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UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION 
NET BUREAU 
 
                                NET SYLLABUS 
 
Subject : Public Administration                                Code No. : 14 
  
Unit-I 
Introduction to Public Administration: Public Administration- Meaning, Nature, 
Scope & Significance; Evolution and Present Status of the Discipline; Politics- 
Administration Dichotomy; Globalization and Public Administration; Paradigm shift 
from Government to Governance. 
Principles of Organization: Division of work; Hierarchy; Coordination; Unity of 
Command; Span of Control; Authority, Power and Responsibility; Delegation, 
Centralization and Decentralization; Line, Staff and Auxiliary Agencies; Leadership 
and Supervision; Decision-making and Communication.  
Meaning, Nature and Scope of Personnel Administration: Classification, Recruitment, 
Training, Promotion, Compensation and service conditions, Discipline, Civil Service 
Neutrality, Anonymity and Commitment, Professional Associations and Unionism. 
 
Unit-II 
Administrative Thought: Approaches to the study of Public Administration:  Oriental 
– Kautilya; Classical – F W Taylor, Henri Fayol, Max Weber, Luther Gulick and 
Lyndall Urwick ; Human Relations - Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Follett; Behaviouralism 
– Chester Barnard, Herbert Simon; Motivation – Abraham Maslow, Fredrick Herzberg, 
Douglas  McGregor; Organizational Humanism – Chris Argyris, Rensis Likert; Writers 
on Administration: Dwight Waldo, Ferrel Heady, Robert Golembiewski and Peter 
Drucker; Minnobrook Perspective, New Public Service and Post Modernism. 
 
Unit-III 
Indian Administration: Evolution - Ancient, Mughal and British Periods; 
Constitutional Framework: Parliamentary and Federal Features.  
Union Government: President; Prime Minister & Council of Ministers; Cabinet 
Committees; Central Secretariat; Cabinet Secretariat; and Prime Minister Office. 
Election Commission and Electoral Reforms, Union State Relations.  
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UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION 
NET BUREAU 
 
                                NET SYLLABUS 
 
Subject : Public Administration                                Code No. : 14 
  
Unit-I 
Introduction to Public Administration: Public Administration- Meaning, Nature, 
Scope & Significance; Evolution and Present Status of the Discipline; Politics- 
Administration Dichotomy; Globalization and Public Administration; Paradigm shift 
from Government to Governance. 
Principles of Organization: Division of work; Hierarchy; Coordination; Unity of 
Command; Span of Control; Authority, Power and Responsibility; Delegation, 
Centralization and Decentralization; Line, Staff and Auxiliary Agencies; Leadership 
and Supervision; Decision-making and Communication.  
Meaning, Nature and Scope of Personnel Administration: Classification, Recruitment, 
Training, Promotion, Compensation and service conditions, Discipline, Civil Service 
Neutrality, Anonymity and Commitment, Professional Associations and Unionism. 
 
Unit-II 
Administrative Thought: Approaches to the study of Public Administration:  Oriental 
– Kautilya; Classical – F W Taylor, Henri Fayol, Max Weber, Luther Gulick and 
Lyndall Urwick ; Human Relations - Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Follett; Behaviouralism 
– Chester Barnard, Herbert Simon; Motivation – Abraham Maslow, Fredrick Herzberg, 
Douglas  McGregor; Organizational Humanism – Chris Argyris, Rensis Likert; Writers 
on Administration: Dwight Waldo, Ferrel Heady, Robert Golembiewski and Peter 
Drucker; Minnobrook Perspective, New Public Service and Post Modernism. 
 
Unit-III 
Indian Administration: Evolution - Ancient, Mughal and British Periods; 
Constitutional Framework: Parliamentary and Federal Features.  
Union Government: President; Prime Minister & Council of Ministers; Cabinet 
Committees; Central Secretariat; Cabinet Secretariat; and Prime Minister Office. 
Election Commission and Electoral Reforms, Union State Relations.  
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Accountability: Legislative; Executive; and Judicial.  
Citizen Grievance Redressal Mechanism: Lok Pal; Lok Ayukta; Central Vigilance 
Commission and Regulatory Authorities. Issue Areas:  Politician and Civil Servant 
relations, Generalists and Specialists debate and Combating Corruption.  
Civil Services: Classification – All India Services, Central Services and State Services;  
Recruitment Agencies – Union Public Service Commission, State Public Service 
Commissions and other Commissions and Boards: Capacity Building of Civil Servants 
and Civil Service Reforms. 
Planning: Planning Commission, National Development Council, NITI Aayog, State 
Planning Commissions / Boards and Planning Departments.  
Judiciary: Indian Constitution and Independence of Judiciary: Supreme Court; High 
Courts; Judicial Review and Public Interest Litigation and Judicial Reforms. Police 
Administration and Reforms. E- Governance Initiatives in Indian administration. 
 
