Public administration includes primarily the organization, personnel practices and procedures essential to the effective performance of civilian functions entrusted to the executive branch of government. It is the composite of all the laws, regulations, practices, relationships, codes and customs that prevail at any time in any jurisdiction for the fulfilment or execution of public policy. Public administration is far wider in scope and all pervasive in modern life. In democracies, particularly in India, the system, theories and organization of Public Administration require constant adjustment and readjustment in a changing situation. Public administration is essentially an instrument that has to step aside to allow the impulses of growth of the people to blossom forth to build self-reliant communities. The present book has been divided into five parts covering every possible aspect related to public administration. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this book emphasizes a value based approach to the study and practice of public administration. The language of the book has been kept deliberately simple so as to make it easily accessible to the average readers. Latest works, articles, papers and reports published by both private and government departments have been referred to which make the book highly informative and authentic. Students of Public Administration both at undergraduation and graduation levels will find it useful. Even for the teachers of the subject, it is an ideal reference book.

Table of Contents:
PART I — INTRODUCTORY 1. Importance of Public Administration 2. Meaning and Scope of Public Administration 3. Nature and Role of Public Administration 4. Methodology 5. Relationship to Other Sciences 6. Comparative Public Administration 7. International Public Administration 8. Development Administration 9. Basic Principles of Public Administration PART II — ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION 10. Principles and Problems of Organization 11. Organisational Form of Public Enterprises 12. Legislature as the Board of Directors 13. Top Management in Public Enterprises : Board of Directors 14. Chief Executive as the General Manager 15. Units of Organisation : Line and Staff Agencies 16. Line Agencies Department 17. Ministries and Departments in the Government of India 18. Independent Regulatory Commission (IRC) 19. Administration of State Enterprises 20. Government Control of Public Enterprises PART III — PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION 21. Civil Services in India 22. Civil Services in U.S.A. and U.K. 23. Classification and Compensation 24. Recruitment of Personnel 25. Personnel Systems of Civil Service : Bureaucracy 26. Reform of Bureaucracy in India 27. Public Service Commissions in India 28. Training in Civil Service 29. Promotion in Civil Service 30. Conduct and Discipline in Public Administration 31. Retirement in Public Services 32. Morale in Public Services 33. Ombudsman : The Machinery for Redressal of Public Grievances 34. Employees’ Associations PART IV — FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION 35. Public Finance and Budget 36. Financial Administration in U.S.A. and Britain 37. Accounting and Auditing of Public Finance 38. Parliamentary Control Over Finance 39. Financial Relations between the Centre and the States 40. Planning and Planning Commission in India PART V — LEVELS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 41. Decentralization and Local Self-Government 42. Union-State Relations in India 43. Public Administration in Indian States 44. Panchayati Raj in India 45. Administrative Improvement 46. Administrative Reforms 47. Delegation and Delegated Legislation 48. Public Administration and Law—Judiciary 49. Public Relations