Many experiences all over the World proved that ICTs can play a major and vital role as an agent of change in rural development. There are several projects being implemented in India, which are employing ICTs to support economic development -income generating venture, increase of agricultural production, improve health conditions and promotes overall quality of life in rural areas. The present book mainly focuses on the role of ICT-led e-Governance programmes in ...
The role of public administration in governance is a continuing topic of discussion and debate. The current worldwide reassessment of the functions of the State and of public officials and civil servants arises from two major sources: one is globalization and its impacts on what governments must do to adapt and respond to rapidly changing international economic, social, political and technological trends; the other is increasing dissatisfaction among citizens in ...
The book offers a Comprehensive Overview of The Indian Administration from its evolution in the ancient time to the present day mammoth Indian administration system. It covers the political, social, economic, cultural and constitutional environment, important features of Indian polity, political executive, central secretariat, central ministers and departments, executive agencies, boards and commissions, constitutional authorities, administrative reforms, ...
Indian Administration: Retrospect and Prospect is a textbook with a difference. Prepared mainly for the benefit of students of Public Administration, it includes a wide range of materials, scattered in learned journals, reports of government commissions and committees and experiences of the Indian civil servants in the field. It is a comprehensive compendium that not only sums up the events of the past, but also suggests workable guidelines for the future ...
The Services have their own customs. Some of them have been handed down from the distant past while others are of more recent origin. A custom is an established usage and, in the main, consists of positive actions which invariably are reasonable and usually universally accepted. Customs made for a more orderly life and, when continued for a long period tend to become common Law. The majority of customs, which are unwritten in official orders or regulations, ...
Ć¢ā¬ĖDefenceĆ¢ā¬ā¢ and Ć¢ā¬ĖOffenceĆ¢ā¬ā¢ are two basic human (better say animal) instincts which are as old as man. It is this very instinct which led primitive man to snatch, to grab, to possess or to dominate others. With the growth of civic sense and emergence of family, community, society and resultantly state Ć¢ā¬ā Ć¢ā¬ĖdefenceĆ¢ā¬ā¢ also emerged as established institution against Ć¢ā¬ĖoffenceĆ¢ā¬ā¢. In India defencce has been uniquely managed since the dawn of civilization. War ...
Public budgeting has become a significant instrument of Government policies. Budget reflects and shapes and in turn is shaped by the countryĆ¢ā¬ā¢s economic life and political system. With burgeoning government expenditure and resource limitations to meet such expenditure, efforts have been towards a series of budgetary reforms. But the traditional Ć¢ā¬Ėline-item budgetĆ¢ā¬ā¢ alone is in vogue because Performance Budget has become a ritual both for the executive and the ...
This book emerges out of an intellectual curiosity that is labouring under pains to deliver what is best to the students of public administration. With the broad aim of catering to the fundamental necessity of the self starters in the discipline, the book goes beyond that and focuses its attention on the wider spectrum of socio-political environment that shapes the Kaleidoscopic horizon of the great discipline in general and the basic cognitive map of the pupils, ...
The present compilation of articles, papers, excerpts and notes is intended as supplementary reading material for students and scholars of public administration. The various courses conducted by public administration institutions at the Central and State levels too have been considered in respect of their syllabus, course contents and requirements. Thus the material presented here would be of interest as well as great use to aspirants of the Central and State ...
Public service ethics : documents from different countries
