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Paper-II – Indian Administration

April 12, 2020 by BureaucratONE Leave a Comment Last Updated April 12, 2020

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 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.

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
  • Union state-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
  • Global-local 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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