Unit-IV 
State & Local Administration: Constitutional Framework of State Administration – 
State Legislature; Governor – Role and Functions;  Chief Minister – Powers and 
Functions; Council of Ministers; Role and Functions of Chief Secretary; State 
Secretariat ; Directorates and Commissionerate;   District Administration – Concept and 
Evolution, District Collector -  Power, Functions and Changing role; Autonomous 
District Councils - Structure, Powers and Functions, District Rural Development 
Agency; Evolution of Local Governance in India. 
Local Governance: 73rd & 74th Constitutional Amendment Acts: State Election 
Commission ;  State Finance Commission;  District Planning Committee; Rural 
Governance -  Gram Sabha, Gram Panchayats, Panchayat Samitis and Zila Parishads,  
Finance in PRIs, Personnel administration at local level; Policies and Programmes of 
Rural Development – MGNAREGA. 
Growth of Urbanization, Urban Governance - Structure, Composition, Functions  of 
Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Metropolitan 
Governance - Sources of Finance; Personnel Administration. Reforms in Urban 
Governance -Solid Waste Management, Smart and AMRUT cities 
 
Unit-V 
Comparative and Development Administration: Comparative Public Administration: 
Concept, Nature, Scope and Significance of Comparative Public Administration; Public 
Administration and its Environment. Approaches and Methods to the study of 
Comparative Administration: Institutional, Behavioural, Structural-Functional, 
Ecological and Systems Approaches.Fred Riggs’s Typology of Societies and Features; 
Problems of Comparative Research; Comparative Studies –Influence of Globalization; 
Salient Features of the administrative systems of UK,  USA, France and Japan. 
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UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION 
NET BUREAU 
 
                                NET SYLLABUS 
 
Subject : Public Administration                                Code No. : 14 
  
Unit-I 
Introduction to Public Administration: Public Administration- Meaning, Nature, 
Scope & Significance; Evolution and Present Status of the Discipline; Politics- 
Administration Dichotomy; Globalization and Public Administration; Paradigm shift 
from Government to Governance. 
Principles of Organization: Division of work; Hierarchy; Coordination; Unity of 
Command; Span of Control; Authority, Power and Responsibility; Delegation, 
Centralization and Decentralization; Line, Staff and Auxiliary Agencies; Leadership 
and Supervision; Decision-making and Communication.  
Meaning, Nature and Scope of Personnel Administration: Classification, Recruitment, 
Training, Promotion, Compensation and service conditions, Discipline, Civil Service 
Neutrality, Anonymity and Commitment, Professional Associations and Unionism. 
 
Unit-II 
Administrative Thought: Approaches to the study of Public Administration:  Oriental 
– Kautilya; Classical – F W Taylor, Henri Fayol, Max Weber, Luther Gulick and 
Lyndall Urwick ; Human Relations - Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Follett; Behaviouralism 
– Chester Barnard, Herbert Simon; Motivation – Abraham Maslow, Fredrick Herzberg, 
Douglas  McGregor; Organizational Humanism – Chris Argyris, Rensis Likert; Writers 
on Administration: Dwight Waldo, Ferrel Heady, Robert Golembiewski and Peter 
Drucker; Minnobrook Perspective, New Public Service and Post Modernism. 
 
Unit-III 
Indian Administration: Evolution - Ancient, Mughal and British Periods; 
Constitutional Framework: Parliamentary and Federal Features.  
Union Government: President; Prime Minister & Council of Ministers; Cabinet 
Committees; Central Secretariat; Cabinet Secretariat; and Prime Minister Office. 
Election Commission and Electoral Reforms, Union State Relations.  
2 
 
Accountability: Legislative; Executive; and Judicial.  
Citizen Grievance Redressal Mechanism: Lok Pal; Lok Ayukta; Central Vigilance 
Commission and Regulatory Authorities. Issue Areas:  Politician and Civil Servant 
relations, Generalists and Specialists debate and Combating Corruption.  
Civil Services: Classification – All India Services, Central Services and State Services;  
Recruitment Agencies – Union Public Service Commission, State Public Service 
Commissions and other Commissions and Boards: Capacity Building of Civil Servants 
and Civil Service Reforms. 
Planning: Planning Commission, National Development Council, NITI Aayog, State 
Planning Commissions / Boards and Planning Departments.  
Judiciary: Indian Constitution and Independence of Judiciary: Supreme Court; High 
Courts; Judicial Review and Public Interest Litigation and Judicial Reforms. Police 
Administration and Reforms. E- Governance Initiatives in Indian administration. 
 
