Local Government in India-II

Paper Code: 
POL 614
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Rationale: This paper focuses on the conceptualization and working of urban local government in India. Local Government and politics in urban India has an appreciable say in the processes of democratic decentralized governance. The course intends to generate familiarity with the issues of politics involved in managing socio-economic development through urban local institutions. The paper also deals with the 74th Constitutional Amendment as an important milestone in the movement towards greater urban local autonomy.

9.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

The concept of Local Government in a welfare state

Patterns of Urban Local Government -Composition, Structures & Powers

 

9.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

74th Amendment and Urban Local Government

 

9.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Urban Local Finances

9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Personnel Administration

 

9.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

State Control over these bodies

 

Essential Readings: 

Ø  SL Goel, Public Administration, New Delhi, Deep and Deep Publications, New Delhi,2003

Ø  Awasthi and Maheshwari, Public Administration: Theory and Practice, Lakshmi Narain Agarwal,Agra,2004

Ø  S.R.Maheshwari , Local Government in India, Lakshmi Narayan Agarwal, Agra, 2013

Ø  K.N. Basiya, Financial Administration in India,  Himalya Publishing House, Bombay,1986

Padam Nath Guatam, Financial Administration in India, Vitt Prashan, Haryana Sahitya Academy, Chandigarh, 1993.

References: 
  • Daiv E. Klainger: Public Personnel Management, IPMA, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, New Jeresy,1986.
  • Edwin, B. Fllipo:Principles of Personnel Management, 6th edition, McGraw Hill, Singapore, 1984.
  • W. Cunning Mourice, Theory and Practice of Personnel Management, Heinemann, London,1968.
  • S.L. Goel, Financial Administration, Deep and Deep Publication, New Delhi, 2002.

 

Academic Year: 
2015-16
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