Sunday, May 22, 2011

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Previous Question Paper 2009

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Paper-I

Time Allowed : Three Hours

Maximum Marks : 300

INSTRUCTIONS

Each question is printed both in Hindi and in English.
Answers must be written in the medium specified in the Admission Certificate issued to you, which must be stated clearly on the cover of the answer-book in the space provided for the purpose. No marks will be given for the answers written in a medium other than that specified in the Admission Certificate.

Candidates should attempt Question Nos. 1 and 5 which are compulsory, and any three of the remaining questions selecting at least one question from each Section.

The number of marks carried by each question is indicated at the end of the question.

SECTION-A

  1. Comment on any THREE of the following statements in not more than 200 words each:
    20 × 3 = 60

    1. ''The field of Public Administration is a field of business.'' (Woodrow Wilson)
    2. ''New Public Administration is .... a revolution or radicalism in words, and (at best) status-quo in skills or technologies.''
    3. ''Taylor's contribution was not a set of general principles for organising work efficiency, but a set of operating procedures that could be employed in each concrete situation to secure their application.''
    4. ''The Barnard-Simon Theory of Organisation is essentially a theory of motivation.''

  2. Answer the following in about 300 words each:
    30 × 2 = 60

    1. Consider the statements below:

    1. ''Technically, the bureaucracy represents the purest type of legal-rational authority.''
    2. ''Bureaucracy does not represent the only type of legal authority.''

    Identify the theoretical context and analyse the above statements.
  3. Which of the model(s) in development administration is/are characterised by 'Selectivism', 'Attainment' and 'Poly-functionalism'? Describe the corresponding theoretical roots and attributes.
  4. It is said that ''the perspective public administration, developed over a century, with a tradition of management of public institutions and services has received a jolt from the novelty of New Public Management''.
    Bring out the core values, approaches and assumptions of traditional public administration and show how the New Public Management has attempted to change or retain them, and to what extent.
    60
  5. From Woodrow Wilson to Herbert Simon most writers on administration have taken the achievement of efficiency as the central objective. Justify the statement with references to the work of major writers.
    60

    SECTION-B

  6. Answer any THREE of the following questions in not more than 200 words each:
    20 × 3 = 60

    1. ''There is no doubt that departmentalisation is fraught with complexities. These are in part technical, in part political.'' Discuss.
    2. ''Techniques like PERT and CPM help in effective office management.'' Elaborate.
    3. ''... non-western states often, if not always, have unbalanced politics, but these may not necessarily be bureaucratic politics.'' Discuss. ''Yehezkel Dror's normative models of policy making tend to be academic in perspective with poor operational utility.'' Comment.

  7. Consider the statements below:
  8. Self-Help Groups (SHGs) enable women to realise their full potential in some spheres of life.
  9. Self-Help Groups (SHGs) are providing avenues of political mobilisation.
    Examine the implications of these two statements and assess the potential of SHGs for development.
    60

  10. It is said that 'position classification', as originally conceived is sound in terms of its operational characteristics, but complicated and unresponsive in practice. Why is it still considered better than other models of civil service classification?
    60

  11. ''... even if policies are well organized, efficiently operated, widely utilized, adequately financed and supported, we may still ask, so what? Do they work? .... What about their costs, outputs and impact?'' Discuss.
    60

    PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

    Paper II

    Time Allowed : Three Hours

    Maximum Marks : 300

    INSTRUCTIONS
    Each question is printed both in Hindi and in English.
    Answers must be written in the medium specified in the Admission Certificate issued to you, which must be stated clearly on the cover of the answer-book in the space provided for the purpose. No marks will be given for the answers written in a medium other than that specified in the Admission Certificate.
    Candidates should attempt Questions 1 and 5 which are compulsory, and any three of the remaining questions selecting at least one question from each Section.
    The number of marks carried by each question is indicated at the end of the question.
    SECTION-A

    1. Attempt any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
      3 × 20 = 60

      1. ''Bureaucracy developed by the British stifled the village self-rule.'' Comment.
      2. Comment on the view that despite different contexts, administrative maxims of Kautilya's Arthashastra bear considerable similarity with features of Weber's ideal bureaucratic model.
      3. ''The weakest aspect of Indian administration is the grievance redressal machinery''. Discuss.
      4. ''There is no basic contradiction between Civil Service neutrality and Civil Service activism.'' Comment.

