Paper 1:
1. Public Administration is constantly being reinvented because it is contextual. Elaborate.
2. ”Media, the fourth estate is in chains.” Examine the statement in the context of governmental accountability.
3. ”Maximum social gain” in public policy making is an attractive goal which is rarely found in practice. Discuss.
4. Is William Niskanen’s ”Budget maximising model” relevant today? Argue.
5. Discuss the major areas of change in the Tax Reforms of the post-liberalisation era. How do you justify the importance of direct tax reform in this context?
Paper 2:
1. In the text of Arthashastra, ”the state is neither a police state, nor merely a tax gathering state.”-Comment.
2. Emerging developmental aspirations of the society necessitate the constitutional amendment to change the present safeguard available to the civil servants. Evaluate the pros and cons of such amendment?
3. The Police-Public interface is punctuated with distrust and fear. Suggest how the police can reform its image in the eyes of the public.
4. The concept of new localism arrangement may defeat the very purpose of local self governance? Do you agree? Justify.
5. ‘Sevottam Scheme’ had great potential to reform service delivery, but opportunity is frittered away. Comment.