SYLLABUS FOR UNION
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION MAIN EXAMINATION
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PAPER
– I
Administrative
Theory
1.
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 liberalization,
Privatisation, Globalisation; Good
Governance:
concept and application; New Public Management.
2.
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).
3.
Administrative Behaviour:
Process
and techniques of decision-making; Communication; Morale; Motivation Theories –
content, process and contemporary; Theories of Leadership: Traditional and
Modern.
4.
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.
5.
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.
6.
Administrative Law:
Meaning,
scope and significance; Dicey on Administrative law; Delegated legislation;
Administrative
Tribunals.
7.
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.
8.
Development Dynamics:
Concept
of development; Changing profile of development administration;
‘Antidevelopment
thesis’;
Bureaucracy and development; Strong state versus the market debate; Impact of
liberalisation on administration in developing countries; Women and development
- the self-help group movement.
9.
Personnel Administration:
Importance
of human resource development; Recruitment, training, career advancement,
position classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pay and
service conditions; employer- employee relations, grievance redressal
mechanism; Code of conduct;
Administrative
ethics.
10.
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.
11.
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.
12.
Financial Administration:
Monetary
and fiscal policies; Public borrowings and public debt Budgets – types and
forms; Budgetary process; Financial accountability; Accounts and audit.
PAPER
- II
Indian
Administration
1.
Evolution of Indian Administration:
Kautilya’s
Arthashastra; Mughal administration; Legacy of British rule in politics and
administration - Indianization of public services, revenue administration,
district administration, local self-government.
2.
Philosophical and Constitutional framework of government:
Salient
features and value premises; Constitutionalism; Political culture; Bureaucracy
and democracy; Bureaucracy and development.
3.
Public Sector Undertakings:
Public
sector in modern India; Forms of Public Sector Undertakings; Problems of
autonomy, accountability and control; Impact of liberalization and
privatization.
4.
Union Government and Administration:
Executive,
Parliament, Judiciary - structure, functions, work processes; Recent trends;
Intragovernmental relations; Cabinet Secretariat; Prime Minister’s Office;
Central Secretariat; Ministries and Departments; Boards; Commissions; Attached
offices; Field organizations.
5.
Plans and Priorities:
Machinery
of planning; Role, composition and functions of the Plannng Commission and the
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.
6.
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.
7.
District Administration since Independence:
Changing
role of the Collector; Unionstate- local relations; Imperatives of development
management and law and order administration; District administration and
democratic decentralization.
8.
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.
9.
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.
10.
Administrative Reforms since Independence:
Major
concerns; Important Committees and Commissions; Reforms in financial management
and human resource development; Problems of implementation.
11.
Rural Development:
Institutions
and agencies since independence; Rural development programmes: foci and
strategies; Decentralization and Panchayati Raj; 73rd Constitutional amendment.
12.
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.
13.
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;
Police-public relations; Reforms in Police.
14.
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.
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