Question : “National Commission to review the working of the Constitution has suggested revolutionary changes in administrative culture. Analyse its major recommendations on Civil Services and Administration.
(2007)
Answer : Out of major commissions or committees set up to review the working of the Constitution or the administrative culture in India, the National Commission to Review Working of Constitution (NCRWC)’s recommendations are more practical and feasible, than all other its counterparts.
The focus of NCRWC’s work on administration in India has been to move forward and alleviate itself from the colonial hangover and status quo mentality. The NCRWC clearly indicated that, the then Indian Civil Services, ....
Question : “All efforts in the field of reforms in public administration by political executive have resulted in no significant output”. Comment.
(2006)
Answer : Reforms are essential for any administration to cope up with the changing environment. Without reforms the administration becomes a closed system which can easily disintegrate. In India there have been made many attempts to reform the administration but due to the rigidity of bureaucracy and their reluctance to change coupled with unwillingness of political executives to reform administration have resulted in a very lesser degree of reforms.
The main responsibility of administration rests with political executive ....
Question : “Efforts made towards administrative reforms so far have been lacking in a congruence between strategy, structure and substance”. Comment.
(2005)
Answer : After independence federal system of government was adopted in India. The partition and the system of federation made if necessary to adopt revolutionary administration reforms. Both central and state governments were feeling for a long period the need for administrative reforms to set up a new political, social and economic order and to satisfy the aspiration of the people. The problem of administrative reforms in India is larger and more complex than in nearly every ....
Question : “In spite of valuable suggestions through Administrative Reforms, still we have not been able to come up to the expectations of the people”. Discuss.
(2004)
Answer : During the first decade after independence, it was found that the inherited administration of the country with its law and order and partition as well as the new charter of responsibilities of social and political development that were entrusted upon the country with the adoption of the ideology of welfare state.
As a consequence, the idea of setting up of a commission to make comprehensive study of the administration gained ground.
The Administrative Reform Commission major suggestions ....
Question : “The problems of administrative improvement in India are larger and more complex than in any other country in the world”. Comment.
(2002)
Answer : Administrative improvement like in most of the countries have met with limited success in India. The problems of administrative improvement in India are larger and ore complex than in nearly every other country in the world. There is the matter of big size and diversity of population. More than 100 crore of people, most of them still illiterate, are participants in the present great Herculean effort for self-improvement. They speak many different languages, they are ....
Question : “Administrative Reforms in India are not necessarily the result of the any Specific Committees or Commission.”
(2001)
Answer : Most of the committees and commissions appointed for recommending administrative reforms in India have had specific objectives that involved the examination of only a few selected aspects of the administrative system. It could be Secretariat reorganization, civil service recruitment, training, pay structure, urban government, rural administration, prevention of corruption and so on.
It was only Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) (1966-70) that had been given the task of scrutinizing almost the whole of the Indian Administrative System. ....
Question : “ Most administrative reforms have a political cost.”
(2000)
Answer : Administrative reforms refer to enhancement is the capacity of an administrative system to achieve its assigned goals. It involves “artificial inducement of administrative transformation against resistance.” Reforming a system implies a modification in its ‘form’, but it does not mean that administrative reform deal with only structural changes in a system. It is much broader in its scope and includes in its ambit improvements in structures, process, behaviour of the administrative system and its component.
The ....
Question : Do you agree with the view that the Indian reform effort has been conservative or orthodox, not breaking radically newer ground, but only modifying the existing structures and processes? Give arguments.
(1999)
Answer : Reform is more than a series of incremental changes or marginal adjustments, though it may result from the cumulation of small changes which periodically creates requirements for comprehensive and systematic efforts. Administrative Reform is a creative destruction; it means that an old order is broken down to pave the way for a new order. It refers to the formal mechanistic and pre-thought process of structured change. But Indian reform effort has been conservative or orthodox, ....
Question : “The success of administrative reforms in a country like India depends upon political as well as administrative will.” Comment.
(1998)
Answer : Administrative reforms become essential when administration is unable to satisfy its personnel, is not able to solve citizen’s grievances, is not able to ascertain the problems around it and is unable to think about proper methods to deal with the activities going on in the organization.Administrative reform is a dependent variable. Indeed, successful reforms need to be preceded or at least accompanied by necessary variation in political as well as administrative will.
The administrative reform thus ....
Question : “The Satish Chandra Committee made a valiant attempt to correct the imbalances unnecessarily introduced in the selection process for civil servants during the late 1970s.” Comment.
(1995)
Answer : Satish Chandra Committee (1989) was appointed to review the effects of the changes that were introduced in the selection process of civil servants during late 1970s on the recommendations of Kothari Committee.
The committee reviewed the existing system and recommended no departure from the practice of holding a common examination in respect of Indian Foreign Service, the Indian Police Service, the Account Groups Services and Revenue and Taxation Services. But one of the recommendation was to ....
