C.S.

E-Mains 1987
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PAPER - I
SECTION A
1. Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) The law of Graicunas about the span of relationships in an organisation state
s a partial truth.
(b) Contributions of Meslow and Hertzberg have depended our understanding about t
he State of
morale and motivation of the public servants.
(c) Whitleyism represents a typical British response to Trade Unionism by public
servants. /
(d) The distinction between line and staff is a distinction without a difference.
2. Deductive-nomological and inductive-probabilistic approaches dominate new publ
ic
administration. (Marini) Discuss.
3. (a) Describe the institutional and organizational consequences of delegation
of authority.
(b) Scientific Management is a primitive tool for industrial polyarchies. (Dahi).
Explain.
4. The first stage (in administrative decision-making) is what I call Intelligence ,
the second
represents Designin and the last stage is Choice . Critically examine the Sirnonian M
odel of
Rational Decision-Making in administration.
SECTION B
5. Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) The financial administration in modern times needs updating administrative cy
bernetics and
Audit reforms.
(b) The Judicial Control over administration operates through a system of writs.
(c) The Droit Administrative violates Diceys basic principles of Rule of Law.
(d) And therefore Modern Civilization has an unprecedented need of Organization
Development. (OD).
6. Define Public Policy. How does its formulation and implementation involve par
ticipation by
administrators, voluntary agencies and pressure groups in a democracy?
7. (a) Explain Performance Budgeting and illustrate its need and utility in deve
lopment
administration.
(b) Distinguish between administrative development and administration of develop
ment. In what
way is the former supplementary to the latter in a Prismatic Society?
8. Critically examine the functions of administrative leadership. What role does
communication play in
improving the quality of administrative decisions in goal setting and goal getti
ng by public servants?
PAPER - II
SECTION A
1. Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) It is not possible to maintain that the administrative system, described in A
rthashastra was in
actual existence during the Mouryan period .
(b) Even though law and order administration is a State subject in the Indian Con
mstitution it is
paradoxical that the para-military and other kinds of security forces under the
Union
Government have surgeoned in recent years.
(c) Though the legislature and the executive rule as well as administer, the Civi

l Servants only
administer and do not rule.
(d) The poor performance of Public Undertakings in the Core Sectors of Indian eco
nomy has
sparked off problems of political accountability and labour participation in man
agement.
2. Trace the evolution of the system of Public Administration in India from 1858
to 1919, highlighting
the major landmarks of this period of administrative history.
3. (a) Examine the inadequacies of machinery for planning to ensure democratic b
ut depoliticized
planning process in Indian federation. How does National Development Council acc
entuate
or inhibit this process?
(b) The objective and methods of higher Civil service training hardly match with
the personnel
policies and man-power planning by government of India. Discuss.
4. Discuss the financial and administrative relationships obtaining between the
Union and the States in
India. Do you think States have been reduced to a position of glorified municipa
lities?
SECTION B
5. Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) The role of District Collector has changed but not diminished for now he has
an additional
function of guiding democratic bodies and has to carry conviction with members o
f these
democratic institutions.
(b) The administrative problems of Integrated Rural Development Program include t
he most
fatal but common cold of public administration
the sheer difficulty of doing ord
inary
things.
(c) The Panchayati Raj bodies do provide an appropriate forum for effecting welfa
re of Weaker
Sections, including the members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes through
decisionmaking
and programme implementation processes at local level.
(d) Generalism in Civil Service is a powerful bulwark against committed bureaucra
cy.
6. What do you understand by Peoples participation in administration ? Suggest measu
res to sensitize
administrators to citizen s grievances and enlist co-operation from voluntary agen
cies.
7. (a) The role of the Chief Secretary as Principal Co-ordinate in State administ
ration is
comparable with that of the Cabinet Secretary in Union Government. Do you agree o
r not?
Give reasons.
(b) What have you to suggest making legislative control over public administrati
on healthy and
purposeful?
8. The public administration perspective of urban areas has primarily been concer
ned with the
problems of their multiple structures and working relationships in the field. Exa
mine the validity of
this observation.