Author: S R Maheshwari
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 664
ISBN/UPC (if available): 812501988X
Description
This edition of Indian Administration is completely revised and updated text. Chapters have been enlarged and rewritten. Fresh chapters have been added on Planning and Audit, making this the most comprehensive treatise on Indian administration today. This is a recommended text for undergraduate students of both political science and public administration.
The sixth edition of Indian Administration brings to the reader a completely revised and updated text. Several chapters have been enlarged and rewritten. Fresh chapters have been added on Planning and Audit, making this the most comprehensive treatise on Indian administration today. Divided into three sections-Central, State and Local-the book discuses in detail the administrative procedures and machinery of the government at all the three levels.
The subjects covered are corruption in the public services, administrative reforms, O & M, problems of the Indian federation, administration of public undertakings, the relationship between the specialists and the generalists, the Planning Commission and the National Development Council, advisory committees, union-state relationship, district administration, working of the Panchayti Raj system in India, etc. It is also a good guide containing as it does a summary of the findings of several reports in the field.
Contents
PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
PREFACES TO EARLIER EDITIONS
INTRODUCTION
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
Framework
The Cabinet Secretariat and the Prime Minister’s Office
Secretariat
Ministry of Home Affairs
Ministry of Personnel
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of External Affairs
Planning Commission and National Development Council
Executive Agencies
Generalists and Specialists
Procedures of Work
Constitutional Authorities
Minister-Secretary Relationship
Advisory Committees
Public Undertakings
Public Services
The All-India Services
Indian Administrative Service
Central Civil Services
In-Service Training for Civil Servants
Reform of the Civil Service
O & M in the Central Government
Centre-State Relations in India
Union-State Relationship: Institutional Framework
Union-State Relation: Consultation through Conferences
North-Eastern Council
Administrative Corruption
Administrative Tribunals
Accountability in Administration
Audit
Administrative Reforms
STATE GOVERNMENT
State Secretariats
Board of Revenue
Regional (Divisional) Administration
District Administration
State Public Service
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Rural and Urban Local Government
Panchayati Raj: Asoka Mehta Committee and After