Perspectives of Public Administration

Contents: Preface. 1. State public services. 2. State secretariats. 3. Regional administration. 4. District administration in India: perspectives on change. 5. Democratic decentralisation and Panchayati Raj in India: perspectives and practices. 6. Panchayati Raj and the Asoka Mehta Committee. 7. The dynamics of rural development. 8. Procedures of work. 9. Planning Commission and National Development Council. 10. Field administration. 11. New directions in administrative reforms in India. 12. Constitutional dynamics and administrative development. 13. Policy-making in India. 14. Other tools of administrative improvement. 15. Restructuring administrative system for national integration and development. 16. Administrative reforms. Index.

    "To-day administration has to be goal-oriented, change-oriented, innovative responsive, motivational and integrated. Public administration is decision making, planning the work, formulating objectives, working with the legislature and citizen organisations, directing and supervising employees, providing leadership, determining work methods, exercising controls.

    Aims of the book is therefore to examine and understand the various perspectives of the public administration. And to see how these perspectives realise the goals and purposes of the government." (jacket)