SSLC Social Science I: Chapter 03 Public Administration - Questions and Answers
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Class 10 Social Science I Questions and Answers: Chapter 03 Public Administration
1. Government institutions and their functions
-Primary health centre - Provides treatment facilities.
-Krishi Bhavan - Promotes agriculture
-Police station - Maintains law and order.
2. Aims of government institutions?
-Implementing laws and development programmes designed by the government.
3. Public Administration - definition of N.Gladden
-Public Administration is concerned with the administration of the government.
4. What is public administration?
-Public administration is the effective utilization of men and materials for the implementation of existing laws, governmental policies, programmes and developmental projects.
-Governmental institutions are part of public administration
-They functioned for the welfare of the people.
-Public administration varies according to a system of governance.
5. List out the changes in the objectives of public administration in monarchy and democracy.
-During the monarchy, the interests of the monarch was the basis of public administration.
-In a democratic system, importance is given to the interests of the people.
-Democratic administration becomes more effective and efficient through public administration.
6. Significance of public administration?
-Formulate governmental policies.
-Ensure the welfare of the people.
-Find out solutions to public issues.
-Provide goods and Services.
7. According to Gandhiji, who should get the benefits of administration?
-Gandhiji expected the protection of the interests of all through public administration.
-But those who need more care and protection should be treated and protected separately.
-Gandhiji’s concept of Grama Swaraj influenced India’s outlook of public administration to a great extent.
-Local government institutions were constituted on this basis.
8. Bureaucracy
-The employees who work under a public administrative system and administer the country are together known as ‘bureaucracy’.
9. Significance (aims) of bureaucracy
-Functioning the day-to-day operations of public administration.
-Make the public administration system dynamic.
-Deliver all the services of government to the people.
-Prepares plans for the scientific utilization of human and material resources and implements them effectively.
10. Features of bureaucracy.
-Hierarchical organisation.
-Permanence.
-Appointment on the basis of Qualification.
-Political Neutrality.
-Professionalism.
11. Indian Civil Service
-The Indian Civil Service is made up of all the officers of the Central Government and the State
Government and various Public Sector Enterprises.
-The Indian Civil Service can be divided into three
i. All India Services
-Recruits at the national level
-Appoints in central or state service
Eg: Indian -Administrative Service, Indian Police Service
ii. Central Services
-Recruits at the national level
-Appoints in central government departments only
Eg: Indian Foreign Service, Indian Railway Service
iii. State Services
-Recruits at the state level
-Appoints in state government departments only
Eg: Sales tax officer.
12. Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
-Candidates to all India services and central services are recruited by the Union Public Service
Commission.
-The chairman and the members of this commission are appointed by the President of India.
-The UPSC has elaborate mechanisms for the recruitment of candidates based on qualification.
-UPSC is constituted on the basis of constitutional provisions.
-So UPSC is called constitutional institutions.
13. Public Service Commission (PSC) of the State.
-At the state level, candidates are recruited by the Public Service Commission (PSC) of the State.
-The Governor appoints the Chairman and the members of the State Public Service Commission.
-State PSC’s is constituted on the basis of constitutional provisions.
-So State PSC’s are called constitutional institutions
14. Administrative Reforms
-A number of steps are taken by the government for increasing the efficiency of the services and to provide service to people in a time-bound manner.
-They are known as administrative reforms.
-The intention is to make administration people friendly and efficient.
-For this government constitutes administrative reform commissions at national and state levels.
15. Examples for Administrative Reforms
- E-Governance.
- Right to Information.
- Right to Service.
- Lokpal and Lokayuktha.
- Central Vigilance Commission.
- Ombudsman
16. E-governance
-E-governance is the use of electronic technology in administration.
Examples: - The single window system for admission to Higher Secondary courses.
- Online applications for various scholarships, etc.
17. Benefits of E-governance.
- Can receive service with the help of information technology.
- Need not wait in government offices for services.
- Government services are offered speedily and with less expense.
- Efficiency of the offices and quality of the service get enhanced.
18. Right to Information
- We can collect information from any government office about its working.
- People got this opportunity under the Right to Information Act 2005.
- The efforts of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan of Rajasthan has led to the legislation of the Right to Information Act.
- This ensures the right of all citizens of India to receive information.
19. Main objectives of Right to Information
-The main objectives of this Act are to prevent corruption, create responsibility and make the functioning of the government transparent.
-The citizens will get copies of public documents if they apply for them.
20. Right to Service
-Right to Service Act is a law that ensures services to the people.
-This law determines the time limit for every service given by a government office.
-If the deserved service is not given within this time limit, the responsible employee should pay a fine.
-As per the Right to Service Act, an officer is appointed in every government office to give guidance and proper help to the applicants.
21. Central Vigilance Commission
-The Central Vigilance Commission is the institution constituted at the national level to prevent corruption.
-It came into effect in 1964.
-It is formed to prevent corruption in the central government offices.
-The Central Vigilance Commissioner is the head of the Central Vigilance Commission.
-In every department, there will be a Chief Vigilance Officer.
-The duty of the commission is to enquire into vigilance cases and take necessary actions.
22. State vigilance commissions
-The State Vigilance Commission inquires into corruption in the state government offices.
-Vigilance courts are also constituted to track vigilance cases.
23. Lokpal and Lokayuktha
-Lokpal and Lokayukta are institutions constituted to prevent corruption at administrative, bureaucratic and political levels.
-The institution constituted at the national level to prevent corruption is Lokpal.
-Lokpal has the power to register cases on issues of corruption against employees and public workers and can suggest necessary actions.
-Lokayukta is the institution constituted at the state level to hear the corruption cases
-Both of them follow judicial procedures.
24. Ombudsman
-The Ombudsman is the mechanism for complaints of corruption, nepotism or financial misconduct by Elected representatives and bureaucrats who are part of public administration.
-A retired Judge of the High Court is appointed as the Ombudsman.
-People can directly approach the Ombudsman with complaints.
-On receiving complaints, the Ombudsman has the power to summon anyone and can order enquiry and recommend actions
-Ombudsman has its beginning in the banking sector to hear the complaints of clients and rectify them.
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