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Public Administration UPSC PYQ 2018

16 questions from the UPSC 2018 examination. Showing a preview of 3 below — generate a full practice test to solve the rest.

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1Medium50 marks
Q6 (Paper 2).
(a) "Competency mapping is important for effective allocation of responsibilities to administrators." Do you think that a generalist administrator can handle all issues as effectively as a specialist? Discuss.
(b) "The recommendations of various commissions on administrative reforms have not made a radical departure from the Paul Appleby Report." Do you agree? Give reasons.
(c) "Performance management requires identification of indicators and measures to ensure that goals are achieved efficiently." Discuss.
2Medium50 marks
Q5 (Paper 2). Answer the following:
(a) "The 'enablers' and 'facilitators' are yet to replace the 'inspectors' and 'controllers' in the civil service in India." Do you agree? Justify.
(b) "Financial inclusion needs legal backing but it also requires increasing awareness for it to become a reality." Discuss.
(c) "Gender budgeting requires rethinking beyond allocations to become a powerful tool of gender mainstreaming." Discuss.
(d) "Social audit has lent a critical edge to the implementation of programmes such as MGNREGA." Comment.
(e) "The AFSPA debate reveals that the Indian paramilitary forces are caught between the imperatives of national security and protection of human rights." Discuss.
3Medium50 marks
Q1 (Paper 1). Write short answers in about 150 words each (10x5=50 marks):
(a) "The scope of the discipline of Public Administration is determined by what an administrative system does." Does it mean that the scope of this discipline is boundaryless? Explain.
(b) "The concepts of rationality and efficiency are intertwined in the bureaucratic analysis of Max Weber." Comment.
(c) "New Public Service approach is an improvement over its predecessor, New Public Management." Discuss.
(d) "A leader is a people's developer." (Napoleon). Which aspects of subordinates' development can be positively influenced by a leader? Discuss.
(e) "Herbert Simon's book Administrative Behavior presents a synthesis of the classical and behavioural approaches to the study of Public Administration." Explain.

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