Development Administration

Paper Code: 
PAD 421
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objective:

  • To make students aware of the need of development policies and challenges.
  • To understand the role of Bureaucracy in Development specially focusing on the Developing Nation like India

 

Course

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

PAD 421

Development Administration in India

CO. 90 Developing a basic intellectual understanding of development, its approaches and sustainable development

CO. 91 Gaining conceptual and theoretical understanding of Development Administration

including the ecological and post-globalization contexts

CO 92.  Gaining familiarity with issues/new perspectives such as Public Private

CO 93. Partnership, Corporate Social Responsibility, Inclusive Development, Sustainable

Development Goals and Human Development Indicators

CO.94 Identify the importance of responsive administration in Development administration

Pedagogical methods such as class room lectures and students-teacher interactions, group discussion, quiz, seminar and assignment etc will be used.

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks.

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

 

 

12.00

Development Administration: Concept, Nature, Scope, Objectives, Features, Significance, Models and Genesis,  Contemporary Approaches, Radical Challenges: Bureaucratic Models and Development Administration

 

12.00

Development Administration and Non-Development Administration Dichotomy. Ecology of Development Administration. Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Influences on Development Administration, Concept of Democratic Decentralization,  Role of Civil Society and People's Participation in Development Administration.

 

12.00

Administrative Development: Concept, Need, Problems and Sources. Relations between Administrative Development and Development Administration.

Structure, Tools and Policies- India's Socio-Economic Profile: Mixed Economy Model, Rationale and Significance

12.00

Development and Its Dimensions. Development and Modernization. Problems and Prospects of Development. Approaches of Development. Role of Administration in the Field of Development. Administrative Organisation for Development at Centre, State and Local levels, Bureaucracy and Development Administration.

 

12.00

Development Reforms - Changing Role of Bureaucracy in the Context of Liberalization and Globalization; An Overview; From Development Administration to New Public Management, Sustainable Development, Environment and Development, Plans, Programmes and Projects, Responsive Administration

 

Essential Readings: 

Books Recommended:

 

  • S.P. Verma and S.K.Sharma (ed.): Development Administration, New Delhi, IIPA.
  • C.N.Bhalerao (ed.): Administration, Politics and Development in India, Bombay, Lai, Pani Publishing House, 1972.
  • R. Braibhanti and J.S.Spengler: Administration and Economic Development in India, Duke Univ. Press.
  • UNO: Development Administration: Current Approaches and Trends in Public Administration for National Development, New York, UNI 1975.
  • S.K.Sharma (ed.), Dynamics of Development (Two volumes), New Delhi: Concept Publishing House.
  • Fred W. Riggs (ed.), Frontiers of Development Administration, purham: N.C. Duke University Press, 1970.
  • Irwing, Swndlow (ed.): Development Administration: Concepts and Problems, Syracause: NY Syracuse University Press, 1963.
  • Joseph, La Palombara (ed.): Bureaucracy and Political Development, Princeton: NJ Princeton University Press, 1963.
  • Preeta Joshi: Vikash Prashashan, Jaipur, RBSA, Swai Man Singh, Highway, Chaura Rasta2ndEd. 1991.
  • Gabriel Almond and G.B. Well: Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach, Oxford & IBH Pub.Co. New Delhi, 1976.
  • Roy Macridis and B. Brown: Comparative Politics, 4th ed. Honwood, Dorsey Press 1972
  • Cherry Oertzel, Maure Goldschmidth and Donald Rotchild, Government and Politics in Kenya, Nairobi 1970

 

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