{"id":3488,"date":"2021-05-17T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2021-05-22T01:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T19:52:57","slug":"upsc-cse-public-administration-syllabus-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/upsc-cse-public-administration-syllabus-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Administration Syllabus | UPSC CSE 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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UPSC Public Administration Syllabus: Paper I (Administrative Theory)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
1. Introduction:<\/strong><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
2. Administrative Thought:<\/strong><\/td>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); Simons decision-making theory; Participative Management (R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor).<\/td><\/tr>
3. Administrative Behaviour:<\/strong> <\/td>Process and techniques of decision-making; Communication; Morale; Motivation Theories content, process and contemporary; Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern.<\/td><\/tr>
4. Organizations:<\/strong><\/td>Theories systems, contingency; 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.<\/td><\/tr>
5. Accountability and control:<\/strong><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
6. Administrative Law:<\/strong><\/td>Meaning, scope, and significance; Dicey on Administrative law; Delegated legislation; Administrative Tribunals.<\/td><\/tr>
7. Comparative Public Administration:<\/strong><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
8. Development Dynamics:<\/strong><\/td>Concept of development; Changing profile of development administration; Anti development thesis; Bureaucracy and development; Strong state versus the market debate; Impact of liberalization on administration in developing countries; Women and development – the self-help group movement.<\/td><\/tr>
9. Personnel Administration:<\/strong> <\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
10. Public Policy:<\/strong><\/td>Models of policy-making and their critique; Processes of conceptualization, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review, and their limitations; State theories and public policy formulation.<\/td><\/tr>
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11. Techniques of Administrative Improvement:<\/strong><\/td>Organisation and methods, Work study and work management; e-governance and information technology; Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.<\/td><\/tr>
12. Financial Administration:<\/strong><\/td>Monetary and fiscal policies; Public borrowings and public debt Budgets – types and forms; Budgetary process; Financial accountability; Accounts and audit.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

UPSC Public Administration Syllabus: Paper II (Indian Administration)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Evolution of Indian Administration:<\/strong><\/td>Kautilya s Arthashastra; Mughal administration; Legacy of British rule in politics and administration – Indianization of public services, revenue administration, district administration, local self-government.<\/td><\/tr>
2. Philosophical and Constitutional framework of government:<\/strong><\/td>Salient features and value premises; Constitutionalism; Political culture; Bureaucracy and democracy; Bureaucracy and development.<\/td><\/tr>
3. Public Sector Undertakings:<\/strong><\/td>Public sector in modern India; Forms of Public Sector Undertakings; Problems of autonomy, accountability and control; Impact of liberalization and privatization.<\/td><\/tr>
4. Union Government and Administration:<\/strong><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
5. Plans and Priorities:<\/strong><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
6. State Government and Administration:<\/strong><\/td>Union-State administrative, legislative and financial relations; Role of the Finance Commission; Governor; Chief Minister; Council of Ministers; Chief Secretary; State Secretariat; Directorates.<\/td><\/tr>
7. District Administration since Independence:<\/strong><\/td>Changing role of the Collector; Union state-local relations; Imperatives of development management and law and order administration; District administration and democratic decentralization.<\/td><\/tr>
8. Civil Services:<\/strong><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
9. Financial Management:<\/strong><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
10. Administrative Reforms since Independence:<\/strong><\/td>Major concerns; Important Committees and Commissions; Reforms in financial management and human resource development; Problems of implementation.<\/td><\/tr>
11. Rural Development:<\/strong> <\/td>Institutions and agencies since independence; Rural development programmes: foci and strategies; Decentralization and Panchayati Raj; 73rd Constitutional amendment.<\/td><\/tr>
12. Urban Local Government:<\/strong><\/td>Municipal governance: main features, structures, finance and problem areas; 74th Constitutional Amendment; Globallocal debate; New localism; Development dynamics, politics and administration with special reference to city management.<\/td><\/tr>
13. Law and Order Administration:<\/strong><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
14. Significant issues in Indian Administration:<\/strong><\/td>Values in public service; Regulatory Commissions; National Human Rights Commission; Problems of administration in coalition regimes; Citizen-administration interface; Corruption and administration; Disaster management.<\/td><\/tr>
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