Indian Public Administration (Institutions and Issues) For 2020-2021 by Arora & Goyal

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About Indian Public Administration (Institutions and Issues) by Arora & Goyal

• Indian Public Administration (Institutions and Issues) is the third and thoroughly revised edition of the well-known text on Indian Public Administration.
• It is a unique treatise on the environment, structure, functioning, behaviour, impact and problems of the Indian Administrative System.
• The book has been organized into nine parts: Part one discusses the evolution of Indian administration Kautilya, Mughal and the British influences.
• Part two explains the Indian constitutional setting, including salient features, value premises, constitutionalism, parliamentary democracy, the Union judiciary and Union-State relations.
• Part three highlights the responsibilities and functioning of the President, the Prime Minister, the PM Office, Council of Ministers, the Cabinet, Cabinet Secretariat, Central Secretariat and Ministries and Departments.
• Part four is devoted to state administration, including the Governor, Chief Minister, Council of Ministers, Chief Secretary and the State Secretariat.
• In Part five, Area Administration, the role of Collector, urban local bodies and panchayati raj have been discussed.
• Part six elaborates the structure of civil services, public service commissions of the union and states and civil service training.
• Aspects of development administration have been examined in Part seven which covers the planning system and rural development programmes.
• Part eight, focusing on the accountability system, covers the control over finance through the Parliament and the CAG.
• Part nine is analyzed the issues concerning Generalists Vs Specialists, administrative reforms, integrity in civil services, the RTI, PMES and the governance aspects of the Twelfth Plan.

Hopefully, this volume will meet the needs of the students preparing for the Indian Civil Services and State Services Examinations. It will also prove as a valuable textbook for postgraduate students, M.Phil. and B.A. Honours (Public Administration and Political Science) and civil servants of today and tomorrow.

About Authors of Indian Public Administration (Institutions and Issues)

Prof. Ramesh K Arora, MPA, M Phil., PhD (Kansas, USA) was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Kansas, Lawrence and a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York, USA.

He was Professor and Head, Department of Public Administration and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Rajasthan.

Presently, he is working as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration, Jaipur. A Pi Sigma Alpha and Paul Appleby Awardee, Dr. Arora has lectured at several institutions in India and abroad including the USA, the UK, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

He is the author/editor of numerous books including the best selling book: Indian Public Administration. He edits Administrative Change, an international journal and is Honorary Chairman, Management Development Academy, Jaipur. Prof. Arora can be reached at rkajaipur@rediffmail.com

Dr. Rajni Goyal is Professor of Political Science, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. She obtained her Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Rajasthan University.

She has been teaching for well over three and a half decades.

Dr Rajni is the author of several books, main amongst them are State Civil Service Training in India, Major Constitutions, Revenue and General Administration in Rajasthan and The Gram Sabha and Gram Sevak in Rajasthan.

She has authored articles in national as well as international journals of repute.

Contents

• Evolutionary Perspective
• Constitutional Setting
• The Union Executive
• State Administration
• Area Administration
• Civil Service System
• Development Administration
• The Accountability System
• Issue Areas

PRINTED BOOK DETAILS:
ISBN: 978-81-224-3446-0
Publication Year: 2012
Edition: 3rd
Reprint: 2020
Pages: 896
Price: Rs. 499.00
Binding : Paperback

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