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Answer is Urwick

Answer is Cameralism

1. Formal & informal training 

2. Pre-service & post Beginning of service training 

3. Short term & long term training 

4. Departmental & central institutes training 

5. Skill training & back ground training

Corporate Social Responsibility

1. permanent

2. Public Administration

3. executive

4. NITI Aayog

5. UPSC

6. USA

7. Chandragupta Maurya

8. Sarpanch

conducting exams for the recruitment of group A and B officers of central government. 

1. conducting interviews for Direct Recruitment. 

2. Advising central government on issues related to promotion and transition 

3. Advising government on initiation of disciplinary actions against earring government employees. 

4. On the direction of the president advising the government only

1. According to article 315 of the constitution, there should be a separate public service commission for the center and a state. 

2. Two or three states can have a joint public service commission also 

3. The president appoints a chairman and the members of the central and the joint service commission.

This statement is False.

• According to Gullick and Urwick, public administration should focus on aspects related to the executive branch of government.
• It is explained by the acronym POSDCORB. Thus, the first step in administration is Planning, followed by Organisation and then Staffing.

1. Direct Recruitment (External Recruitment) 

2. Internal Recruitment (Recruitment by motion)

Correct Answer is: c) Governor

1. According to Woodrow Wilson “ The holistic & orderly implementation of law is public Administration 

2. According to pifnar “the consolidation of community initiatives in implementing public policies is public administration 

3. According to Luther Gulick “Public administration is related to the executive of the government 

• P-Planning 
• O-Organization 
• S- Staffing 
• D-Direction 
• Co-Coordination 
• R-Reporting 
• B-Budgeting

Correct Answer is: a) 315

1. According to the Article 77 (3) of constitution, the president of India has the powers to frame rules 

2. Each cabinet Minister will have an independent ministry 

3. If their portfolio is bigger, state minister & deputy minister would be there to assist them 

4. One portfolio may have more than one department example: tough homes, Agriculture, Defense 

5. The important portfolio are Department principle, wing, Division Branch, section.

This statement is False.

Public Administration as an academic discipline originated in the USA and Woodrow Wilson was the first person to emphasize the need to study it.

However, Kautilya’s ‘Arthashastra’ was a text on administration and political economy in ancient India.

a) Central Armed Reserve

At the local level, the administration is either urban or rural. Urban administration includes political and administrative dimensions. For cities, there are Municipal Corporations (with a population of 3 lakhs and more) headed by the Mayor, Municipal Councils (Nagar Palika), City Councils (Nagar Panchayats), and Cantonment Boards. There is also a Municipal Commissioner who performs administrative functions and a Collector who looks after revenue, law, and order, land records, etc.

Rural administration includes three tiers i.e., Zilla Parishad, Panchayat Samiti, and Gram Panchayat. Developmental administration includes Chief Executive Officer, Block Development Officer, and Gram Sevak. There is also the Collector and Tehsildar.

1. An efficient administration is based on efficient recruitment process. 

2. If an efficient honest and eligible person is selected to civil service, the person delivers good public service 

3. If the recruitment process is more scientific and efficient 

4. It has 2 types. 

• Direct recruitment: Recruiting eligible candidates through competitive examinations. 

• Internal recruitment: Selecting the eligible in-service personnel to higher position is called as internal recruitment.

d) Skill Training

1. The primary role of the state governments is to ensure law & order in state. 

2. In order to fulfill this duty, state government has a police force that will have adequate training & functions 

3. The police department comes under the home ministry 

4. Home ministry is headed by a secretary who would be from IAS 

5. The secretary aids the home ministry in this day to day administration

c) Public administration

1. The life cycle of human being depends on public administration 

2. It is heart of a state 

3. There is no state without public administration 

4. Public administration is the pillar of the government 

5. It serves Various functions in interest of public

6. Implementation of law & policies 

7. Necessary to protect social security 

8. Support legislature & executive

Public Policy refers to the new approach to understanding aspects of government activities for public welfare ‘ that is beyond simple administrative activities for e.g., Ayushman Bharat which aims to provide universal access to good quality health care in India. Public policy can be understood in three steps.

Policy Choice: Elected representatives, bureaucrats, and others decide the on which concerns of citizens to deal with, various options available about how to deal with it, and the formulation of a programme are then decided for e.g., anti-malaria programme (its objectives and implementation).

Policy Output: Actual implementation of the policy takes place and policy output is determined

Policy Impact (evaluation stage): This involves assessment of the objectives to determine policy impact and any improvements if required.

Private administration is concerned with achieving the goals of private business organizations. The similarities between private and public administration are that both aim to serve the people, have similar types of hierarchy and management systems, and rely on common skills, techniques, and procedures.

The differences between private and public administration relate to aspects like scope, motive, responsibility, weakness, and financial control. Private administration is business-like with a narrower scope, wealth creation as the motive, responsibility to the owners, fewer chances of red-tapism, and internal financial control.

Public administration is bureaucratic with a very wide scope and motive as public service, responsibility to the ministers, intrinsic  weakness of red - tapism, and external financial controls.

The main activities of the Ministry of Home, GOI include the maintenance of internal security and domestic policy. The departments included under this Ministry are-

Intelligence Bureau (IB)

Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

Border Security Force (BSF)

Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)

Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)

National Security Guards (NSG)

National Investigation Agency (NIA)

Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).

1. Public administration is pillar of the government 

2. As the state is evolving from protective to welfare state and from welfare state to functioning state 

3. As a result the scope of public administration is enlarging 

4. The holistic development of human society and the survival of civic society depend on effective public administration

1. Woodrow Wilson

2. Alexander Hamilton

3. President of India

4. Article 315

5. The chief secretary