PUBLIC
ADMINISTARTION 2008
PAPER
- 1
SECTION
A
1. Answer any three of the following
questions in not more than 200 words each:
(a) “Calling Woodrow Wilson, the father of
Public Administration is doing injustice to equally or even more eminent
contributions made prior to him.” Comment.
(b) “Leaders do the right things, managers
do them rightly.”(Bennis) Comment.
(c) “Mary Parker Follett was far ahead of
her times.” Discuss.
(d) “Instruments of Public accountability
can be truly effective only if the people and their associations, backed by a
responsible media, are assertively proactive,” Comment.
2. “In the last two decades, almost all
countries of the world have experienced transformation in their administrative
system.” Explain this phenomenon with examples from the developed and the
developing nations in the context of New Public Management Movement.
3. Examine the respective roles of facts
and values in the decision-making process. Is it possible to make value-free
decisions in government system? How can government decisions be made more
rational?
4. “To claim that a company or a
corporation form is always more effective than a departmental form of
organisation is an outdated view. The real test of a sound structure is its
capacity to balance decisional autonomy and operational flexibility with
optimal accountability.” Critically examine this statement.
SECTION
B
5. Answer any three of the following
questions in not more than 200 words each:
(a) “Laxity in monitoring and evaluation
can render even the best policies infructuous.” Discuss.
(b) “e-governance has the potentiality to
emerge as the most effective in structure of efficiency, transparency and
accountability.” Comment.
(c) “Truly comparative administrative
studies are empirical, nomothetic and ecological.”(Riggs) In this perspective,
examine the current status of Comparative Public Administration.
(d) “Training has proved its incapacity to
change the attitudes, behaviour and values of civil servants.” Do you agree
with this statement?
6. “To talk of administration
modernization and still continue with the conventional practice of public
personnel administration is a grass incongruity.” Offer suggestions to initiate
radical reforms in Human Resource management of public administration system.
7. “Good economics and bad politics
cannot coexist in a sound budgetary process.” Discuss this statement in the
context of the developmental challengers in countries experiencing competitive
politics.
8. “In certain discourses, there is a
reflected basic distrust against bureaucracy as an instrument of development.”
Do you think bureaucracy is more appropriate for regulatory administration than
for development administration in a liberalizing environment, what role of
bureaucracy can be envisaged?
PAPER
– II - 2008
SECTION
- A
1. Answer any three of the following in
not more than 200 words each:
(a) “The shift from Nehruvian to the
liberalization model of development has necessitated reinventing government.”
Comment.
(b) ‘Economic Development and Social
Justice are the hallmarks of the 1992 Constitutional Amendment Acts’ Elucidate.
(c) “District Administration is like a
small tortoise carrying the load of an elephant.’ Discuss.
(d) ‘Some features of Mughal
Administration, in essence, do exist in Indian Administration. Elaborate.
2. There is constant and continuous
collision between bureaucratic values and democratic vales which adversely
affects development. In the light of this statement examine the role of
bureaucracy in development.
3. (a) What are the tension areas in Union- state relations in planning?
(b) Discuss
the problems in the planning process at the state and sub state levels.
4. ‘The
Chief Minister is the real executive of the State, whose effectiveness is
largely related to his personality traits and equation with central
leadership.’ Explain and illustrate with relevant examples.
SECTION
B
5. Answer
any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) In
urban governance, uni-functional agencies and development authorities create a
“functional jungle.” Explain
(b) ‘In
India, there appears to be more disaster of management than management of disaster.’
Comment
(c)
“The budget is more than the economic horoscope of the nation.’ Comment
(d) ‘Right
to information Act has led to greater transparency and accountability of
administration.’ Comment
6. (a)
‘Training of civil servants for capacity building should be in consonance with
the needs of the socio-economic and technological development of the country.’
Explain.
(b) What
are the basic hurdles and pitfalls in the implementation of the national Rural
Employment Guarantee Act?
7.
Describe the changing character and new orientations of Public services in India since Independence.
8. New
Localism is identified with the new Local State and local activism. Examine how
this has impacted city management in India.