      1. ''Law and order problems of the twenty-first century cannot be tackled through legislations and structures of the nineteenth century.'' Give suggestions for transforming the law and order machinery at the State level.
        30

      2. ''The recommendations of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission on reforming the Civil Service are radical yet implementable.'' Do you agree?

      30

      1. Briefly discuss the main recommendations of any two of the following:
        30

        1. Paul Appleby (1953 and 1956)
        2. Santhanam Committee
        3. Hota Committee
        4. Sixth Pay Commission

      2. Examine the role of the Finance Ministry of the Union Government in designing and implementing monetary and fiscal policies.

      30

      1. Discuss the relationship between governance and development in any one Indian State, giving illustrations.
        30

      2. Do State Services suffer in comparison with the All-India and Central Services? Suggest measures for enhancing the role, competence and impact of State Services.

      30

      SECTION-B

    2. Comment on any three of the following statements in not more than 200 words each:
      3 × 20 = 60

      1. ''India has failed to devise a long-term strategy for drought management.''
      2. ''A fixed tenure in Civil Service postings can increase productivity, accountability, and probity in Government.''
      3. ''Sound municipal governance requires a cadre of specialized municipal services executives equal in status to State Services.''
      4. ''Administrative talent of a Minister determines his success.''

      1. ''The respective roles of the Cabinet Secretary of the Government of India and of the Chief Secretary of a State are similar in certain respects, and dissimilar in others.'' Explain.
        30

      2. Do you agree with the view that Citizens' Charters in India have not succeeded in their objective of making the administrative system citizen-centric? Analyze and give your suggestions in this regard.

      30

      1. ''The National Human Rights Commission has done as commendable job in developing a sense of responsibility among organizations towards the protection of human rights.'' Comment on this assessment.
        30

      2. In your view, which have been the five most important administrative reforms implemented after Independence? What has been their impact?

      1. ''Values of Indian administration must be rooted in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution.'' Discuss.
        30

      2. ''Many of the programmes of development being implemented at the State and the Local level have been initiated or financed by the Union Government. This has transformed the nature of Indian federalism''. Critically examine this assessment.

      30
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Science And Technology Current Affairs

  • Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh declared that the Union government had approved two more tiger reserves in Karnataka. Following the government’s approval, B.R. Hills in Chamarajanagar district and Kudremukh in Chikmagalur district became the 40th and 41st tiger reserves in the country. The minister also observed that shifting of the 700 families living in the Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary was one of the most successful examples of relocation in the India.
  • The expert group on strategies for low carbon growth submitted its report. The expert group was headed by Kirit Parikh. The expert group was set up in the aftermath of the December 2009 Copenhagen Summit with the objective of suggesting a low carbon growth strategy including sector-specific initiatives. The report by the expert group suggested a possibility of a higher range of emission intensity reduction up to 35% by 2020 over 2005 level. The Parikh expert group found that implementing the existing policies would make sure an emission intensity reduction of almost 25% at growth rate of 8% and a 24% reduction at 9% growth. The expert group further stated that fuel efficiency in transport sector, including the railways, emission cut in industries like steel, oil, cement and gas by adopting new technologies will be the part of a low carbon strategy.
  • The Indian Union Ministry of Environment gave its approval to India’s first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) specialising in infrastructure development in Himalayan region in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh. The IIT with 8000 students and 800 faculty members will be spread in an area of 500 hectares in Kamand region of the district. Of this land, 125 hectares will be forestland.
  • The Union Minister of Environment and forests, Jairam Ramesh stated on 6 May 2011 that it had cleared the 400 MW Maheshwar hydroelectric power project on the Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh. The ministry had given stop-work order after it was discovered that the Shree Maheshwar Hydel Power Corporation had failed to implement its resettlement and resettlement programme meant for people living in villages whose homes will be destroyed because of the construction of dam. The Narmada Bachao Andolan had spearheaded the protest against the project.
  • Pig-nosed Turtles are facing extinction threat because of large scale poaching. The demand for tortoise meat is high because people think that it has aphrodisiacal qualities. Pig-nosed turtle is listed on the IUCN red list of threatened species. It was added to the list in 1996.Pig-nosed Turtle weigh over 20 kg and grows to about 70 cm in shell length. The turtle is best adapted to an aquatic lifestyle with the exception of marine turtles.
  • Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) unveiled a supercomputer on 2 May 2011, which is to be India's fastest supercomputer in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second). The supercomputing facility named as Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility is located at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram.The new Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) based supercomputer named SAGA-220 (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 TeraFLOPS) is being used by space scientists for solving complex aerospace problems. The supercomputer SAGA-220 was inaugurated by Dr K Radhakrishnan, Chairman, ISRO at VSSC.SAGA-220 Supercomputer is fully designed and built by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre using commercially available hardware, open source software components and in house developments.
  • The first American in space, late Alan Shepard, was honoured with his own stamp on 4 May 2011 on the eve of the 50th anniversary of his flight. The success of Shepard's flight had helped lead America to the moon. Shepard later became the fifth man to walk on the moon. He died in 1998 at age 74.The Postal Service dedicated the Forever stamp to commemorate Shepard's suborbital flight on 5 May 1961. He is the first astronaut to be honoured, all by himself, on a stamp. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first man to go to space and he had defeated Alan Shepard by one month.
  • On 3 May 2011, the Department of the Environment and Forests of India declared of setting up a National Environmental Appraisal and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA) as a part of efforts to bring in institutional reforms and improve environmental governance. As a professional, science-based and autonomous entity tasked with environmental appraisals and monitoring of compliance, NEAMA is planned to mark a major improvement over the prevailing system of the institutional reforms and environmental governance.NEAMA is expected be more effective in addressing conflict of interest issues through separation of the processes of appraisal and approval. The appraised projects look for an approval of the Department of the Environment and Forests of India to ensure the principle of executive accountability.
  • First Ministerial Conference on Healthy Lifestyles and Non-communicable Disease Control was organised in Moscow by World Health Organisation on 28 and 29 April 2011. At the conference mental disorders was included in the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) list at India’s insistence. India achieved a major success on the global platform by pushing for inclusion of mental health in the list of non-communicable diseases. Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad led the Indian delegation to Moscow.Mental health as a NCD was adopted in the Moscow Declaration on 29 April 2011. It was agreed that that NCDs such as mental disorders significantly contribute to the global disease burden.
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International Current Affairs May 2011

  • South Pacific island nation SAMOA, currently positioned to the east of the International Date Line on 9 May 2011 decided to forego a day (28 December 2011) and shift to the time zone on its west to facilitate trade with Australia and New Zealand. The island nation in the South Pacific is currently 21 hours behind both countries, Australia and New Zealand. This implies that that the nation loses two working days a week with them. However with its decision to move to the other side of the date line, Samoa will move three hours ahead.
  • India ratified in the second week of May 2011, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and its three protocols and the United Nations Convention against Corruption. The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime is the main international instrument in the fight against transnational organised crime. It recognises the need to foster and enhance close international cooperation in order to tackle those problems. The convention is further supplemented by three Protocols, which target specific areas and manifestations of organized crime namely Protocols to combat (1) trafficking in persons (2) migrant smuggling and (3) illicit trafficking in firearms.
  • In the 2nd May 2011 Canadian Federal Election, Canada's Conservatives had a decisive victory making it a majority in Canada's Parliament. Conservative Party won 54% of the seats in the Parliament and secured a stable four-year term in power. It acquired 167 seats in the Canada's Parliament. The Liberals were reduced to a dismal third place. Ignatieff even lost his own seat in a Toronto suburb. Candian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper’s victory, along with Conservative party’s control of the Senate, put the Conservatives in firm control of the federal agenda for the first time since the early 1990s.
  • Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 11 September 2001, terror attacks was killed on 1 May 2011 in his luxury hideout in Pakistan in a fire fight with U.S. forces. President Barack Obama broke the news in the White House on 1 May. Bin Laden was killed after a gun battle with Navy SEALs and CIA paramilitary forces at a compound in the city of Abbottabad in Pakistan. The operation was codenamed Operation Geronimo. He was shot in the left eye and killed inside a secured private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs in a covert operation. Abbottabad is home to three Pakistan army regiments and thousands of military personnel and is dotted with military buildings. The team returned to Afghanistan with bin Laden's body and the body later buried at sea.
  • Prince William and Catherine (Kate) Middleton were married at Westminster Abbey, London on 29 April 2011. 1900 guests watched the couple exchanging their vows, while millions of people around the world watched the ceremony live on TV. Prince William wore a military uniform, a tunic, with a crimson and gold sash and gold sword slings, from the Irish National Guards. On 29 April 2011, the day of wedding, Prince William was given the title of the Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus by Queen Elizabeth II. After marriage Miss Catherine Middleton became Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. The title of duke is the highest rank below that of monarch in the British nobility.
  • Vanuatu, a small island nation in the South Pacific is set to become the 154th member of the World Trade Organisation. Once the WTO's General Council approves the accession package in its next meeting, Vanuatu will have six months to complete the ratification. Russia and Algeria are the two main trade economies outside the WTO.
  • Lobsang Sangay was on 27 April 2011 elected Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-exile. He would take over the political duties relinquished by spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. Sangay got 55 per cent votes out of 49189 votes. He defeated his nearest rival Tethong Tenzin Namgyal by 8646 votes. As many as 83399 exiled Tibetan settled in India, Bhutan, Nepal, Australia, United States, Japan, Russia and other countries exercised their franchise to elect the Prime Minister and 43 members of Tibetan Parliament-in-exile. The tenure of the newly elected Prime Minister would be five years.
  • The leaders of two main Palestinian-factions, Fatah and Hamas on 4 May 2011 signed a reconciliation agreement. The agreement signed between the two factions paved the way for the formation of transitional national unity government followed by elections. The accord signed helped to end a four year feud between Fatah and Hamas and the signing of the account will be followed by preparations for the formation of an interim government. Three separate committees will be formed, which will plan for the upcoming polls as well as recommend internal reforms within the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). PLO is the umbrella group of the Palestinian factions. The pact is widely seen as fallout of the Egyptian uprising that resulted in the formation of military-led transitional government in Cairo that played a key role brokering the intra-Palestinian accord. Both factions aim at a new and viable Palestinian state on land occupied by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
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4 Tips While Using Google Earth

Street View can be enabled in Google Earth by checking the layer of the same name under the Layers section. Once the Street View layer is turned on, geographical locations which have been photographed by the Google Street View vehicles show up in the map marked by little camera icons.

Even though USA and some other nations have been exhaustively covered, Street View is not available for all countries owing to various reasons including privacy and national security. But wherever Street View panoramas are available, you can apply the following tips to get the best out of Google Earth.

Navigation




google earth street search
Left click on the camera icon of a location to bring up the Placemark with details like physical address of that location. You can launch Street View by clicking on the link in the placemark or by double clicking on the camera icon.
google earth street view
Some locations have multiple layers of Google Earth Street View embedded with each layer marking a significant landmark in or around the location. To find locations with layers, just hover the mouse over the location and if you see the Compass symbol, there is more to that place. For example, in the case of Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln’s Presidential Library is also linked to the Street View icon and clicking on it takes us directly to the venue.

Accessing The Panorama

All the Street View images offer a 360 degree panoramic view of the location. Panoramas cannot be more awesome but it will be quite annoying to see a particular section of the image immediately. Like a puppy chasing its tail, we will have to move left or right to find the spot we are looking for. To avoid this in Google Earth, hover your mouse over the arrows on the top right corner of the Street View.
google earth street search
A rectangular thumbnail view of the Street View is displayed and you can just click on it to view the exact location you want to see without having to go round and round the panorama.

Finding The Distance

google earth street search
By using the Ruler tool, we can find the distance between two Street View locations. Once you select the ruler option, just connect the line between two Street View Icons to view the distance between the two.

Adding Other Layers

google earth street view
From the Layers section, we can add overlays to complement the street view. For example, adding the 3D buildings and weather layers adds 3D models of buildings & weather information to the location. These layers can be viewed by adjusting the transparency slider which sits just above the Layers section.

Final Thoughts

Street View has been implemented in both Google Maps and Google Earth. However, the Google Earth Street View implementation offers a better 3D experience when viewing the surroundings. Users can also add their own placemarks and create paths between places for future reference & travel.
One gripe of mine is that the images are not of very high quality and often are fuzzy & look smudged. Considering the fact that Google Earth is a desktop application, high definition images can be handled without hogging system resources unlike a web browser. Hopefully Google will add images of higher resolutions in the near future.
Google Earth can be a fun application too. Check out how you can use Google Earth to play games, feel the speed of a flight simulator or investigate conspiracy theories.
Do you know of a better Google Earth tip? Please share it with us in the comments below.

