Thursday, 12 February 2026

 

📝 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:

  1. Weber’s ideal type bureaucracy and its contemporary relevance.
  2. Simon’s bounded rationality and decision-making.
  3. New Public Management vs Good Governance.
  4. Delegated legislation in modern administration.
  5. Governance vs Government.

Q2. Answer any TWO (2 × 20 = 40 Marks)

  1. Critically examine the crisis of bureaucracy in the modern state.
  2. Discuss the behavioural critique of classical theory.
  3. Analyse Public Choice theory and its limitations.

Q3. Answer any TWO (2 × 20 = 40 Marks)

  1. Explain Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Model with examples.
  2. Administrative ethics and democratic legitimacy.
  3. Rational vs Incremental model of policy-making.

📘 SECTION B – Paper II (Indian Administration)

Q4. Compulsory (5 × 10 = 50 Marks)

Answer in 150 words each:

  1. Evolution of Indian administration.
  2. Constitutional features of Indian federalism.
  3. Role of Governor in state administration.
  4. 73rd Constitutional Amendment and decentralization.
  5. Digital governance in India.

Q5. Answer any TWO (2 × 20 = 40 Marks)

  1. District Collector: Colonial relic or developmental coordinator?
  2. Crisis of accountability in Indian administration.
  3. Civil services neutrality vs commitment.

Q6. Answer any TWO (2 × 20 = 40 Marks)

  1. Cooperative vs Competitive federalism.
  2. Administrative reforms with reference to ARC.
  3. Law and order administration challenges.

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