Issues in Public Administration Option (A)

Unit I

There will one compulsory question in the UNIT-I and it will be Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) type and will be based on the syllabus prescribed in other four units (UNIT-II to UNIT- V) of the syllabus.

Unit II

Accountability in Public Administration: Parliamentary, Executive and Judicial Control over Administration. Lok Pal and Lok Ayukta.

Unit III

Integrity in Administration: Means and Agencies for checking Corruption at Union and State Level.

Unit IV

Emerging Issues: Good Governance, Right to Information. Consumer Protection Act, 2005.

Unit V

Political and Permanent Executive. Generalists and Specialist Relationship. Administrative Reforms.

Books Recommended:

  1. Administrative Reforms Commission, 1968. Report on the Machinery Government of India and its procedures of work.
  2. Basu, Durga Das, 2004, Introduction to the Constitution of India, Twelth Edition; Prentice Hall of India: New Delhi.
  3. Battacharya Mohit, 1987, Public Administration: Structure, Process and Behaviour, The World Press Pvt. Ltd., Calcutta.
  4. Bhambri C.P. 1985. Public Administration, Educational Publishers: Meerut.
  5. Chanda, Ashok. 1968. Indian Administration; G. Allen and Unwin: London.
  6. Chaturvedi, T.N. 1980. Secrecy in Government, IIPA, New Delhi.
  7. Jabbra, Joseph G. and Dwivedi, O.P. (ed) 1998, Public Service Accountability, Kumarian Press Inc., Bloonfield CT, U.S.A.
  8. Jain R.B. 1976, Contemporary Issues in Public Administration; Vishal Publications: New Delhi.
  9. Kothari, Shanti and Ramashray Roy, 1969, Relations between Politicians and Administrators at the District level; IIPA and the Centre for Applied Politics: New Delhi.
  10. Maheshwari, Shriram. 1990. Indian Administration: Orient Longman: New Delhi.
  11. Paul, S, 1994, Strengthening Public Accountability: New Approaches and Mechanisms. Public Affairs Centre, Banglore.
  12. Peters, Gay B. and Donald J. Savoie (Eds.), 1995, Governance in a Changing environment, Mcgnill-Queen’s University, Press, Montreal/Kingston.
  13. Rosen, Barnard, 1998, Holding Government Bureaucracies Accountable, Praeger, New York.
  14. Sahni, Pradeep and Medury Uma (eds.) 2003, Governance for Development Issues and Strategies, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.
  15. Shedler, Andreas, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, 1999, The Self Restraining State: Power and accountability in New Democracies, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder, Colorado.
  16. Singh Hoshiar and Singh Mohinder, 1989. Public Administration in India. Theory and Practice, Sterling Publishers: New Delhi.
  17. Tandon Rajesh and Mohanty Ranjita (Eds.) 2003, Civil Society and Governance Issues and Problems, Sage, New Delhi.
  18. Turner M. and D. Hulrne, 1997, Governance, Administration and Development: Making the State work. Kumarian Press Ltd., West Hartford.

Rural Development Administration Option (B)

Unit I

There will one compulsory question in the UNIT-I and it will be Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) type and will be based on the syllabus prescribed in other four units (UNIT-II to UNIT- V) of the syllabus.

Unit II

Meaning, Concept and Significance of Rural Development Administration. Growth of Rural Development Institutions in India (since Independence).

Unit III

Institutional Arrangement for Rural Development at National, State, District, Block and Village levels. Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of Panchayat at Union Level and Department of Panchayat at State Level, DRDA and Zila Parishad and Gram Panchayat.

Unit IV

Rural Development Programmes: National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Indira Awas Yojna, Swarn Jayanti Gram Swa Rojgaar Yojna.

Unit V

Emerging Issues in Rural Development: Information Technology.

Books Recommended:

  1. Apter, David E. The Politics of Modernization (1965). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
  2. Arya, P.P. and Tondon, B.B. 1998, Human Resource Development, Deep and Deep Publications, New Delhi.
  3. Desai, A.R. 1969, Rural Sociology in India, Popular Prakashan, Bomobay.
  4. Dube, S.C. 1971. “Bureaucracy and Nature Building in Transitional Societies”, Political Development and Social Change, Jolu Willy and Sons, New York.
  5. Kothari, Rajni. Politics in India, Boszton: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.
  6. Maheshwari, S.R., 1951, Rural Development in India, Sage Publications, New Delhi.
  7. Mathur, kuldeep 1982. Bureaucracy and New Agricultural Strategy, Concept Publishers, Concept Publishers Delhi.
  8. Shah, S.M. 1977, Rural Development Planning and Reforms, Abhinar Publications, New Delhi.