Issues and Themes in Indian Administration

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction/P.L. Sanjeev Reddy and R.K. Tiwari. Governance: 1. Functions and problems of Indian polity/Shriram Maheshwari. 2. National Integration-role of administration/O.P. Minocha. 3. The administration of law and order/V.N. Rajan. 4. Electoral reforms/Jaytilak Guha Roy. 5. Electoral reforms in the context of recent Supreme Court judgements/Jaytilak Guha Roy. 6. Coalition government -- experience and prospects/O.P. Minocha. 7. National agenda for governance: administrative dimensions/M.C. Gupta and Kamal Nayan Kabra. 8. Reviewing the working of the Indian constitution/Tushar Kanti Saha. 9. Our goals for the twenty-first century: (a) Economic, (b) Social and (c) Administrative/R.N. Thakur. Public administration: 10. Jawaharlal Nehru: his vision on science and technology and public administration/D.D. Malhotra. 11. Public administration and the citizen: how far public administration can be public?/V. Jagannadham. 12. Administrative problems of the next fifteen years/S.N. Sadasivan. 13. Perspectives and challenges of public administration -- role of IIPA/S.P. Verma. 14. New economic policies and the future of teaching, training and research in public administration/R.K. Tiwari. Rural development and weaker sections: 15. Under privileged target groups and the new economic programme - a note on implementation/Sudipto Mundle. 16. Administrative and organisational issues in rural development/Mohit Bhattacharya. 17. Development of the rural poor: intentions and implementation/Kuldeep Mathur. 18. Anti-poverty programmes: centre and states/Kuldeep Mathur. 19. New thrust in democratic decentralization/S.N. Mishra. 20. Women\'s development - problems and prospects/Shanta Kohli Chandra. 21. Panchayati Raj and people\'s aspirations/S.N. Mishra. Social and economic concerns: 22. Administrative problems of an inflationary economy/K.N. Kabra and K.L. Handa. 23. Public distribution of essential commodities in India: an evaluation/Kamta Prasad. 24. Consumerism: concept, concern and consumer care/S.S. Singh. 25. India\'s Population Policy: challenges ahead and strategies therefore/P.K. Chaubey. 26. Disaster management: lessons drawn and strategies for future/Anil Sinha. 27. District planning/Kamta Prasad. 28. New directions in planning: an essay towards the re-appraisal of planning/Kamal Nayan Kabra. 29. A decade of \'reforms\': the unfinished agenda/Kamal Nayan Kabra.