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FairytaleofanIdiot
Tuesday,14June2016 AboutMe
AshishTiwari
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PublicAdministrationhasbeenmostdebatedoptionalinUPSCpreparation,asithas
abigchunkofstudentswhoareeitherstrugglingtocopewithitorwhohavegiven BlogArchive
WhyIchosethisoptional:
WhenIfilledupformforCSE2014,Ihadstillnotmademymindaboutpreparation
and I don't know why but I had filled Public Administration as an optional. when I
decidedtostartpreparingseriouslysinceJuly2014onwards,I was confused about
choosing an optional for serious preparation and then my friend Anupam Singhal
came to my rescue, as he had already started coaching for this and thus advised
metoreadchapteronDistrictCollectorfromArora&GoyaljusttocheckwhetherI
have acumen for the subject or not. I found it interesting and since my time was
limitedbecauseofmyjobprofileandIhadalreadyfilleditinCSE2014,sofinallyI
had to settle with something, Mechanical engineering (My graduation subject) was
not an option for me and hence Public Administration turned out to be a candid
choice.
MyexperiencewithPubAdinUPSC:
Fortunately, I cleared Prelims 2014 and by that time I had only completed 80% of
Paper1 syllabus and almost blank on paper2, So I borrowed notes of my friend
and read major portions like Union, state, judiciary, civil services, PRI and ULB in
that limited time frame along with paper1. I scored 213 (108+106) in CSE2014
MainsandItwasgoodwithanystandardofPubAd,soIunderstoodthatPubAdwill
notdisappointmelaterandeventuallyitdidnotinCSE2015,whereIhavescored
247(132+115)andhencetookmetoAIR6.
CoachingandTestseries:
ClassroomByM.K.Mohantysiratsynergy.
TestseriesatsynergyandPavanKumarsir.
ReferencebooksandmaterialtopicwisewhichIreferred:
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forMA.
3.Administrative Behaviour: New Horizons of Public Administration By Mohit
Bhattacharya,synergyclassnotes.
4.Organisations: Synergy classnotes and New Horizons of Public
AdministrationByMohitBhattacharya,Synergyprintedmaterial(forHQfield
&PPP)
5.Accountability and control: Synergy classnotes, New Horizons of Public
Administration By Mohit Bhattacharya and IGNOU material for MPA, this part
requiresextensiveuseofcasestudyandcurrentevents.
6.AdministrativeLaw:synergyclassnotesandprintedmaterial.
7.Comparative public Administration: Synergy classnotes, New Horizons of
Public Administration By Mohit Bhattacharya and Fred Riggs from Prasad &
Prasad.(pleasereadcritiqueofRiggsianModelspecifically)
8.Development dynamics: New Horizons of Public Administration By Mohit
Bhattacharya, Social theory by Mohit Bhattacharya, Synergy classnotes,
Vajiramclassnotesofgovernanceforselfhelpgroupmovement.
9.Personnel Administration: Synergy class notes, New Horizons of Public
Administration By Mohit Bhattacharya, Fadia & fadia (paper1 and paper2),
2ndARC10threport.
10.Public Policy: Synergy classnotes, IGNOU material complete on public
policy, extensive use of current events and few examples from foreign
countries,particularlywithregardtopolicyevaluation.
11.Techniques of Administrative Improvement: Synergy classnotes (less
important here), Synergy printed material, New Horizons of Public
Administration By Mohit Bhattacharya honestly any material will do for this
topic.
12.FinancialAdministration:14threportof2ndARC,Synergyclassnotes,New
HorizonsofPublicAdministrationByMohitBhattacharya,Fadia&Fadiapaper
1tounderstandhistoricalunderpinnings.
Paper2
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example: Secretariat reforms were talked specifically by Girija shankar
Bajpaicommittee.
11.Rural Development Synergy classnotes, summary of 2nd ARC 6th report
andIndianAdministrationbyArora&Goyal,websiteofMinistryofPanchayati
Rajforcasestudies,Kurukshetramagazine.
