Question : “A well-designed module-based training for Civil Servants is the best way to achieve the goals of good governance.” Analyse.
(2007)
Answer : The good governance is a form of governance where the administration works for the welfare of the people. Here, the citizens take centre stage in the administrative set up. Since, till now, the bureaucracy has been dominating the administration and its attitude has been that of self-aggrandizement and possession of power.
But the emancipation of good governance requires bureaucracy to change its mindset for the betterment of the public. For this to happen a well-designed module ....
Question : “One of the most distinctive characteristics of Indian administrative service is its multipurpose character”.
(2005)
Answer : The Indian Administrative Service, since independence has always been the glamour service for young men in the small towns and village. The IAS acts as the eye, ears and mouth of the government and symbolizes in person in essence of state sovereignty.
This service reflects its multi-purpose character. It is composed of ‘generalist administrators’ who are expected, from time to time, to hold posts involving a wide variety of duties and functions; for example, maintenance of ....
Question : One of the greatest inherent in a federal polity is the responsibility on the part of public servants as between central and state government.” Elaborate and comment.
(2004)
Answer : The responsibility on the part of public servants as between central and state government is a bit complex one.
The union government has pointed out that it has the sole responsibility for all matters relation to public servants especially of All India Services character. According to Article 312 of the constitution confers power on parliament to regulate recruitment and conditions of service of persons appointed to AIS. However, the states are not completely removed from the ....
Question : “In-service training of officers belonging to higher civil services has been perhaps the most conspicuous development in Indian administration”. Discuss with reference to training designed for the Indian Administrative service officers.
(2003)
Answer : The importance and significance of training of civil service personnel cannot be underestimated in todays administration. It is rather rightly felt that unless these personnel are properly trained they cannot deliver the goods and the nation shall be the sufferer. But at the same time it cannot be forgotten that training has its own problems. The main objective of training is to make service personnel more efficient and bring them up to the task, which ....
Question : “All India Services is an institution-is the result of history”. Comment.
(2002)
Answer : In India All India Services occupy pivotal position in our bureaucratic set up. Their creation has historical background.
Since India is a vast country in which there are several subjects which are to be handles at national level, therefore need for all India services has always been felt. Before independence these services were known as Indian Civil Services. Indian civil services was created as early as in 1854.It was however in 1923 that Royal Commission on ....
Question : “All India Services plays a cubical unifying role in the whole administrative system of the country.” Explain.
(2000)
Answer : Presently, India has three All India Services - the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service and Indian Forest Service. Article 312(1) of the Indian constitution says that, if Rajya Sabha has declared by resolution supported by not less than too third of the members present and voting, that it is necessary or expedient, in the national interest to do so, parliament may, by law provide for the creation of one or more of All India ....
Question : “Article 320 states that the Government shall consult the U.P.S.C. on certain specific matters.” Comment.
(1999)
Answer : Articles 315 to 323 deal with the establishment of Public Services Commission for the Union and States. Article 320 deals with the functions of the Public Service Commissions. The duty of the Commissions is to conduct examinations for appointment to the services.
Article 320 (3) specifically provides that the Public Service Commission should be consulted:
Question : “The All-India Services have, naturally, to be remunerate on a higher level than services recruited purely on a local bodies.” Comment.
(1999)
Answer : The remuneration of the All-India Services is more favourable than the state services or local services. This is mainly to attract talent from all over the country. But this imposes heavier financial burden on the states. Not only this, the financial burden leaves correspondingly less resources for development tasks. Apart from this, the All-India Services keep the members of the state services alienated and thus, have a demoralizing effect on the totality of the services. ....
Question : It is argued that the recruitment and training of All-India and Central Services have not kept pace with the changing needs and time. Give suggestions for improving these processes in order to make administrators more effective, committed and honest.
(1998)
Answer : Training and recruitment as an instrument of human resource development in organization and public administration is as old as organization and administration. Training and recruitment can solve a variety of manpower problems through adding to their apperceptive backgrounds specific, identifiable items of additional knowledge skills or understanding. To understand the real import of training in the civil services, particularly in the changing perspective, it is necessary to discover its correct foci, which undeniably: the man, ....
Question : “Central services are more “All-India” in character than are the All-India Services.” Comment.
(1998)
Answer : The Central Services enjoy a crucial place in the Indian administrative system. The personnel of these services occupy important specialized technical and functional positions in various central government organizations. Though governed by their respective cadre-managing ministries and departments of the Government of India, the personnel belonging to these services serve in the central government, union territories and states. Unlike the officers of the All-India Services, the central services officials do not work under the state ....
Question : “The public services in India have been conferred a constitutional status.” Comment.
(1996)
Answer : Public services generally defined to mean, constituted by the government to translate all its plans and programmes into implementable action.
Part XIV of the constitution deals with the services under the Union and States. It lays down that the appropriate legislature may regulate the recruitment, and conditions of services of persons appointed, to public services and posts in connection with the affairs of the union or of any state. A person of the All-India Service holds ....
Question : “Independence of the Public Service Commissions has been ensured under specific provisions of the constitution.” Examine.
(1996)
Answer : The constitution seeks to maintain the independence of the Public Service Commission from the Executive in several ways –