Unit-IV 
State & Local Administration: Constitutional Framework of State Administration – 
State Legislature; Governor – Role and Functions;  Chief Minister – Powers and 
Functions; Council of Ministers; Role and Functions of Chief Secretary; State 
Secretariat ; Directorates and Commissionerate;   District Administration – Concept and 
Evolution, District Collector -  Power, Functions and Changing role; Autonomous 
District Councils - Structure, Powers and Functions, District Rural Development 
Agency; Evolution of Local Governance in India. 
Local Governance: 73rd & 74th Constitutional Amendment Acts: State Election 
Commission ;  State Finance Commission;  District Planning Committee; Rural 
Governance -  Gram Sabha, Gram Panchayats, Panchayat Samitis and Zila Parishads,  
Finance in PRIs, Personnel administration at local level; Policies and Programmes of 
Rural Development – MGNAREGA. 
Growth of Urbanization, Urban Governance - Structure, Composition, Functions  of 
Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Metropolitan 
Governance - Sources of Finance; Personnel Administration. Reforms in Urban 
Governance -Solid Waste Management, Smart and AMRUT cities 
 
Unit-V 
Comparative and Development Administration: Comparative Public Administration: 
Concept, Nature, Scope and Significance of Comparative Public Administration; Public 
Administration and its Environment. Approaches and Methods to the study of 
Comparative Administration: Institutional, Behavioural, Structural-Functional, 
Ecological and Systems Approaches.Fred Riggs’s Typology of Societies and Features; 
Problems of Comparative Research; Comparative Studies –Influence of Globalization; 
Salient Features of the administrative systems of UK,  USA, France and Japan. 
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Development Administration: Development and its Dimensions. Development and 
Modernization; Approaches to Development - Sustainable Development and Anti-
Development; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  
Development Administration: Concept, Nature, Scope, Objectives, Features and 
Significance; Ecology of Development Administration, Contribution of Fred Riggs, 
Dwight Waldo and Edward Widener; Role of Bureaucracy in Development. 
Globalization and Development Administration; Emergence of Non-State actors in 
Development Administration; Public-Private Partnerships; Corporate Social 
Responsibility, Human Development Indicators and Social Audit. 
 
Unit-VI 
Economic and Financial Administration: Economic Policies - Mixed Economy to 
Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (LPG); New Economic Policy (NEP);  
Industrial Policy since Independence; Government in Business - Public Enterprises-
Concept, Growth and Forms of Public Enterprises; Management, Problem of 
Accountability and Autonomy; Disinvestment Policies. 
Financial Administration: Public Finance – Revenue and Expenditure:  Nature, Scope 
and Significance of Financial Administration; Budget – Meaning, Purpose and 
Significance; Budgetary Process – preparation, enactment and execution; Types of 
Budget – PPBS, Performance Budget, Zero-Based Budget and Gender Budget; Fiscal 
Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBMA) and  Sunset legislation. Fiscal 
Federalism – Union-State Financial Relations, Finance Commission. Financial Control-
Legislature and Executive; Parliamentary Committees and Comptroller and Auditor 
General of India. Taxation policies – Principles of Taxation –Progressive and 
Proportional taxation – Reforms in Taxation policies. 
 
Unit-VII 
Social Welfare Administration: Concept of Social Welfare, Social Justice and Social 
Change; Concept of Equity and Inclusiveness in Social Justice; Concept of Affirmative 
action-Reservations; Institutional arrangement for Social Welfare & Social Justice 
Administration; NGOs, Civil Societies and Voluntary Agencies; Policies, Programmes 
and Institutional Framework for the Protection and Welfare of SCs/ STs / OBCs/ 
Women/ Children, Aged, Differently-abled (Divyang) and Minorities Commissions –
Women, SC/ST, Minority- Role and Functions.  
Disaster Management - Nature and Types of Disaster; Institutional Arrangements for 
Disaster Management; Role of State and Non-State actors. 
 
