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  • Paper I

    • 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

    • 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 theories

        • Process theories

        • Contemporary theories

      • Theories of leadership

        • Traditional theories

        • Modern theories

    • Organisations

      • Theories

        • Systems theory

        • Contingency theory

      • 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 — the self-help group movement

    • 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

    • 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 II

    • 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

    • 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 liberalization and privatization

    • 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

    • 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 decentralized 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 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 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 paramilitary forces

        • Maintenance of law and order

        • 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