IAS EXAMINATION PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OPTIONAL PAPERS SYLLABUS
PAPER-VI & PAPER VII
Optional Subject Papers I & II
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PAPER-I
ADMINISTRATION THEORY
1. INTRODUCTION :
Ø Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration,
Ø Wilson’s vision of Public Administration,
Ø Evolution of the discipline and its present status.
Ø New Public Administra-tion, Public Choice approach;
Ø Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation;
Ø Good Governance:
· concept and application;
· New Public Management.
2. ADMINISTRATIVE THOUGHT :
Ø Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement;
Ø Classical Theory;
Ø Weber’s bureaucratic model its critique and post-Weberian Developments;
Ø Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker Follett);
Ø Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others);
Ø Functions of the Executive (C.I. Barnard);
Ø Simon’s decision-making theory;
Ø Participative Management (R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor.)
3. ADMINISTRATIVE BEHAVIOUR :
Ø Process and techniques of decision-making;
Ø Communication;
Ø Morale;
Ø Motivation Theories content, process and contemporary;
Ø Theories of Leadership:
Ø Traditional and Modem
4. ORGANISATIONS:
Ø Theories systems, contingency;
Ø 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 :
Ø Concepts of accountability and control;
Ø Legislative, Executive and judicial control over administration;
Ø Citizen and Administration;
Ø Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations;
Ø Civil society;
Ø Citizen’s Charters;
Ø Right to Information;
Ø Social audit.
6. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW :
Ø Meaning, scope and significance;
Ø Dicey on Administrative law;
Ø Delegated legislation;
Ø Administrative Tribunals.
7. COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION :
Ø Historical and sociological factors affecting administrative systems;
Ø Administration and politics in different coun-tries;
Ø Current status of Comparative Public Administration;
Ø Ecology and administration;
Ø Riggsian models and their critique.
8. DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS :
Ø Concept of development;
Ø Changing profile of development administration;
Ø ‘Anti-development thesis’;
Ø Bureaucracy and development;
Ø Strong state versus the market debate;
Ø Impact of liberalization on administration in developing countries;
Ø Women and development the self-help group movement.
9. PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION :
Ø Importance of human resource development;
ØRecruitment, training, career advancement, position classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pray and service conditions;
Ø employer-employee relations, grievance redressal mechanism;
Ø Code of conduct; Administrative ethics.
10. PUBLIC POLICY :
Ø Models of policy-making and their critique;
Ø Processes of conceptualization, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review, and their limitations;
Ø State theories and public policy formulation.
11. TECHNIQUES OF ADMINISTRATIVE IMPROVEMENT :
Ø Organisation and methods, Work study and work management;
Ø e-governance and information technology;
Ø Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.
12. FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION :
Ø 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 :
Ø Kautilya Arthashastra;
Ø Mughal administration;
Ø 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 :
Ø Salient features and value premises; Constitutionalism;
Ø Political culture;
Ø Bureaucracy and democracy;
Ø Bureaucracy and development.
3. PUBLIC SECTOR UNDERTAKINGS :
Ø Public sector in modern India;
Ø Forms of Public Sector Undertakings;
Ø Problems of autonomy, accountability, and control;
Ø Impact of liberalization and privatization.
4. UNION GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION :
Ø Executive, Parliament, Judiciary-structure, functions, work processes;
Ø Recent trends;
Ø Intra-governmental relations;
Ø Cabinet Secretariat;
Ø Prime Minister’s Office;
Ø Central Secretariat;
Ø Ministries and Departments; Boards; Commissions; Attached offices; Field organizations.
5. PLANS AND PRIORITIES :
Ø Machinery of planning;
Ø Role, composition and functions of the Planning Commission and the National Development Council;
Ø ‘Indicative’ planning;
Ø Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels;
Ø Constitutional Amendments (1992) and decentralized planning for economic development and social justice.
6. STATE GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION :
Ø Union-State administrative, legislative and financial relations;
Ø Role of the Finance Commission;
Ø Governor;
Ø Chief Minister;
Ø Council of Ministers;
Ø Chief Secretary;
Ø State Secretariat;
Ø Directorates.
7. DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION SINCE INDEPENDENCE :
Ø Changing role of the Collector;
Ø Union-State-local relations;
Ø Imperatives of development management and law and order administration;
Ø District administration and democratic decentralization.
8. CIVIL SERVICES :
Ø Constitutional position;
Ø Structure, recruitment, training and capacity building;
Ø Good governance initiatives;
Ø Code of conduct and discipline;
Ø Staff associations;
Ø Political rights;
Ø Grievance redressal mechanism;
Ø Civil service neutrality;
Ø Civil service activism.
9. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT :
Ø Budget as a political instrument;
Ø Parliamentary control of public expenditure;
Ø Role of the finance ministry in a monetary and fiscal area;
Ø Accounting techniques;
Ø Audit;
Ø Role of Controller General of Accounts and Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
10. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS SINCE INDEPENDENCE :
Ø Major concerns; Important Committees and Commissions;
Ø Reforms in financial management and human resource development;
Ø Problems of implementation.
11. RURAL DEVELOPMENT :
Ø Institutions and agencies since Independence;
Ø Rural development programmes: foci and strategies;
Ø Decentralization and Panchayati Raj;
Ø 73rd Constitutional amendment.
13. URBAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT :
Ø Municipal governance:
· the 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.
14. LAW AND ORDER ADMINISTRATION:
Ø British legacy;
Ø National Police Commission;
Ø Investigative agencies;
Ø Role of Central and State Agencies including paramilitary forces in the maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and terrorism;
Ø Criminalisation of politics and administration;
Ø Police-public relations; Reforms in Police.
15. SIGNIFICANT ISSUES IN INDIAN ADMINISTRATION:
Ø Values in public service;
Ø Regulatory Commissions;
Ø National Human Rights Commission;
Ø Problems of administration in coalition regimes;
Ø Citizen administration interface;
Ø Corruption and administration;
Ø Disaster management.
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