12.Urban Local Government: Synergy classnotes, summary of 2nd ARC 6th
report and Indian Administration by Arora & Goyal Yojana for smart city,
variouscasestudiesfromnewspapers.
13.Law & Order Administration: Synergy classnotes, summary of 2nd ARC
5th report, briefly read recommendations of various commissions that are
constituted till date, electoral reforms, case studies for good practices in
various conutries the biggest topic here is accountability of police (we can
refer3tieraccountabilityoflondonpoliceasamodeltobefollowedinindian
police), wole of centre in Law & order administration of a state (particularly
debatesurroundingarticle355),punchhicommissionreportonthis.
14.Significant issues in Indian Administration: Indian Administration by
Arora&Goyal(lastfewchapters),Synergyprintedmaterial,4threportof2nd
ARC, for disaster management read what you are reading for GS, just
remember J.C.Pant committee report, P.K.Mishra committee, CAG
observationsonNDMAand2ndARCrecommandationscrowdmanagementis
thenewestemergingissueinthisarea.
GENERALSTRATEGYWHICHIWOULDRECOMMENDNOW
1.ReadIndianAdministrationbyArora&goyal,Almostallthechaptersare
relevant.
2.Administrativethinkersbyprasad&prasadrightfromIntroduction,readword
bywordincludingsummary,evaluation,criticalevaluation,trytoconnect&
internalize.
3.Allthechaptersneedstobereadinadministrativethinkers,becauseevenif
peterdruckerisnotmentionedinsyllabus,hecanbequotedanywhereif
governmentorganisationsaretobecriticised(abigtimecriticof
government)alsomanyquestionsarecomingfromthosethinkerswhoarenot
mentionedinthesyllabusandhencePrasad&prasadisthebestbookon
whichthebaseistobebuilt,soreadverbatim,makeyourownnotesandyou
cancomplementitwithclassnotesofanycoaching,Thisbookistheonebase
onwhichwewillrideonforpaper1.
4.OnceyouarethroughwithAdministrativethinkersandIntroductionpartof
Paper1,nowrefertothosechaptersinNewHorizonsbyMohitBhattacharya,
establishthelinksandthusconceptswillbecomecrystalclearinmind.
5.Aftergoingthroughclassnotesofallthetopics,readNewhorizonsagainand
againuntillallthethingsdonotbecomeclearinyourmind.
6.Forpaper2,generallyclassnotesworksfinealongwithvalueadditionfrom
ARCreport,Fadia&Fadiaisgoodforfactualinformation,whichwilladdvalue
totheanswers.
7.UseConstitutionalArticles,statements/observationsof2ndARC,rather
thanonlyusingrecommendationsfromthesereports.
8.Usebasicexamplesfromdailynewspaperstoaddunderstandingtoyour
answer.
9.Useandquotenameofvariousadministrativethinkersasandwhenyoucan
doso,donothesitatetoconnectavagueconceptwiththinker.(forexample,
incaseofpolicyparalysis/failure,wecanrefertosingleloop/doubleloop
learningi.e.organisationallearningofchrisargyris,whereinwecansaythat
itisthefailureofbothpolicymakingandimplemantationandbothplayblame
game)
10.UseSimplestlanguagealongwithverycommonexamples,complexityisnot
goingtowork,toaddvaluequotethinkers/keywordsofthesubject,but
pleasekeepthelanguageandvocabulorytothesimplest,thisisnotGRE,dont
pullenglishstringmuch.
Othermaterialswhichisrelevant:
Casestudies:
newspapers,websiteofministryofpanchaytiraj
http://www.panchayat.gov.in/documents/401/84079/sashaktikaran_puraskar.pdf
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Other relevant documents like, find any government report on Social Audit and
grasp some of the best case studies/success stories of social audit, similarly for
other dynamic topics like accountability, transparency any good working example
maybeused.
UseInternationalbestexperienceslike:
ICACofhongkonginpublicservicedelivery,
FalseclaimsactofUSA
(2ndARCreportsprovidesomeverygoodcasestudiesonalmostallthegovernance
topic. For example: if egovernance is being referred, most of us will write
gyandoot of MP Govt as a successful project, now if we can write gyandoot along
withacasestudyfrom2ndARC(eRegistryinmuzzaffarpurdistrictofBihar,ithas
minimised corruption, all the processes are online, no exchange of money and
hencelesscorruption),thiswillgiveadifferencetoouranswer.
ForPolicereforms,wecanquotesouthafricanpoliceact.
For Public Policy chapter: CONEVAL in mexico for policy evaluation, wherein policy
evaluationhasbecomemandatoryandonthebasisofthat,theydevisenewpolicy,
soratherthanfollowingincrementalistparadigm,theyfollowfullpolicycycle,which
we lack in India and bacause of which Progresa of mexico has become most
successfullsocialsecurityplanoftheworld.
http://www.coneval.org.mx/Paginas/principal_EN.aspx
Please read atleast 4th report of 2nd ARC thoroughly, it will help both in ethics as
wellaspublicadministration.
Observationsofvariouscommissions,notrecommendations
Findsometrivialpointsinmodelanswersoranyothersourcelike:
NCRWC analysed and found that Article356 was applied on many occasions and
there were 13 instances till then, where it was applied despite state govt. having
majority in the assembly it highlights misuse of this article and can be used to
supplement our answer. This is not a recommendation rather it is an observation
recommendations everyone may write but not observation and that too a factual
one,itwilladdvalueandweighttoyouranswer.
Outoftheboxsourceswillhelpforexample:Using14thfinancecommissionreport
inquotingPSEsIamnotsayingreadwholereport,iftimepermitsdoreadbutfind
someuniquepointsaboutatopicforexample:FFCobservedthatdisinvestmentin
PSEs needs to be coupled with Reinvestment in few other emerging sectors, very
rarelypeoplequoteFFConPSEsbutthisiswheredifferencewillcome.
FactsonIndianAdministration:
Always try to start or end your answer with some facts, which add weight to the
answer,varioussourcesare:
EconomicsurveyofIndia.
PRSwebsite.
Associationfordemocraticreforms(mainlyforparliament/electoralreforms)
14thFinancecommissionReport.
BudgetofGovt.OfIndia.
fewbookslikeFadia&fadiaaregoodforfactsaboutIndianAdministration.
ReferringjudgementofHigherJudiciary:
I think that we all will agree on how important quoting SC/HC judgements are,
while writing an answer, particularly in paper2 of the subject we all have a good
repositoryofsuchcasesandIthinkNoelaborationisrequiredforthispart,butitis
thestillthetimetestedmethodtofetchmarks,somethingsdonotchangeevenin
turbulence and so are judgements of our hon'able judiciary, please use them as
muchasyoucan.
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Usingthinkersinpaper2.
UsingIndianAdministrationinpaper1.
UsingAdministrativeThinkersinalltheanswersyoucan.
It shows how deep you understand the subject and is absolutely required for
fetchingmarksinthisdroughthitsubject.
TrytowritekeyideasofallthethinkersavailableinPrasad&prasadand
makeagistofkeyideaeveryonehasgiven.
Apartfromthosethinkers,therearefewscholorsinfieldofPubad,whose
namecanbequotedinthatparticulartopic.(Ihavemadeagistofallthis
andamattachingherewith,theseweremadefromsynergyclassnotesand
abitofmodelanswersofvarioustestseries).
Forexample:
DwightWaldoforNewpublicadministration.
GolembwiskiforhisgoalsandantigoalsinNPA.
Gordontullock&ANthonydownsinPublicchoicetheory.
Weallknowthatgovernmentisdifferentfromgovernance,butifwecouldusethe
nameofJamesRosenauwhereverwequotethisidea,itwillbebetter.
