Question

Development of the concept of public administration

Answer 1

Development of Administration or Administrative Development

Development of administration means cultural change in administration. It has to be efficient and effective. For that purpose it has to aim at enlargement of administrative capabilities and structural and behavioural change. It is this aspect of administration that is called administrative development or development of administration. In simple terms it means development of administrative system,’of administrative health by introducing-administrative
rationalisation and institution building. The purpose implicit in this concept is not merely changing the administrative procedures and channels but also bringing out fundamental change in administration that leads to:

1) political development,
2) economic growth, and
3). social change.

Concerns of Administrative Development

The capacity of an administrative system to take decisions in order to meet the ever increasing demands coming from the environment and with the objective of achieving larger political and socioeconomic goals.Increase in size, in specialisation and division of tasks and in the professionalisation’of its personnel.A pattern of increasing effectiveness in the optimum utilisation of available means and further augmentation of the means, if necessary.Increase in administrative capability and capacity.Transformation of existing administrative mechanism into a new machinery through modernising the bureaucracy by external inducement, transfer of
technology and training.Replacement bf initiative, practices etc. with those based on realistic needs.Reducing the dependence on foreign experts by producing adequate trained manpower.Promotion of development initiative.Administrative reorganisation and rationalisation.Making modernisation culturally related.Removing or reducing bureaucratic immobility and widespread corruption.Reorientation of established agencies, and the delegation of administrative powers to them.Creation of administrators who can provide leadership in stimulating and supporting programmes of social and economic improvement.

 Features of development administration

Change- Orientation: The first and foremost element of development administration is its change orientation. Change forms part of philosophic values of development administration. Development administration involves itself in establishing a new social order in which growth and distributive justice coexist. For Pai Panandikar the central theme of development administration is socioeconomic and political change. Development administration cannot be status-quo oriented. No development can take place unless and until it introduces certain positive changes in a system. Changes such as structural reorganisation of administration, innovative programme to increase production, remove unemployment, poverty etc., new schemes to improve employer-employee relations must form a part, of development administration.