Organisation and Management of Public Distribution System is one of the pioneering works done on the public distribution system in the country. The book contains a detailed analysis of the administration of the PDS as also the operational aspects of the fair price shops. The book also contains an exhaustive account of how PDS has been targeted towards the consumers. A a number of suggestions have been made in this book to further revamp the system so that to make it more effective. The book also attempts at defining the problems associated and the solutions thereof for the overall improvement of the PDS in terms of its delivery system.

Indian Administration as a proper is being taught at the graduate and postgraduate level in Public Administration syllabus in almost all the Indian Universities. The various courses conducted by Public Administration institutions at the Central and State level 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 the students of Public Administration. This book has been especially designed for UGC-NET Examination, M.A. (Public Administration) and other competitive examinations conducted by UPSC and Public Service Commission of various States.

This book deals with the topics like-Administrative Legacies at the time of Independence-Civil Services; District and Revenue Administration; Organisation of Government of Centre and State Level; Organisation of Secretariat, Ministers and Departments; Personnel Administration-Classification of Services, Recruitment, UPSC, State Service Commission, Training, Promotion, Discipline, Morale, Employer-Employee Relations; Financial Administration; Formulation of Plans, Planning Commission, National Development Council, Centre-State Relations; Control over Administration Legislative, Executive and Judicial; District Administration, Role of District Collector, Local Government-Rural and Urban; Panchayati Raj Institutions; Citizens and Administration; Delegated Legislation; Administrative Adjudication, and Administrative Reforms.

Theory of Public Administration as a paper is being taught at the graduate and postgraduate level in Public Administration syllabus in almost all the Indian Universities. The various courses conducted by Public Administration institutions at the Central and State level 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 of great use of the students of Public Administration. This book has been especially designed for UGC-NET Examination, M.A. (Public Administration) and other competitive examinations conducted by UPSC and other State Public Service Commissions.

This book deals with the topics namely-Nature and Scope of Public Administration; Public Private Administration; Various Administrative Thinkers (Kautilya, Woodrow Wilson, Gulick and Urwich, FW Taylor, Henry Fayol etc).; Human Relation Theory; Bureaucratic Theory; Classical Theories; Approaches to the Study of Public Administration; Behavioural System; Structural Functional; Decision Making; Bases of Organisation; Formal and Informal; Principles of Organisation- Hierarchy; Span of Control; Unity of Command; Delegation; Decentralisation, Coordination; Line-Staff Agencies; Leadership; Motivation and Communication etc.

Administrative Thinkers as a paper is being taught at the graduate and post graduate level in Public Administration syllabus in almost all the Indian Universities. The various institutions at the Central and State level 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 of great use to the students of Political Science. This book has been especially designed for UGC-NET Examination, M.A. (Political Science) and other competitive examinations conducted by UPSC and Public Service Commission of various States.

CONTENTS
Administrative Thought; Kautilya; Herbert A. Simon; Woodrow Wilson; Chester I. Barnard; Mary Parker Follet; Frederick Herzberg; George Elton Mayo; Abraham H. Maslow; Frederick Winslow Taylor; Henry Fayol; Luther Gulick and L.F. Urwick; Max Weber; McGrego Douglas; Chris Argyris; Peter Drucker; Robert K. Merton; Peter M. Blau, Mahatma Gandhi; Jawahar Lal Nehru etc.