Question : “People’s participation is crucial to development administration.” Comment.
(2007)
Answer : The Development Administration (DA) aims upon the development of all sections of society in general and of weaker sections in particular. The People’s Participation (PP) plays an important role in this regard.
The essence of development administration is to bring about change through integrated, organized and properly directed governmental action. In the recent past the governments in most of the developing nations have shifted their focus on development by means of planned change and people’s participation. ....
Question : Do you agree with the view that development administration in recent years lost its impetus without making any significant intellectual breakthrough? Discuss.
(2006)
Answer : The development administration has the responsibility of changing a developing society in to the developed one. It is given the responsibility of enhancing the living standard of poor. The significance of development administration is so high that has become a separate discipline and a separate field of enquiry. For any discipline two things are important, firstly it should have a sound base in theory and intellectual innovation and second day it should have well defined ....
Question : “Development administration is starved for theories which will guide the pooling of empirical knowledge, orient new research, and recommend administrative policy”. Explain.
(2005)
Answer : Development administration calls for some revolutionary changes in the attitudes, behaviour, orientation and outlook of public services at all levels of administration. Development administration is starved of theories, which will guide the pooling of empirical knowledge, orient new research and recommend administrative policy.
The attitude of development administration is positive rather than negative, persuasive rather than restrictive or authoritative. It encourages innovation and changes which is needed to accomplish development tasks. The characteristics of development administration ....
Question : Describe the changing profile of Development Administration and identify its effort towards peoples empowerment?
(2004)
Answer : Development administration, as has been made more many times, is not merely interested in economic growth. Rather its objective is economic growth with justice. It works for the purpose of a social orders based on the principles of equity, justice, and freedom, offering equal opportunities to all. The fact is that all major decisions regarding production, distribution, consumption and investment and all other important socio-economic relationships must be made by the agencies committed to social ....
Question : “Development administrator has two important aspects ‘two administration of development’ and ‘the development of administration’.
(2003)
Answer : Administration of Development: Development is integral to the anus and activities of the govt. especially in the developing countries because of paucity of resources, human and material in their countries, the need of making optimum utilization of available means and augmenting new means assures a great importance. Development administration thus becomes a means through which the government brings quantitative and qualitative and changes in an economy.
It is an effort at the synchronisation of changes in ....
Question : “Development administration is concerned with maximizing innovation for development”. Discuss.
(2002)
Answer : Development is grounded in normative concepts — that development is desirable, that development can be planned, directed or controlled in some way by administrative systems, that improved in quality and quantity of societal products is desirable; that obstacles to development can be overcome and that macro problems handicapping societal progress can be solved.
Development Administration focuses on replacing/improvement the existing governing structures and norms with the ones that suit the changing political and social environment.In other ....
Question : “The doctrine of political neutrality and anonymity is no more relevant to modern civil service”. Comment.
(2002)
Answer : The neutrality role of civil services is in consonance with its instrumentality role. It is thus clear that if civil services have to perform, in the right spirit of their structural functional framework, they have to be “neutral” in their approach outlook and activities. No way should their political values affect their conduct and behaviour. Civil servant are the objective, dispassionate and non partisan band of professional who should do a job entrusted to them ....
Question : “It is not weak but strong bureaucracy that creates concern in democracy.” Comment.
(1999)
Answer : A modern democracy cannot exist without a relatively powerful and independent bureaucracy. For democratic procedures to work properly, the modern state must have at its disposal an organization that will not only allocate the resources but will do so by non-partisan criteria. Failing this, the political democratic process would necessarily be based on an exchange of material benefits for political support. If this happens, it will lead to all sorts of political corruption which in ....
Question : What are the objectives of Development Administration? Also examine the demands? D.A. places on the structures and practice for administration.
(1998)
Answer : The essence of development administration is to bring about change through integrated, organized and properly directed governmental action. In the recent past the governments in most of the developing nations have shifted their focus on development by means of planned change and people’s participation. Furthermore, the growing welfare functions of the government have brought into limelight the limitations of the traditional theory of administration.
Following are the objectives of Development Administration:
Question : Development Administration is basically an “ action-oriented, goal-oriented administrative system”. Comment.
(1997)
Answer : Development is integral to aims and activities of the government especially in the developing countries. Because of paucity of resources, human and material in their countries, the need for making optimum utilization of available means and augmenting new means assumes a great importance.
The state plays a leading role in bringing about development through its administrative system. In order to discharge this role it requires a distinct type of support by administration which involves, special understanding ....
Question : “Committed bureaucracy is unsuitable in a parliamentary democracy”. Comment.
(1996)
Answer : Committed bureaucracy is one which is committed to the programmes of the party in power. Public servants are allowed to become members of political parties and participate in their meeting. Political parties interfere in appointments, transfers and promotion of public employees. In other words, public services are not free from ‘spoils system’. The public orientation towards bureaucracy is that of a corrupt civil service which toes the line or party in power. The top official ....
Question : How far is it true to state that the bureaucratic state began to displace the administrative stage, when the predominant function of the government changed from regulation to operation of business?
(1996)
Answer : The bureaucratic state began to displace the administrative stage, when the predominant function of government changed from regulation to operation of business. The new approaches to public institution underline the importance of “public policy” making implementation and management within the overarching framework of liberal democracy. It is being suggested that the complexities involved in policy making and implementation call for a “rethinking” about human motivation and efficiency and effectiveness in the public sector.
The question has ....
Question : Outline the features of development administration and explain the reason for its marginal performan
(1995)
Answer : Following are the features of development administration:
