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Current Affairs - 15 March 2019

Current Affairs – 15 March 2019

1. Global Environment Outlook – 2019 Issued by : United Nations Environment Programme

The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is often referred to as UN Environment’s flagship environmental assessment.

The first publication was in 1997 and was originally requested by Member States.

It fulfills the core functions of the organization, which date back to the UN General Assembly resolution that…

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Current Affairs - 14 March 2019

Current Affairs – 14 March 2019

1. Wholesale Price Index (WPI)

Context: The official Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for ‘All Commodities’ for the month of February, 2019 rose by 0.3 percent.

Office of the Economic Adviser (OEA), which is an attached office of the Ministry of Commerce & Industry issues WPI

WPI is issued on monthly basis

What is Wholesale Price Index?

Wholesale Price Index (WPI) measures the average change in the…

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Current Affairs - 11 March 2019

Current Affairs – 11 March 2019

1. General Elections to Lok Sabha

Reference: Schedule for General Elections to Lok Sabha and Legislative Assemblies in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha & Sikkim, 2019 has been announced.

Lok Sabha: General Election (17th) Qualifications:

The Constitution lays down the following qualifications for a person to be chosen a member of the Parliament:

He must be a citizen of India.

He must…

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Contemporary View

In recent times, many scholars have tried to explain the scope of public administration. Scholars like Stephen K Bailey and Ridley are among the notable scholars.

Bailey outlined the core of public administration under four major blocks:

Descriptive

Deals with organization structure, hierarchy, scalar chain, span of control

Normative

Emphasizes that what ought to be done by the practitioner.

As…

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Managerial & Intergral View

Managerial & Intergral View

Managerial View:

This view encompasses only the managerial activity and not the technical, clerical and manual activities.

This constitutes activities of only top persons or managers.

The administration is same for all agencies according to the managerial functions such as planning, control, budgeting etc.

Herbert Simon, Smithsburg, Thompson, Luther Gullick, Cyert and March subscribed to this…

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Subject Matter View

It was pointed out that POSDCoRB view was neither the whole administration nor even the most important part of it.

The real content of the Public Administration should be the main area of concern for which the government comes into existence.

The core functions should be related to the law & order, education, social welfare, agriculture, public health, justice, defence etc.

Different agencies…

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Process (POSDCoRB) View

This view is more or less similar to the managerial view.

This view about the scope of Public Administration was advocated by Luther Gullick.

Gullick explained that administration consists of ‘seven‘ elements.

POSDCoRB; each letter implies one element of administration.

P – PLANNING 

Broad outline of the things that needs to be done and

Methods to accomplish the purpose

O – ORGANISING

Establishm…

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Narrow View

The study of Public Administration primarily includes the activities of the executive organ of the government.

It deals with the action part of the government i.e. visible part of the government.

It deals with the executive branch of national, state & local governments.

Judiciary, legislative and non governmentaly agencies are specifically excluded.

Proponents:

Simon

Smithburg

Thompson

Luther…

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Broad View

Public Administration essentially deals with the machinery and procedures of the government.

Willoughby said that the Public Administration in its broadset sense, deals with the actual conduct of government affairs.

Public Administration is concieved in a comprehensive sense to include all the activities of the government.

It include spheres of the legislative, executive and judicial branch of…

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Meaning of Public Administration MEANING: This is the most important topic to understand the Public Administration. This is the foundation stone to build the entire concept.

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Scope of Public Administration

Scope of Public Administration

The Scope of Public Administration derives its essence from the ‘meaning’ of Public Administration. Since the meaning of Public Administration is not well defined therefore the scope is also not well determined.

The divergent approaches regarding the definition of the Public Administration confronts us with the problem of understanding the scope of study of Public Administration. The differences…