📝 UPSC Public Administration Optional
3-Hour Full Mock Simulation
⏳ Duration: 3 Hours | 📝 Total Marks: 250
📘 SECTION A – Paper I (Theory)
Q1. Compulsory (5 × 10 = 50 Marks)
Answer in 150 words each:
- Weber’s ideal type bureaucracy and its contemporary relevance.
- Simon’s bounded rationality and decision-making.
- New Public Management vs Good Governance.
- Delegated legislation in modern administration.
- Governance vs Government.
Q2. Answer any TWO (2 × 20 = 40 Marks)
- Critically examine the crisis of bureaucracy in the modern state.
- Discuss the behavioural critique of classical theory.
- Analyse Public Choice theory and its limitations.
Q3. Answer any TWO (2 × 20 = 40 Marks)
- Explain Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Model with examples.
- Administrative ethics and democratic legitimacy.
- Rational vs Incremental model of policy-making.
📘 SECTION B – Paper II (Indian Administration)
Q4. Compulsory (5 × 10 = 50 Marks)
Answer in 150 words each:
- Evolution of Indian administration.
- Constitutional features of Indian federalism.
- Role of Governor in state administration.
- 73rd Constitutional Amendment and decentralization.
- Digital governance in India.
Q5. Answer any TWO (2 × 20 = 40 Marks)
- District Collector: Colonial relic or developmental coordinator?
- Crisis of accountability in Indian administration.
- Civil services neutrality vs commitment.
Q6. Answer any TWO (2 × 20 = 40 Marks)
- Cooperative vs Competitive federalism.
- Administrative reforms with reference to ARC.
- Law and order administration challenges.
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