Top 10 Expensive Antivirus In The World

What will you do if a computer virus finds its way into your computer and eats into the health of your computer to bring a near about downfall? Prevention is always better than cure and to go for the antivirus software is the idyllic means to fight the viruses tooth and nail. By opting for antivirus software you enjoy a wealth of benefits and you can be sure to prevent the downtime as well as guard against the theft of valuable information.
The list given below includes the top 10 antivirus software, as the antivirus software that find a place in this list are known to be active fighters of viruses and have also enabled protective solutions to many users, and in turn have become the most sought antivirus software that provides perfect protection.

Shield Deluxe Antivirus Protection


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Shield Deluxe Antivirus Protection
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Trend Micro Antivirus Internet Security 2010

Trend Micro Antivirus Internet Security 2010
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Norton AntiVirus 2010

Norton AntiVirus 2010
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Panda Antivirus Pro 2010

Panda Antivirus Pro 2010
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ZoneAlarm Anti-virus 2010

ZoneAlarm Anti-virus 2010
As one of the best virus protection software, it comes with enhanced detection as well as removal capabilities. The antivirus software that is one of the top 10 antivirus software provides spyware removal protection, and it embraces a simple process to get installed, as it makes use of advanced virus removal technology. Among the many benefits afforded by this antivirus software, wireless PC protection, instant virus protection enabled by pre-loaded security settings, proactive firewall protection happen to be quintessential ones, and it fights the latest as well as the most aggressive viruses to protect your computer from getting infected by viruses.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus

ESET NOD32 Antivirus
As a proactive detector of viruses, ESET NOD32 Antivirus also disables viruses, worms, Trojans, phishing, spyware, rootkits in the most perfect and ruthless fashion. This antivirus software that takes its place in the top 10 antivirus software offers best protection against that of threat as well as attacks, blocks all kinds of attempts as when collecting as well as forwarding of the confidential data gets attempted, provides real time scanning and a good scanning speed among the other benefits, and ESET NOD32 Antivirus gets supported by that of Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit and Windows 2000.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010
Kaspersky Anti-Virus is computer-friendly but antivirus, as it provides protection against unknown and known threats, as well as against that of unwanted data. Through user applications, it helps in monitoring system activities and prevents dangerous actions that could be caused by applications. As one of the top 10 antivirus software, it provides NNTP and E-mail IMAP protocol checking support, it unveils restore capabilities are built-in system, as technical support afforded as when a toll-free number gets contacted, and it also offers good threat response time. This antivirus software is a good bet as when you plan for the safety of our computer.

McAfee VirusScan

McAfee VirusScan
McAfee VirusScan provides effective protection against that of virus as well as network threats. As one of the popular antivirus software McAfee VirusScan is one of the top names in the field of security software, and the VirusScan Plus, the desktop antivirus is really a good one. Finding a place in the top 10 antivirus software, the redeeming qualities that catapult McAfee VirusScan into recognition and popularity happen to be the integrated firewall, plugin for that of safe browsing as well as that of Laptop battery-saving mode. It provides protection from that of spyware, and fights against the worms, viruses, rootkits and Trojans. It can be installed easily, and it finds and eliminates the threats on itself.

F-Secure Antivirus 2010

F-Secure Antivirus 2010
As another reliable security solution, F-Secure antivirus is fast and streamlined as well as is effective. It comes with advanced protection technology as well as with integrated security features. It provides real time protection, as it fights effectively as against many computer threats as that of spyware, viruses, Trojans and worms, as they are also equipped to locate as well as eliminate the rootkits that are deeply entrenched. It also provides easy installation, and as one of the top 10 antivirus software it delivers quality solution and possesses innovative protection network.

AVG Anti-Virus 2010

AVG Anti-Virus 2010
With compelling features entwined with precise technology, AVG Anti-Virus offers top great solutions and is an adequate antivirus solution which gets installed in a simple fashion. As a strong contender to enter the top 10 antivirus software, it includes antivirus and spyware protection and it also offers protection from that of harmful downloads as well as sites. It comes with LinksScanner and integrated browser Surf-Shield, and there is also the identity theft recovery unit which converts this antivirus software into a powerful one.
If any of the renowned antivirus software that provides unrivalled protection is left out, please let us know. We welcome your comments too!