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Pubadd Mains Syllabus
Pubadd Mains Syllabus
Pubadd Mains Syllabus
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
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.
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: