Question : If information is power, nothing can perhaps empower a citizen more than the secret and developmental informations need by various public authorities.” Analyse the merits and demerits of RTI Act, 2005 in the light of this statement.
(2007)
Answer : The twenty-first century is driven, primarily, by information. The flow of information from public authorities to citizens determine the process of development in any country. The administrators of India rightly recognized its importance and gave Statutory Protection to flow of information through Right To Information Act, 2005. Like any their landmark development, the enactment of Right to Information Act, 2005 brought many unprecedented benefits to the Indian politico – social administrative set up. Some significant ....
Question : “The role played by National Human Rights Commission in maintaining and preserving dignity of India’s citizens has been satisfactory and up to the expectations”. Elucidate.
(2006)
Answer : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) came into being by an statute of parliament in 1993 known as Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993. Thus, it is a statutory body. The members of NHRC are appointed by a committee consisting of the PM (chairman), speaker of Lok Sabha, Home Minister, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha.
Apart from that the NHRC has a chairperson who must have been ....
Question : “The National Human Right Commission is unable to play its role effectively due to various hindrances”. Comment.
(2004)
Answer : The basic premises of India’s freedom struggle were for human rights particularly of valuing and upholding Indian identity in term of a people wanting essential human rights for all.
The NHRC enjoys the powers of civil court while inquiring into the complaints under the Act. It enjoys investigative power and can utilize services of any governmental investigative agency. After completion of the inquiry, the commission may take any of the following steps. It may: Recommend prosecution ....
Question : “Values, more than techniques are the eventual determinant of the actions of the administrators.
(2004)
Answer : To understand values in public services which can be equated with bureaucratic values, are must begin by a consideration of “bureaucratic culture” as values are rooted in culture. This, in tern necessitates a close examination of societal political, and administration cultures because of linkage between them and their contribution of value clusters.
Values basically represent behaviour, ethos among administrators.
There is need to develop both human and modern technology to improve efficiency. However, priority should be given ....
Question : “Culturally sanctioned values and symbols have acted as important influencing catalyst in administration”. Elaborate.
(2002)
Answer : Culture basically represents a pattern of values and behaviour where response pattern persists over a period of time and gets institutionalized. Administrative culture is conglomeration of values, beliefs and dispositions and its central concern in the perception of the administrative systems by the public at large.
One of the striking social characteristics of Indian society is domination of inegalitarian values. Dumount after his studies characterized the Indian model as hierarchical. The hierarchico-inegalitarian social ethic has been ....
Question : “Only a systematic-ecological approach to study of corruption in India can help us understand its causes and dimensions.” Comment.
(1999)
Answer : The problem of corruption is a complex one, having roots and ramification in society as a whole, in its widest connotation, corruption includes improper or selfish exercise of power and influence attached to a public office, or to the special position occupied in public life. In this sense, in India the problem has to be viewed in relation to the entire system of moral values and socio-economic structure of society.
In India, the economic reasons are ....
Question : “Corruption is more of an environmental than an administrative problem.” Comment.
(1998)
Answer : Corruption is in a sense a product of the way of life of an acquisitive society, where money talks, where that works is justified, and where people are judged by what they have rather than what they are actually. The Indian society is passing through transition where modern mixes with the old. Here the ties of family, caste, tribe, community, religion, language and region are still strong. Public servants, therefore, are unable to sacrifice their ....