 
Unit-VIII 
Public Policy: Nature, Scope and Importance of Public Policy; Evolution of Public 
Policy and Policy Sciences; Public Policy and Public Administration. Approaches to 
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UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION 
NET BUREAU 
 
                                NET SYLLABUS 
 
Subject : Public Administration                                Code No. : 14 
  
Unit-I 
Introduction to Public Administration: Public Administration- Meaning, Nature, 
Scope & Significance; Evolution and Present Status of the Discipline; Politics- 
Administration Dichotomy; Globalization and Public Administration; Paradigm shift 
from Government to Governance. 
Principles of Organization: Division of work; Hierarchy; Coordination; Unity of 
Command; Span of Control; Authority, Power and Responsibility; Delegation, 
Centralization and Decentralization; Line, Staff and Auxiliary Agencies; Leadership 
and Supervision; Decision-making and Communication.  
Meaning, Nature and Scope of Personnel Administration: Classification, Recruitment, 
Training, Promotion, Compensation and service conditions, Discipline, Civil Service 
Neutrality, Anonymity and Commitment, Professional Associations and Unionism. 
 
Unit-II 
Administrative Thought: Approaches to the study of Public Administration:  Oriental 
– Kautilya; Classical – F W Taylor, Henri Fayol, Max Weber, Luther Gulick and 
Lyndall Urwick ; Human Relations - Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Follett; Behaviouralism 
– Chester Barnard, Herbert Simon; Motivation – Abraham Maslow, Fredrick Herzberg, 
Douglas  McGregor; Organizational Humanism – Chris Argyris, Rensis Likert; Writers 
on Administration: Dwight Waldo, Ferrel Heady, Robert Golembiewski and Peter 
Drucker; Minnobrook Perspective, New Public Service and Post Modernism. 
 
Unit-III 
Indian Administration: Evolution - Ancient, Mughal and British Periods; 
Constitutional Framework: Parliamentary and Federal Features.  
Union Government: President; Prime Minister & Council of Ministers; Cabinet 
Committees; Central Secretariat; Cabinet Secretariat; and Prime Minister Office. 
Election Commission and Electoral Reforms, Union State Relations.  
2 
 
Accountability: Legislative; Executive; and Judicial.  
Citizen Grievance Redressal Mechanism: Lok Pal; Lok Ayukta; Central Vigilance 
Commission and Regulatory Authorities. Issue Areas:  Politician and Civil Servant 
relations, Generalists and Specialists debate and Combating Corruption.  
Civil Services: Classification – All India Services, Central Services and State Services;  
Recruitment Agencies – Union Public Service Commission, State Public Service 
Commissions and other Commissions and Boards: Capacity Building of Civil Servants 
and Civil Service Reforms. 
Planning: Planning Commission, National Development Council, NITI Aayog, State 
Planning Commissions / Boards and Planning Departments.  
Judiciary: Indian Constitution and Independence of Judiciary: Supreme Court; High 
Courts; Judicial Review and Public Interest Litigation and Judicial Reforms. Police 
Administration and Reforms. E- Governance Initiatives in Indian administration. 
 
Unit-IV 
State & Local Administration: Constitutional Framework of State Administration – 
State Legislature; Governor – Role and Functions;  Chief Minister – Powers and 
Functions; Council of Ministers; Role and Functions of Chief Secretary; State 
Secretariat ; Directorates and Commissionerate;   District Administration – Concept and 
Evolution, District Collector -  Power, Functions and Changing role; Autonomous 
District Councils - Structure, Powers and Functions, District Rural Development 
Agency; Evolution of Local Governance in India. 
Local Governance: 73rd & 74th Constitutional Amendment Acts: State Election 
Commission ;  State Finance Commission;  District Planning Committee; Rural 
Governance -  Gram Sabha, Gram Panchayats, Panchayat Samitis and Zila Parishads,  
Finance in PRIs, Personnel administration at local level; Policies and Programmes of 
Rural Development – MGNAREGA. 
Growth of Urbanization, Urban Governance - Structure, Composition, Functions  of 
Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Metropolitan 
Governance - Sources of Finance; Personnel Administration. Reforms in Urban 
Governance -Solid Waste Management, Smart and AMRUT cities 
 
Unit-V 
Comparative and Development Administration: Comparative Public Administration: 
Concept, Nature, Scope and Significance of Comparative Public Administration; Public 
Administration and its Environment. Approaches and Methods to the study of 
Comparative Administration: Institutional, Behavioural, Structural-Functional, 
Ecological and Systems Approaches.Fred Riggs’s Typology of Societies and Features; 
Problems of Comparative Research; Comparative Studies –Influence of Globalization; 
Salient Features of the administrative systems of UK,  USA, France and Japan. 
3 
 
Development Administration: Development and its Dimensions. Development and 
Modernization; Approaches to Development - Sustainable Development and Anti-
Development; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  
Development Administration: Concept, Nature, Scope, Objectives, Features and 
Significance; Ecology of Development Administration, Contribution of Fred Riggs, 
Dwight Waldo and Edward Widener; Role of Bureaucracy in Development. 
Globalization and Development Administration; Emergence of Non-State actors in 
Development Administration; Public-Private Partnerships; Corporate Social 
Responsibility, Human Development Indicators and Social Audit. 
 
Unit-VI 
Economic and Financial Administration: Economic Policies - Mixed Economy to 
Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (LPG); New Economic Policy (NEP);  
Industrial Policy since Independence; Government in Business - Public Enterprises-
Concept, Growth and Forms of Public Enterprises; Management, Problem of 
Accountability and Autonomy; Disinvestment Policies. 
Financial Administration: Public Finance – Revenue and Expenditure:  Nature, Scope 
and Significance of Financial Administration; Budget – Meaning, Purpose and 
Significance; Budgetary Process – preparation, enactment and execution; Types of 
Budget – PPBS, Performance Budget, Zero-Based Budget and Gender Budget; Fiscal 
Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBMA) and  Sunset legislation. Fiscal 
Federalism – Union-State Financial Relations, Finance Commission. Financial Control-
Legislature and Executive; Parliamentary Committees and Comptroller and Auditor 
General of India. Taxation policies – Principles of Taxation –Progressive and 
Proportional taxation – Reforms in Taxation policies. 
 
Unit-VII 
Social Welfare Administration: Concept of Social Welfare, Social Justice and Social 
Change; Concept of Equity and Inclusiveness in Social Justice; Concept of Affirmative 
action-Reservations; Institutional arrangement for Social Welfare & Social Justice 
Administration; NGOs, Civil Societies and Voluntary Agencies; Policies, Programmes 
and Institutional Framework for the Protection and Welfare of SCs/ STs / OBCs/ 
Women/ Children, Aged, Differently-abled (Divyang) and Minorities Commissions –
Women, SC/ST, Minority- Role and Functions.  
Disaster Management - Nature and Types of Disaster; Institutional Arrangements for 
Disaster Management; Role of State and Non-State actors. 
 
 
Unit-VIII 
Public Policy: Nature, Scope and Importance of Public Policy; Evolution of Public 
Policy and Policy Sciences; Public Policy and Public Administration. Approaches to 
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Public Policy – Process Approach, Logical Positivism, Phenomenological Approach, 
Participatory and Normative Approaches.  
Theories and Models of Policy Making – Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, 
Yehezkel Dror . 
Institutions of Policy Making - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. Types of Policy 
Analysis - Empirical, Normative, Retrospective and Prospective, Prescriptive and 
Descriptive. Policy Implementation, Outcomes and Evaluation.  
Constraints on Public Policy – Socio-economic, Political, Institutional and Cultural. 
Role of Media, Public Opinion, Civil Society and Pressure Groups on Policy Making.  
 
Unit-IX 
Governance and Good Governance: Ancient Discourse – Kautilya, Plato and 
Aristotle on Good Governance; Elements and Forms of Good Governance; Theories 
and Concepts of Governance – World Bank and UNDP; State, Market and Civil 
Society, Public Choice Theory, New Public Management, Public Value Theory, 
Governance as Theory, Governance and Public Governance.  
Networking and Collaborative Governance, Business Process Re-engineering, ICT and 
Governance – e-Government and e-Governance, e-Readiness and Digital Divide. 
Accountability, Openness and Transparency; Gender and Governance.  
Citizen and Governance:  Civil Society – Role and Limitations, Citizen Participation, 
Right to Information – RTI Act and Administrative Reforms, National Information 
Commission, Citizen Charter – Concept, Objectives and Significance.  
Ethics and Public Accountability in Governance: Rule of Law and Administrative Law, 
Delegated Legislation and Administrative Adjudication. Ethical Foundations of 
Governance: Constitutional Values, Family, Society and Education.  
 
Unit-X 
Research Methodology: Social Science Research- Meaning and Significance; 
Distinction between Methodology and Method; Facts and Values in Research; Role of 
Research in Theory-Building;     Scientific Method; Objectivity in Social Research; 
Types of Research; Identification of Research Problem; Hypotheses and Null-
Hypotheses; Validation of Hypothesis;     Research Design; Methods of Data 
Collection- Primary and Secondary sources- ( Observation; Questionnaire and 
Interview, Use of Library and Internet);Sampling and Sampling Techniques; Scales of 
Measurement; Analysis of Data and Use of Computers in Social Science Research-
SPSS; Citation patterns and Ethics of Research ; Bibliography; Report Writing.