Public Administration Optional Question Paper-1 (1997)
Time Allowed: Three Hours Maximum Marks: 300
Candidates should attempt Questions 1 and 5 which are compulsory, and any three of the remaining questions selecting at least one question from each Section. All questions carry equal marks.
Section A
- Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
- In the science of administration, whether public or private, the basic good is efficiency.
- That is to be a successful administrator one must have a catholic curiosity.
- Once fully established, bureaucracy is among those social structures which are the hardest to destroy.
- Theoretically the Board administration violates the distinction between government and politics because through it politics is injected in the administration.
- Examine the basic postulates of the Human Relations Theory and show how far it differs from the classical theory of organizations.
- Answer the following questions
- Frederick Herzbergs Two-factor theory is more or less an extension of Abraham Maslows theory of motivation. Explain.
- Centralization inclines toward power and domination. Decentralization, on the other hand, inclines toward competition and self-dermination. Discuss.
- How far is it true to state that for a developing democracy the concept of civil service neutrality is outdated; instead there is a need for a civil service with professional competence and commitment?
Section B
- Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
- The controls exercised over administration by legislature are, in sum of greater theoretical than practical efficacy.
- Development administration is basically an action-oriented, goal-oriented administrative system.
- The central concern of administrative law has been the legal limitation of administrative discretion.
- Administrative reforms are induced changes in the machinery of government undertaken in order to bridge the gap between reality and desirability.
- Bring out the importance of Organization and Methods (O & M) . Do you think that there should be a separate O & M organization?
- Answer the following questions
- Time-honoured and yet often not sufficiently appreciated are the fiscal techniques for securing responsible conduct of administrative business. Discuss.
- How far is it true to state that delegated legislation has become a present day necessity and it has come to stay; it is both inevitable and indispensable?
- Policy-making does not end once a decision is made. The implementation of the decision can have just as great an impact on public policy as the decision itself. Discuss.
Public Administration Optional Question Paper-2 (1997)
Time Allowed: Three Hours Maximum Marks: 300
Section A
- Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
- Under the Companys rule a distinction was drawn between Regulation and Non-Regulation Provinces.
- The Preamable to the Constitution is key to open the mind of the markers.
- The Directive Principles of State Policy are socialistic in their direction and content.
- The legislative relations between Union and State governments are more biased towards Union government.
- Examine the motives and intentions of the framers of the Indian Constitution as they opted for the system of parliamentary democracy in India.
- Answer the following questions
- The efficiency of the Cabinet depends to a large extent on the Cabinet Secretariat Elucidate.
- For national planning, the commission type of organisation was deliberately preferred. Examine the Statement.
- The States are constitutionally obliged to ensure that the laws passed by Parliament are implemented. Explain the constitutional position fully.
Section B
- Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
- The main function of the Public Accounts Committee is to ascertain that the money granted by Parliament has been spent the government within the scope of the demand.
- The word Police in the title of the Central Reserve Police Force and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police is a misnomer.
- A singular feature of the 74th Constitutional Amendment is the new role assigned to the urban local bodies in the field of planning.
- The machinery of administrative tribunals has been provided for the purpose of speedy and cheap justice against official excesses.
- Critically examine the role of the Finance Ministry as the custodian of all public revenues.
- Answer the following questions
- The District Rural Development Agency is presently serving as the nodal agency of rural development at the district level. Explain.
- The most momentous recommendation of the Asoka Mehta Committee was the creation of a two-tier system of Panchayati Raj. Examine the statement.
- Trace the origin of the Lokayukta plan and comment on its working.