Pratītyasamutpāda (Sanskrit: प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद)(Pali: पटिच्चसमुप्पाद)

*Known as Dependent Origination.
*Doctrine of Central Teachings of Lord Buddha
*Pratitya+Samutpada = Pratityasamutpada
*Pratitya = Getting
*Samutpada = Arising
* It means the production of an effect out of a complement of cause and condition.
* Nothing is Spontaneous.
*Everything that happens in the mental or physical world is dependent on something.
*The existence of everything is conditional,dependent on some cause.
* ASMIN SATI , IDAM BHAVATI
* Depending on the cause , the effect arises
* Pratityasamutpada = Middle Path of Saswatvada(Principle of Eternity) and Uchedavada(Principle of Annihilation)
*A/Saswatavada- Somethings are eternal. They have no beggining or end. They are uncaused and do not depend on anything else.
*A/Uchedavad- Nothing remains after the destruction of things.
*The origin of a thing is owing to another.
*Nothing is Unconditional.
*The existence of everything depends on some condition.
* In 2nd Noble Truth ( Cause of Suffering or Dukkha Samudaya)
* Bhava is the cause of the life after death.
* 12 links in the chain of causation or casual wheel of dependent origination.
* 12 Sources( Dvadasa Nidana).
*The 12 links of Interdependent Origination are believed to be the Mechanism by which rebirth occur and the  cycle of Samsara is continued. It is through extinction of Ignorance through Prajna(Wisdom) that the 12 links of Interdependent Origination are extinguished.

CAUSE = EFFECT.

UPSC CSE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OPTIONAL

            

                                               PAPER-I 

                                              Administration Theory

 1. Introduction : Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration, Wilson’s vision of Public Administration, Evolution of the discipline and its present status. New Public Administration, Public Choice approach; Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation; Good Governance: concept and application; New Public Management.]

 2. Administrative Thought : Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement; Classical Theory; Weber’s bureaucratic model its critique and post-Weberian Developments; Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker Follett); Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others); Functions of the Executive (C.I. Barnard); Simon’s decision-making theory; Participative Management (R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor.)

 3. Administrative Behaviour : Process and techniques of decision-making; Communication; Morale; Motivation Theories content, process and contemporary; Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modem:

 4. Organisations : Theories systems, contingency; Structure and forms: Ministries and Departments, Corporations, Companies; Boards and Commissions; Ad hoc, and advisory bodies; Headquarters and Field relationships; Regulatory Authorities; Public-Private Partnerships. 

5. Accountability and Control : Concepts of accountability and control; Legislative, Executive and judicial control over administration; Citizen and Administration; Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations; Civil society; Citizen’s Charters; Right to Information; Social audit.

 6. Administrative Law : Meaning, scope and significance; Dicey on Administrative law; Delegated legislation; Administrative Tribunals.

 7. Comparative Public Administration : Historical and sociological factors affecting administrative systems; Administration and politics in different countries; Current status of Comparative Public Administration; Ecology and administration; Riggsian models and their critique.

 8. Development Dynamics : Concept of development; Changing profile of development administration; ‘Anti-development thesis’; Bureaucracy and development; Strong state versus the market debate; Impact of liberalisation on administration in developing countries; Women and development the self-help group movement.

 9. Personnel Administration : Importance of human resource development; Recruitment, training, career advancement, position classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pray and service conditions; employer-employee relations, grievance redressal mechanism; Code of conduct; Administrative ethics.

 10. Public Policy : Models of policy-making and their critique; Processes of conceptualisation, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review and their limitations; State theories and public policy formulation. 

11. Techniques of Adminstrative Improvement : Organisation and methods, Work study and work management; e-governance and information technology; Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.

 12. Financial Administration :Monetary and fiscal policies: Public borrowings and public debt Budgets types and forms; Budgetary process; Financial accountability; Accounts and audit.

                                                               PAPER-II

                                                       Indian Administration            

                                                                 

1. Evolution of Indian Administration : Kautilya Arthashastra; Mughal administration; Legacy of British rule in politics and administration Indianization of Public services, revenue administration, district Administration, local self Government. 

 2. Philosophical and Constitutional framework of Government : Salient features and value premises; Constitutionalism; Political culture; Bureaucracy and democracy; Bureaucracy and development.
 3. Public Sector Undertakings : Public sector in modern India; Forms of Public Sector Undertakings; Problems of autonomy, accountability and control; Impact of liberalization and privatization.
 4. Union Government and Administration : Executive, Parliament, Judiciary-structure, functions, work processes; Recent trends; Intra-governmental relations; Cabinet Secretariat; Prime Minister’s Office; Central Secretariat; Ministries and Departments; Boards; Commissions; Attached offices; Field organizations.
 5. Plans and Priorities : Machinery of planning; Role, composition and functions of the Planning Commission and the National Development Council; ‘Indicative’ planning; Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels; Constitutional Amendments (1992) and decentralized planning for economic development and social justice.
 6. State Government and Administration : Union-State administrative, legislative and financial relations; Role of the Finance Commission; Governor; Chief Minister; Council of Ministers; Chief Secretary; State Secretariat; Directorates.
 7. District Administration since Independence : Changing role of the Collector; Union-State-local relations; Imperatives of development management and law and order administration; District administration and democratic decentralization.
 8. Civil Services : Constitutional position; Structure, recruitment, training and capacity building; Good governance initiatives; Code of conduct and discipline; Staff associations; Political rights; Grievance redressal mechanism; Civil service neutrality; Civil service activism.
9. Financial Management : Budget as a political instrument; Parliamentary control of public expenditure; Role of finance ministry in monetary and fiscal area; Accounting techniques; Audit; Role of Controller General of Accounts and Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
10. Administrative Reforms since Independence : Major concerns; Important Committees and Commissions; Reforms in financial management and human resource development; Problems of implementation.
 11. Rural Development : Institutions and agencies since Independence; Rural development programmes: foci and strategies; Decentralization and Panchayati Raj; 73rd Constitutional amendment.
12. Urban Local Government : Municipal governance: main features, structures, finance and problem areas; 74th Constitutional Amendment; Global-local debate; New localism; Development dynamics, politics and administration with special reference to city management.
 13. Law and Order Administration: British legacy; National Police Commission; Investigative agencies; Role of Central and State Agencies including para military forces in maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and terrorism; Criminalisation of politics and administration; Police-public relations; Reforms in Police.
 14. Significant issues in Indian Administration: Values in public service; Regulatory Commissions; National Human Rights Commission; Problems of administration in coalition regimes; Citizen administration interface; Corruption and administration; Disaster management. 

ADMINISTRATIVE INSTITUTES IN INDIA

Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration

Department of Personnel & Training

Indian Institute of Public Administration

Assam Administrative Staff College

Anna Institute of Management (Chennai)

Bihar Institute of Public Admn. & Rural Development Development

Administrative Training Institute (Mizoram)

Administrative Training Institute (Nagaland, Kohima)

Administrative Training Institute (Mysore)

Administrative Training Institute (Shillong)

Gopabandhu Academy of Administration (Bhubaneswar)

Haryana Institute of Public Administration (Gurgaon)

Himachal Pradesh Institute of Public Administration (Shimla)

Institute of Management in Government (Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram)

Institute of Management, Public Administration & Rural Development.(Jammu and Kashmir)

Dr. MCR HRD Institute of Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad)

Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration (Chandigarh)

RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration & Management (Bhopal)

HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration (Jaipur)

State Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (Tripura, Agartala)

Sri Krishna Institute of Public Administration (Ranchi)

Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration (Ahmedabad)

Uttarakhand Academy of Administration (Nainital)

U P Academy of Administration and Management (Lucknow)

Union Territory Civil Services, Delhi

Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (Pune)

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Returning Officer and His Duties & Responsibilities

Introduction - The Returning Officer has a pivotal role in election management. He/she is so called because he/she conducts the election in a constituency and returns elected candidate. A Returning Officer is responsible for overseeing the election in one constituency or sometimes in two, as directed by the Election Commission of India. 1.1.2 Under Section 21 and 22 of the R.P. Act, 1951, the Election Commission of India appoints the Returning Officer and Assistant Returning Officer for a constituency, in consultation with the State Governments and the Union Territories as the case may be.
Duties and Responsibilities - The duty of a Returning Officer is to efficiently conduct the election to the Assembly/ Parliamentary Constituency. This involves duties at various stages as follows:            a) to publish the notice regarding the election;
 b) to accept and scrutinize the nomination forms;
 c) to publish the affidavits of candidates
 d) to allot symbols to the contesting candidates;
 e) to prepare the list of contesting candidates;
 f) to print and dispatch postal ballot papers, to manage ETPBs;
 g) to print ballot papers with photograph of candidate for the EVM;
 h) to prepare the EVMs and VVPATs for the elections;
 i) to train polling personnel in all aspects, including use of EVMs with VVPATs;
 j) to depute Polling Officers to the polling booths with election materials;
 k) to supervise the functions of the Polling Officers in his/her AC/PC on Poll day;
 l) to ensure that the free and fair election;
 m) to designate the counting centres and get them approved by the Commission well in advance;
 n) to send notice to the candidates about the place, date and time of counting of votes;
 o) to appoint and train counting staff;
 p) to count the votes and declare the result. 1.3.2 Returning Officer will be given thorough training  regarding his/her various duties and responsibilities. Returning Officer must attend these trainings  and use the sessions for clarifying his/her doubts.

Abbreviations and Acronyms Related to Elections in India

AC               Assembly Constituency
AMF           Assured Minimum Facilities
ARO          Assistant Returning Officer
ASD.           AbsenteeShifted and DeadReRe
BAGs          Booth level Awareness Groups
BDO.           Block Development Officer
BEL               Bharat Electronics Limited
BLO.             Booth Level Officer
BU.               Balloting Unit
CAPF           Central Armed Police Force
CEO.              Chief Electoral Officer
CPF                 Central Police Force
CSV           Classified Service Voter
CU.                Control Unit
DEO           District Election Officer
ECI.                Election Commission of India
ECIL              Electronics Corporation of India Limited
EDC  Election Duty Certificate
EPIC.             Electors Photo Identity Card
ERO           Electoral Registration Officer
ESPs              Expenditure Sensitive Pockets
ETPB             Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot
EVM              Electronic Voting Machine
FLC                First Level Checking
FS.                  Flying Squad
MCC.               Model Code of Conduct
MCMC Media Certificate and Monitoring Committee
M2                    Model 2
M3                    Model 3
NOTA.              None of the Above
PB.                    Postal Ballot
PC                     Parliamentary Constituency
PER.                  Photo Electoral Roll
PPS.                  Pink Paper Seal
PS                      Polling Station
PV.                     Proxy Voter
PVS.                  Photo Voter Slip
RO  Returning Officer
SP                     Superintendent of Police
SST.                  Static Surveillance Team
SVEEP.             Systematic Voter Education and Electoral                                                                                 Participation
VAB.                  Voter Assistance Booth
VCB                    VVPAT Counting Booth
VFP                     Voter Facilitation Poster
VVPAT Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail
VSDU.                  VVPAT Status Display Unit

जिलाधिकारी के कार्य

जिलाधिकारी कार्यालय

जिला प्रशासन का मुख्य कार्य राजस्व प्रशासन, कानून व्यवस्था की समीक्षा, विकास कार्यों की समीक्षा एवं अन्य सरकारी कार्यालयों का नियंत्रण करना है । जिलाधिकारी जिले का मुखिया होता है । जनपद में प्रशासनिक कार्यों को सुचारू रूप से संचालित करने के लिए जिलाधिकारी की मदद हेतु कई वरिष्ठ अधिकारी होते हैं । जिनमें कानून व्यवस्था हेतु वरिष्ठ पुलिस अधीक्षक, विकास कार्यों हेतु मुख्य विकास अधिकारी, राजस्व प्रशासन हेतु अपर जिलाधिकारी, उपजिलाधिकारी तथा वन विभाग में प्रभागीय वनाधिकारी इत्यादि होते हैं ।

जिलाधिकारी के अन्य प्रमुख कार्यों में शस्त्र लाइसेंस जारी एवं रद्द करना, विभिन्न भूमि के अभिलेखों का लेखा जोखा रखना, स्टाम्प एवं रजिस्ट्रेशन कार्य, भूमि सम्बंधी अदालती कार्यों का निबटारा करना इत्यादि हैं । जिले के प्रमुख होने के कारण आम आदमी अपनी शिकायतें सर्वप्रथम जिलाधिकारी के पास ही रखता है, जोकि आम तौर पर जिले के ही कार्यालयों से सम्बंधित होती है । जिलाधिकारी कार्यालय में एक अनुभाग इन शिकायतों के अनुश्रवण एवं निस्तारण का कार्य करता है ।

जिलाधीश' और 'कलेक्टर' के रूप में जिले में राज्य सरकार का सर्वोच्च अधिकार संपन्न प्रतिनिधि या प्रथम लोक-सेवक होता है। जो मुख्य जिला विकास अधिकारी के रूप में सारे प्रमुख सरकारी विभागों- पंचायत एवं ग्रामीण विकास, चिकित्सा एवं स्वास्थ्य, आयुर्वेद, अल्पसंख्यक कल्याण, कृषि, भू-संरक्षण, शिक्षा, महिला अधिकारता, ऊर्जा, उद्योग, श्रम कल्याण, खनन, खेलकूद, पशुपालन, सहकारिता, परिवहन एवं यातायात, समाज कल्याण, सिंचाई, सार्वजनिक निर्माण विभाग, स्थानीय प्रशासन आदि के सारे कार्यक्रमों और नीतियों का प्रभावी क्रियान्वयन करवाने के लिए अपने जिले के लिए अकेले उत्तरदायी होता है।

वह जिला मजिस्ट्रेट के रूप में पुलिस अधीक्षक के साथ प्रमुखतः जिले की संपूर्ण कानून-व्यवस्था का प्रभारी होता है और सभी तरह के चुनावों का मुख्य प्रबंधक भी। साथ ही वह जनगणना-आयोजक, प्राकृतिक-आपदा प्रबंधक, भू-राजस्व-वसूलीकर्ता, भूअभिलेख-संधारक, नागरिक खाद्य व रसद आपूर्ति-व्यस्थापक, ई-गतिविधि नियंत्रक, जनसमस्या-निवारणकरता भी है।

कलेक्टर के कर्तव्य और दायित्व निम्नलिखित है:

भूमि मूल्यांकन भूमि अधिग्रहण भूमि राजस्व का संग्रहण, भूमि रिकार्डों का रख-रखाव, भूमि सुधार व जोतों का एकीकरण बकाया आयकर, उत्पाद शुल्क, सिंचाई बकाया को वसूलना कृषि ऋण का वितरण बाढ़, सूखा और महामारी जैसी प्राकृतिक आपदाओं के समय आपदा प्रबंधन बाह्य आक्रमण और दंगों के समय संकट प्रबंधन जिला बैंकर समन्वय समिति का अध्यक्षता जिला योजना केंद्र की अध्यक्षता

जिला मजिस्ट्रेट के कर्तव्य और दायित्व निम्नलिखित हैं-

कानून व्यवस्था की स्थापना पुलिस और जेलों का निरीक्षण करना अधीनस्थ कार्यकारी मजिस्ट्रेटों का निरीक्षण करना अपराध प्रक्रिया संहिता के निवारक खंड से सम्बंधित मुकदमों की सुनवाई करना मृत्यु दंड के कार्यान्वयन को प्रमाणित करना सरकार को वार्षिक अपराध प्रतिवेदन प्रस्तुत करना सभी मसलों से मंडल आयुक्त को अवगत कराना मंडल आयुक्त की अनुपस्थिति में जिला विकास प्राधिकरण के पदेन अध्यक्ष के रूप में कार्य करना मुख्य प्रोटोकोल अधिकारी के कर्तव्य और दायित्व निम्नलिखित होते है-

जनगणना के कार्य को संपन्न कराना रोजमर्रा की जरुरत की वस्तुओं की आपूर्ति और वितरण पर निगरानी रखना स्थानीय जनता की समस्याओं को सुनना और उनके निवारण हेतु आवश्यक कदम उठाना जिले के युवा सरकारी अधिकारियों की गतिविधियों का निरीक्षण करना और उनके प्रशिक्षण की व्यवस्था करना मुख्य विकास अधिकारी के कर्त्तव्य और दायित्व निम्नलिखित होते हैं-

जिले के सभी विकास कार्यक्रमों व योजनाओं को लागू करना लोकतांत्रिक विकेंद्रीकरण की नीति को प्रभाव में लाना जिले में राज्य के मध्यस्थ अधिकारी की भूमिका निभाना निर्वाचन अधिकारी के कर्त्तव्य और दायित्व निम्नलिखित होते हैं-

जिले में सभी तरह के निर्वाचन कार्यों को सम्पन्न कराना जिले में होने वाले चुनावों का नियंत्रण।