PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: 04 October 2016

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: 04 October 2016

7. District Administration since Independence:

1. Reducing the size (geographical area) of the district will provide relief to the overburdnened and overworked collector. comment
2. District collector is a legacy of the British Raj and has largely remained insulated from the demands of contemporary professionalism. Discuss
3. Would you agree that the strong Rechsstaal version of the rule of law found on the Continent never existed in England because of the its particular history?
4. Ramsay Macdonald: DC is a tortoise on whose back stood the elephant of Indian administration. Discuss
5. “What Fetishism of commodities is to economics, bureaucracy is to politics” – Elucidate in context of 21st century India.