. Administrative ethics.
10.Public Policy:
1. Models of policy-making and their critique
2. Processes of conceptualisation, planning, implementation,
3. monitoring, evaluation and review and their limitations
4. State theories and public policy formulation.
11.Techniques of Administrative Improvement:
1. Organisation and methods, Work study and work management
2. e-governance and information technology
3. Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.
12.Financial Administration:
1. Monetary and fiscal policies
2. Public borrowings and public debt Budgets types and forms
3. Budgetary process
4. Financial accountability
5. Accounts and audit.
Syllabus PubAd Paper 2 (Indian Administration)
1. Evolution of Indian Administration:
1. Kautilyas Arthashastra
2. Mughal administration
3. Legacy of British rule in politics and administration.
4. Indianization of public services
5. revenue administration
6. district administration
7. Local self-government.
2. Philosophical and Constitutional framework of government:
1. Salient features and value premises
2. Constitutionalism
3. Political culture
4. Bureaucracy and democracy
5. Bureaucracy and development.
3. Public Sector Undertakings:
1. Public sector in modern India
2. Forms of Public Sector Undertakings
3. Problems of autonomy, accountability and control
4. Impact of liberalization and privatization.
4. Union Government and Administration:
1. structure, functions, work processes (and Recent trends) of
1. Executive
2. Parliament
3. Judiciary
Intragovernmental relations
Cabinet Secretariat
Prime Ministers Office (PMO)
Central Secretariat
Ministries and Departments
Boards Commissions
Attached offices
Field organizations.
Plans and Priorities:
Machinery of planning
Role, composition and functions of the
0. Planning Commission
1. National Development Council
Indicative planning
Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels
Constitutional Amendments (1992) and decentralized planning for
economic development and social justice.
State Government and Administration:
Union-State relations
0. administrative
1. legislative
2. 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
Unionstate-local relations
Imperatives of development management
law and order administration
District administration
democratic decentralization.
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
Role of 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
Globallocal 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 paramilitary forces in
maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and terrorism
Criminalisation of politics and administration (lolz)
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.