PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION – 2004

(MAIN) PAPER – 1

SECTION A

1.    Answer any THREE of the following in not more than 200 words each:

(a)  “Bureaucracy can exit only where the whole service of the state is removed from the common political life of the people, its chiefs as well as rank and file. Its motives, its objectives, its policy, its standards must be bureaucratic.”-Discuss.

(b)  “Motivation theory is not synonymous with behaviour theory. The motivations are only one class of determinants of behaviour while behaviour is almost always motivated, it is also almost always biologically, culturally and situationally determined as well.” Comment

(c)  Delegated Legislation is not absolute. Explain.

(d)  Public Policy is not an independent variable and human history shows little evidence of systematic learning from policy experience. Discuss

2     Democracy and good governance are contradictions in terms. Discuss with examples.

3     Weber’s ideas of impersonal detachment and esprit de corps are incompatible. Explain.

4     Discuss the legal and political implications of Right to information. Is it a feasible concept in the developing countries?

                                                            SECTION B

5. Answer on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:

(a) Policy is a decision driven model of research use. Explain.

(b) Civil Service neutrality is a thing of the Past. Discuss.

(c) Recruitment is the backbone of Public Administration Explain

(d) The administrator needs autonomy and discretion in much the same way as the politician needs control and intervention. Discuss.

6.   What is Information Technology? Describe its impact on Public Administration.

7. Explain the meaning, significance and models of Comparative Public Administration

8.   Describe the changing profile of Development Administration and identify its efforts towards people’s empowerment.

PAPER – II 2004

SECTION A

1.    Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:

(a)  The main features of British governmental and administrative systems continue to influence the present Administrative System.”

(b)  “The National Human Rights Commission is unable to play its role effectively due to various hindrances.”

(c)  “Presidents of India prior to the passage of 42^nd and 44^th amendment could afford to be more assertive.”

(d)  “The highly significant and elevated position of Chief Secretary is significantly undermined in practice today.”

2.    “The position of Governors towards exercising their discretion and powers has considerably changed after 1967.”Discuss.

3.    (a) The district officers as a chief agent and representative of state serves as a channel of communication between the government and the resident of the district.” Explain.

(b) “In the context of liberalization the role of Public Sector and its welfarist approach is being drastically changed.” Elucidate.

4.   “The special development programmes taken up for poverty alleviation with a hope that benefits of these programmes may reach to the people living below poverty line-have utterly failed to achieve its objectives.” Comment

                                                            SECTION B

5. Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:

(a)  “The estimate Committee is – ‘a continuous economy committee’”

(b)   “Values, more than techniques are the eventual determinants of the actions of the administrators.”

(c)   “National Development Council was established to coordinate between Union government, the Planning Commission and the State governments.”

(d)  “Criminalization of politics has been responsible for the problems related to law and order in our nation.”

6.   “Welfare of the people has been a constitutional and legal obligation of the state, wherein-both the Centre and the State Governments are required to discharge the obligation within available resources.” Does this stand true in the context of globalization?

7. (a) “In spite of valuable suggestions through Administrative Reforms, still we have not been able to come up to the expectations of the people.” Discuss.

(b) “Effective implementation of plan projects has been the weakest link in the chain of the entire planning programme.” Elucidate.

8.   “One of the greatest weakness inherent in a federal polity is the possibility of conflict of loyalty and responsibility on the part of public servants as between Central and State Governments.” Elaborate and comment.