What is the Scope of Public Administration?

Management
We encounter public administration everywhere. It is with us, as has been observed, ‘from cradle to grave’. Public administration, simply put, is all about knowledge and technique of administering. It is a cooperative human effort to achieve predetermined administrative goals and objectives. Public administration is made up of two words, public and administration. Public includes all the activities carried out directly or indirectly by the administrative apparatus of the government.The word ‘administer’ is derived from the Latin words ‘ad’ and ‘ministare’ meaning ‘to minister’, ‘to serve’, or ‘to manage’. Woodrow Wilson spoke of public administration as a “detailed and systematic application of law. Every application of law is an act of administration”.In the words of L.D. White, “the art of administration is the direction, coordination, and control of many persons…
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Short Essay on OBC

Industry
British administrators used the abbreviation OBC to mean ‘Other Backward Castes’, in the Constitution; however, OBC refers to backward classes other than Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. They are described as ‘socially and educa­tionally backward classes of citizen’, ‘socially and educationally backward classes’ and as ‘backward class of citizens’ the different Articles of the Consti­tution.After independence, OBCs have been identified through specially appointed commissions. Commu­nities are included in the list of OBCs on the basis of their social and economic backwardness.The Godia Lohar community given to wandering the large castes, for instance, included is the central list of OBCs for Rajasthan, the washer men community is included in central list of OBCs for Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh,…
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What are the adverse effects of Deforestation?

Management
The adverse effects of Deforestation are as follows:Deforestation is also one of the important causes of environmental change. About 30 per cent of the earth’s surface is covered with forests. The human pressure on forests has, however, significantly increased in recent decades, especially after the Second World War. ADVERTISEMENTS: The need for more agricultural land, expanded demand for fuel and commercial wood and more demand for mutton and beef can be satisfied by replacing forests with clear grazing and agricultural lands (shifting cultivation, plantation and large-scale ranching, logging).The rapid deforestation particularly that of tropical regions, is contributing to the enhanced greenhouse effect moreover, removal of the protective vegetation cover and its replacement with a crop or pasture often results in accelerated soil erosion that exacerbates nutrient deficit. Image Source: assets.worldwildlife.orgRapid…
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Essay on the Status of Orphaned, Delinquent and Destitute Children in India

Nutrition
The niche in which children derive happiness and joy is the family which provides them food, clothing and shelter on the one hand and opportunities to realise their full potential on the other.Unfortunately a large number of children are deprived of parental protection because of death or desertion of one or both parents, inability of parents to take adequate care due to disease, alcoholism, poverty etc., or abandonment which could be because of birth before marriage of the mother. Such children, who are actually in need of care and protection become victims of abuse and neglect by adults.Some of them take to rag picking, begging, petty crimes etc., for which they are punished in different ways. Several of them are admitted in institutions in which they are encouraged to learn…
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What are 3 Important Types of Authority?

Government
Weber distinguished three types of authority which he differentiated in terms of their sense of legitimation. (1) Charismatic Authority: This form authority is based on the particular qualities an individual exhibits, which brings about a very strong emotional devotion by his followers. The term charisma means the ‘gift of grace’ which originally had-a religions connotation but which is used in popular parlance to refer to someone who sways the crowds with his/her presence and personality. Leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King. Jr. has exercised a charismatic authority over their followers.Charismatic authority is dependent on a person; it lasts as long as the person exists. In some cases, the charismatic authority has a sanction of tradition in which case it combines the elements of both personality and sacred tradition…
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Man Is Most Responsible For Our Recent Environmental Changes

Paintings
Environmental change is a continual process that has been in operation since the earth came into existence about 4,500 million years ago.Since then, dynamic systems of energy and material transfers have operated on a global scale to bring about gradual and sometimes catastrophic transfor­mations of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere.For most of the earth history, the agents of change have been the natural forces like volcanoes, earthquakes and natural elements of wind, ice, water, plants and animals; all of these have interacted to produce dynamic ecosystems that both controls are controlled by each other (Mannion, 1991). Image Source: minapacific.org ADVERTISEMENTS: About four or five million years ago, however, a new agent of change emerged in the form of hominids (ancestor of ape) culminating in the evolution of Homo sapiens…
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10 Important Features on Indian Urbanization

Accounting
The salient features of the Indian urbanization may be summarized as under:(1) The history of urbanization in India is quite old as towns and urban places flourished in the Indus Valley around 2500 B.C.(2) Urbanization in India during the ancient and medieval periods was associated with the seats of administrations, capitals and trading centers. ADVERTISEMENTS: (3) After the arrival of the Europeans in India, urbanization rate was accelerated mainly because of the location and establishment of modern factories and industries.(4) Urbanization in India during the present century was associated with a particular theme in each decade: 1901-1911 famine and plague; 1911-1921 influenza epidemic; 1921-1931 agricultural depression; 1931-1941 war; 1941-1951 partition of the subcontinent; 1951-1961 planned development; 1961-1971 emergence of new urban centers in backward areas and concentrated urban development near…
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10 Steps the Central Government Must Take to Improve Agriculture in India

Government
The state and central governments of our country should take necessary steps to improve agriculture in India. It is essential to increase the production of food grains and other cash crops. To achieve this aim, a programme was devised through the Five Year Plans.It included the following:i. To develop various means of irrigation, so that more land could be brought under agriculture. ADVERTISEMENTS: ii. To increase the availability of chemical fertilisers at subsidised rates, either through production or through imports.iii. To develop and produce new hybrid varieties of seeds, which will help in increasing the yield of various crops.iv. The government would fix a minimum purchase price for various crops every year. Image Source: upload.wikimedia.org ADVERTISEMENTS: v. To provide adequate and timely loans to farmers, on easy terms, to buy…
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3 Important Areas of Petroleum Production in India

Essays
In India, petroleum was discovered in 1860, when Assam Railway was laying down railway track near Margherita. After several attempts petroleum was struck at Makum on 26 March 1867. Another important achievement was the discovery of petroleum in the Digboi area in 1889. The Burmah Oil Company started exploring oil in the Surma valley region in 1915. Until 1953, the Digboi area was the sole producer of mineral oil in India.At present, there are four main petroleum producing regions in the country. Two of them are on-shore the Brahmaputra valley and the Gujarat coast. The other two are off-shore the western coast off-shore oilfields and the eastern coast off-shore oilfields. About two-third of the total petroleum production in India comes from the off-shore oilfields. Image Source: images.csmonitor.com 1. The Brahmaputra…
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Why Regional Imbalance has been Persisting in India?

Economic Development
The major reason at an all India level has been the low rate of economic growth. The rate of economic growth in India in the 1960s and 70s was about 3.5% and about 5% in the 80s. This was not significant enough to impart regional equality despite policies consciously designed to favour backward regions being followed. Secondly, the root of these states’ backwardness lies in their socio-economic and political organisation itself. Bihar and eastern U.P. did not have land reforms properly implemented.In Bihar and Orissa even land consolidation unlike Punjab and Haryana have not taken place effectively. Thirdly, the backward states have a lower level of infrastructural facilities such as power, irrigation, roads telephones and modern market for agricultural produce. Fourthly, these states also have a lower level of social…
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