Public Administration Syllabus in Nagpur University

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As you are looking for syllabus of MA in Public Administration Program of Nagpur University, so here I am providing following syllabus:

Nagpur University MA in Public Administration Program Syllabus

SEMESTER-I
Paper-I: Principles & Practice of Public Administration
Unit-I 1. Meaning, Nature, Scope and Significance of Public Administration; Woodrow Wilson’s Vision of Public Administration; Evolution of the discipline and its present status; Public and Private Administration, New Public Administration. 2. Basic concepts and principles : organization, Hierarchy, Unity of Command, Span of Control, Centralization and Decentralization, Delegation, Line- Staff Agencies, Authority and responsibility, co-ordination, supervision, communication, Control.

Unit-II 3. Accountability and Control: Concepts of Accountability and Control, Legislative, Executive and Judicial Control over Administration; Citizens and Administration; Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations; Civil Society; Citizen Charters; Right to Information; Social Audit and People’s Participation; Machinery for redressal of citizens’ grievances.

Unit-III 4. Approaches to public administration; Public Choice Approach; Good Governance; New Public Management Perspective; State versus Market Debate. 5. Recent Concepts: Administrative Culture; Administrative Ethics; e-Governance; SMART Governance; Corporate Governance; Work Culture in Government; Postmodern Public Administration.

Unit-IV 6. Issues: Corruption in public services; Consumer Protection Law; Information Technology & Public Administration. 7. Disasters Management: Meanings and classification; Disasters Management Cycle, recent trends and strategies.

Paper-II: Indian Administration-I
Unit-I 1. Evolution of Indian Administration: Kautilya’s Arthashastra; Mughal administration; Legacy of British rule in politics and administration; Indianization of public services; revenue administration.

Unit-II 2. Philosophical and Constitutional framework of government: Salient features and value premises; Constitutionalism; Parliamentary democracy federalism, Political culture; Bureaucracy and democracy; Fundamental rights and duties; Directive principles of State policy.

Unit-III 3. Union Government and Administration: Executive, Parliament, Judiciary- structure, functions, work processes; Recent trends; Intergovernmental relations; Cabinet Secretariat; The Prime Minister’s Office; Central Secretariat; Ministries and Departments; Board; Commissions; Attached offices; Field Organizations.

Unit-IV 4. State and District Administration: The Governor, The Chief Minster and Council of Ministers; Chief Secretary; State Secretariat; Directorates; State Judiciary. District Collector and his changing role; Union-state-local relations; Imperatives of development management and law and order administration; District administration and democratic decentralization. 5. Centre-State Relations: Legislative, Administrative and Financial Relations; Role of the Finance Commission.

Paper-III: Management of Human Resources
Unit-I 1. Management of Human Resources: Meaning, Nature, Scope and Significance; Human Resource Planning and Strategy; Job Analysis and Job Design.

Unit-II 2. Public Personnel Administration: Concept, Nature, Scope and Significance; Bureaucracy-Meaning, Concepts, Types, Recent trends and its role in modern society.

Unit-III 3. Public Personnel System in India with Reference to Civil Services: Recruitment, Training and capacity-building, Promotion; Neutrality and Ethics in civil services; Machinery for Negotiation-Joint consultative council-Comparison with Whitley councils; Political Rights and Right to strike, Retirement benefits and other benefits. All India Services, Central Civil Services, Union Public Service Commission; State Services, Local Services.

Unit-IV 4. Employees’ Capacity Building Strategies; Code of Conduct, Discipline and Grievances. 5. Assessing Human Resource Management Effectiveness; Human Resource Audit; Managing change at Work place; Stress Management.