Mizoram Civil Services Examination Syllabus
Optional Paper - Public Administration
PAPER – I
(Administrative Theory)
PART – A
Unit I: Introduction:
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.
Unit II : Administrative Thought:
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); Simon’s decision-making theory; Participative
Management (R. Likert, C.Argyris, D.McGregor).
Unit III : Administrative Behaviour and Organisational patterns : Process and techniques of decision-making; Communication; Morale;
Motivation Theories – content, process and contemporary; Theories of Leadership, Ministries and Departments, Corporations, Companies, Boards and Commissions; Ad hoc and advisory bodies; Headquarters and Field relationships; Regulatory Authorities; Public - Private
Partnerships.
Unit IV : Accountability - control and Administrative Law:
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. Administrative
Law - Meaning, scope and significance; Delegated legislation; Administrative Tribunals.
PART - B
Unit I : Comparative Public Administration and Development Dynamics: 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. Concept of development; Changing profile of development administration; ‘Anti-development thesis’;
Bureaucracy and development; Strong state versus the market debate; Impact of liberalisation on administration in developing countries;
Women and development - their participation in political leadership.
Unit II : Personnel Administration:
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.
Unit III: Public Policy and Techniques of Administrative Improvement:
Models of policy-making and their critique; Processes of conceptualisation, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review and their limitations; State theories and public policy formulation. Organisation and methods, Work study and work management; e- governance and information technology; Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.
Unit IV : Financial Administration:
Monetary and fiscal policies; Public borrowings and public debt Budgets
- types and forms; Budgetary process; Financial accountability;
Accounts and audit.
PAPER – II
(Indian Administration )
PART - A
Unit I : Evolution of Indian Administration:
Kautilya’s Arthashastra; Mughal administration; Legacy of British rule in politics and administration - Indianization of public services, revenue administration, district administration, local self-government; Philosophical and Constitutional Framework of government - Salient features and value premises; Constitutionalism; Political culture; Bureaucracy and democracy.
Unit II : Union Government and Administration:
Executive, Parliament, Judiciary - structure, functions, work processes; Recent trends; Intragovernmental relations; Cabinet Secretariat; Prime Minister’s Office; Central Secretariat; Ministries and Departments; Boards and Commissions; Attached offices; Field organizations; Forms of Public Sector Undertakings
Unit III: State Government and Administration:
Union-State administrative, legislative and financial relations; Role of the Finance Commission; Governor; Chief Minister; Council of Ministers; Chief Secretary; State Secretariat; Directorates. District Administration since
Independence - Changing role of the Collector; Union-state-local relations;
Imperatives of development management and law and order administration; District administration and democratic decentralization.
Unit IV : Civil Services:
Constitutional position; Structure, recruitment, training and capacitybuilding; Good governance initiatives; Code of conduct and discipline; Staff associations; Political rights; Grievance redressal mechanism; Civil service neutrality; Civil service activism. Administrative Reforms since
Independence: Major concerns; Important Committees and Commissions;
Reforms in financial management and human resource development and
Problems of implementation.
PART - B
Unit I : Planning and financial Management: Budget as a political instrument; Parliamentary control of public expenditure; Role of finance Ministry; Accounting techniques; Audit; Role of Controller General of Accounts and Comptroller and Auditor General of India. 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.
Unit II : Rural and Urban Local Bodies :
Institutions and agencies since independence; Rural development programmes: foci and strategies; Decentralization and Panchayati Raj; 73rd
Constitutional amendment. Municipal governance: main features, structures, finance and problem areas; 74th Constitutional Amendment;
District Planning Committee; global-local debade.
Unit III : Law and Order Administration:
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.
Unit IV: Significant issues in Indian Administration:
Values in public service; Regulatory Commissions; National Human Rights Commission; Problems of administration in coalition regimes; Citizenadministration interface; Corruption and administration; Disaster management
