C.S.E-Mains 1993PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONPAPER - ISECTION A1. Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:(a) Waldo speaks of the fears of F.M. Marx that Public administration has grown so board, andso much is involved at its periphery that it stand In danger of disappearing completely as arecognizable focus of study.(b) Though somewhat unwittingly, Herbert Simon and James March have provided the muscleand the flesh to the Weberian (bureaucratic) skeleton.(c) The Hawthorne researches demonstrate the need to analyze organizations as living socialstructures.(d) Decentralization is never just a technical exercise, with intentions and effects neatlyconfined to questions of economy and efficiency.2. How does Public administration differ in the developed and developing societies? How far can itmodernize the traditional political culture of developing countries?3. (a) The transition to a study of the negatives aspects of bureaucracy is afforded by theapplication of Veblens concept of trained incapacity. Examine.(b) While the entrepreneur makes strategic decisions, the manager makes strategic ones.Elucidate.4. A managerial leader should effectively communicate to motivate his team. How do Maslow andHertzberg see this inter linkage between motivation and communication?SECTION B5. Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:(a) Comparative Public administration as a field of research is not so much comparative, as it isthe study of Public administration in foreign countries.(b) Government has numerous ideal objectives, and three of these are closely linked toaccounting and finance: efficiency, effectiveness and equality.(c) The most effective safeguard against the abuse of delegated legislation is not to delegate itin such a manner that it may invite abuse. -(d) The activities of public administrators at various stages of the policy process illustrate thedifficulty of divorcing politics from administration.6. How has the interest of judiciary in administrative decisions grown over the years? Has it extendedthe frontiers of administrative law?7. (a) One way of analyzing implementation problems is to begin by thinking about what perfectadministration would be like, comparable to the way in which economists employ the modelof perfect competition. Discuss.(b) Administrative reforms represent efforts, intended to enhance and/or expand theadministrative and managerial capacity of Public administration to achieve nationalobjectives or goals. Elucidate.8. Explain the principle involved in the preparation of budget Assess the scope of budgetary techniquesin financial management.PAPER - IISECTION A1. Comment upon any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:(a) The British colonial administration superimposed the professorial system on the historicallyinherited district administration in India, in the absence of rural local governments at thedistrict level.(b) The generalist-neutralist model of Civil Service, more than any other model of CivilService, fits in framework of parliamentary democracy in India, a legacy of the Britishpattern with which Indians have been familiar.(c) The concept of Fiscal Federalism calls for the National Development Council to regulatePlan decisions about discretionary grants-in-aid, which should in fact be distributed by theFinance Commission.(d) The Comptroller and Auditor Generals audit of Public Undertakings is an effectiveinstrument of parliamentary control, but the form, content and the approach of this audit haveaffected the efficiency and profitability of the Public Undertakings in India.2. Trace the evolution of Judicial Administration in India during the British period and highlight thelegacies that persist and the judicial reforms that have followed during the Twentieth Century.3. (a) Internal Security is a para-political exercise and a pare military operation in detecting,combating and dissolving Threat Profiles m the area of law and order, social order andnational security. Discuss.(b) The Prime Ministers Office is a staff agency. Its line functions are inconsistent with theSecretariat Systems of administration. Comment.4. Outline in brief the organization and working of the Union Ministry of Finance and offer concretesuggestions for organizational reforms in the light of the new economic policy of liberalization of theCentral Government.SECTION B5. Comment upon any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:(a) A holistic approach to Integrated Rural Development implies strengthening and regulatingthe sectoral and spatial interactions and linkages and transformation of the rural habitat.(b) It is time to rationalize urban bodies in matters of size and distribution of functions with aregional authority taking an overall charge of area-wide problems.(c) Professionalisation Civil Services demand that their training programmes should be taggedwith the Personnel policies of promotion1 placement and career planning at each level.(d) Peoples participation in administration, being a part of the political mobilization process inIndia, is determined by the elite groups at each level of administration.6. Attempt an evaluation of various welfare programmes Sponsored by the Central and Stategovernment and district level agencies, for the development of women and children, accounting fortheir success or failure.7. (a) The incumbents to civil service posts and political offices, who derive, their legitimacy andstrength from intellectual merit and popular support respectively, cannot have identicalperspectives on development. Naturally, therefore, the former has a higher and heavierresponsibility to avoid conflict and preserve integrity in development administrationComment.(b) The departments, the directorates the corporations the companies and the Boards havedifferent organizational purposes and statutory functions in State administration Discuss.8. Discuss some of the State models of Panchayati Raj in the Uniform Constitutional frame of 73rdAmendment with special reference to Panchayati Polls, grassroots justice, local finances andcentrally sponsored development programmes