1. 'The Rising Pyramid of Bureaucrats is a serious challenge to democracy.' Evaluate the relevance of Weberian model of Bureaucracy in the context of developing societies.
'Budget is the heart of management.' Comment.
2. 'The role of District Collector has gone under a metamorphosis from baton of brutality to agent of social change.' Delineate the role of District Collector in the light of this statement.
'Training is a paid holiday.' In the light of this statement explain the rationale of
training.
3. 'The Public Policies in general suffer from implementation lag'. Analyse.
4. Evaluate the Institutional Arrangements for Policy formulation.
5. Explain the meaning and methods of monitoring and evaluation of Public Policy.
3. 'The Reservation Policy has failed to produce desired impact in terms of social justice.' Comment.
4. Critically examine the recent innovations in the field of Education in India.
5. Social welfare and social justice are complimentary to each other. Elaborate.
3. Assess the impact of Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization on Public Enterprises in India.
4. 'Accountability and Autonomy of Public Enterprises are incompatible.' Examine the statement and suggest suitable solutions.
5. Disinvestment policy is both a boon and a bane for Indian Economy. Comment.
3. The implementation of 74th Constitutional Amendment Act has been characterised by hesitant and halting approach to devolution. Comment.
4. The Gram Sabha is yet to attain the role and status as envisaged under the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act. Comment.
5. "State Finance Commissions have failed to deliver the goods." In the light of this statement explain their performance.
3. Critically examine the Target Group Approach to Rural Development.
4. Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) has changed the urban scene. Do you agree
5. 'Urban Development should not be at the cost of environmental protection.' Comment.
6. Why the gap between public and private administration is narrowing down
7. "Coordination is the first principle of organisation." (Mooney and Reiley) Comment.
8.Explain the concept of constructive conflict propounded by M.P. Follet.
9. Explain the Riggsian concept of overlapping.
10. Describe the stratified sampling method.
11. Differentiate between Department and Directorate.
12. 'The credibility of State Public Service Commissions has declined.' Comment.
13.
Discuss the rationale of establishing three tier system of Federation in India.
14. What is in the New Economic Policy

Read the passage below, and answer the questions that follow based on your understanding of the passage:

Performance of civil servants is difficult to measure. This is for a number of reasons, all related to the measurement of outputs and outcomes. In the private sector, the value of services provided by a company is determined by the price at which they are sold in the market. This enables measures of productivity, such as output per worker, to be calculated rather easily. Since public services are not usually traded in a market, outputs of civil servants cannot be quantified using prices. A further complication is the distinction between outputs and outcomes. The performance of the civil service is ideally measured in terms of outcomes, since these are the primary concern of citizens. But it is often difficult to identify to what extent these are the result of the outputs produced by civil servants as compared with other, external, factors. Another complicating factor is the time lag that often exists between improvements in the quantity and quality of outputs and the outcomes they achieve. As a result of these difficulties, measurement of the productivity of civil servants has historically tended to ignore outputs and outcomes. Instead, the focus has been on the magnitude of inputs used, and increases in expenditure are regarded as equivalent to an identical increase in output. But, as the experience of several OECD member countries show, such an assumption is no longer tenable and a great deal of work has now been done in these countries on finding solutions to these problems and establish performance management systems linked to measurement of outputs and outcomes.

15. What are the difficulties in measuring the performance of Civil servants as compared to Private sector

16. What do you mean by 'outputs' and 'outcomes'

17. What is the difficulty in measuring the performance of the civil servants in terms of outcomes

18. Explain the concept of 'time lag'.

19. What steps OECD countries have taken with regard to measurement of performance of civil servants