Fred Riggs is my most admired thinker because his ideas are relevant in any
question on Indian Administration, be it corruption, declining standards of Indian
Polity, his 4 key works i.e. Hetrogenity, overlapping, Formalism and formation of
clect are the ideas which can be used almost anywhere in paper2 His bazar
canteen model can be used wherever we are quoting corruption or even for that
matter decline in performance of PSEs, because crony capitalism may be growing,
pavingwayforprivatefirmsandlimitingroleofPSEsandthatisbestexplainedby
Riggs that market is dominated by private sector i.e. by those who have more
bargaining power extract more from government, from here we can connect Fred
riggsinStatevs.Marketdebate.
Fewexamplesonhowtodolinkages:
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which He/she can be mentioned believe me friends It will do Wonders, do not
hesitatetousethenameofascholar,itisrequired,foritisnotaGSpaper.
Theselinkageswilldeveloponlywhenwehaveclearunderstandingofallthetopics
andthekeywordsaredeeplyingrainedinourmindandfortheseinterlinkagesand
understanding, there can not be a better book than New horizons of Public
Administration By Mohit Bhattacharya, so make sure NH by MB is read repetitively
andisunderstoodwordbyword.
Answeringtheawkwardquestions:
People always say that it is most difficult to understand the question, it has too
complexlanguageandthethinkerswhichwehavenotread,Irecallonlyoneword
which Mohanty sir at synergy used to sayRelax the muscle...think about the
question and start writing freely what you know..you may not know philosophy of
peter drucker but you can write what has been asked in your words..using all the
thinkers that you know...even if you dont know what peter druker has said So
believeinyourself&write.Igot108lastyear,whenIhadnotevencompletedthe
syllabus of PubAd paper1, because I wrote what I knew about the topic without
botheringforwhatpeterdruckerhadtosayonit.
Practicemakesamanperfect:
Answer Writing is a thing which unfortunately we can not ignore and hence start
practicing, use all the experiments which can be done in mock answers, have a
good peer group who like to think out of the box, get your answers evaluated by
them, Fortunately I had a very good friend (Sandeep Agrawal), who did few
evaluations for me and his suggestions were so honest and precise that it did
wondersforme,somakesureyouhavesomeonewhosetuningforkmatchesyour
frequency.
FinalGyan:
Mywholeblogrevolvesmainlyarounddoingvalueadditioninouranswers,because
Ihaveseenmanyofmyfriendsswingingaroundthatthresholdof200220inpublic
administration, while what is required is to jump this threshold and score in the
bandof240270toensureIASandforthatfewnewexperimentsneedtobedone,I
did few and reached 247 but I hope you will do further innovations in the field of
publicadministrationandscorebeyond270someday.
I think you all are smart enough to see that all this experiments and linkages can
be developed only after a proper base is built, so initially read the basics prepare
the ground for that threshold of 200 marks, it will take 34 months to the
newcomers,onceitisdone,dovalueaddition.
Donotfearforthesubject,ifyouhavechosenthesubjectpleasecontinueitifyou
aregettingtherightpulseforitifyouhaveunderstoodthequestion(mostlytricky
inPubAd)andhavecontent,noonecanstopyoufromgettingselectedDobelieve
inwhatyouarewriting.
Iwillsuggestratherthanlookingformorebooksandmorecontent,oneshouldbe
looking for base source, revise it again and again, but do value addition from
multiplesources.
There is No denying the fact that luck is something which is required to clear this
examination, specially with public Administration, fortunately it favored me this
time and I hope it favors everyone in this subject, so that lost glory of Public
administration is restored I am not a senior player of this arena, yet I guess that
monotonicityoftheanswersofourseniorsmayhavekilledthespiritofexaminers
to award us good marks, so lets change this pattern, do some value
additions/innovations on the base provided to us by our seniors and then pray to
god,ithasworkedfineforme,soIbelievethatitisnotawrongstrategyatleast,
youcantryitifyouwish.
This is the reason, My blog revolves mostly around examples, connecting links,
developingunderstandingandusingcasestudiesanywherewecanIhadfailedonly
onceinmylifeafternotgettinganIITandthatwasMains2014,Itoowasconfused
about the future of this optional and one of my friends Mantosh (@liverpool) did
market survey and told me just after mains result that only one guy in his public
administrationcirclecouldclearmainsandhesayshehadusedfewcasestudiesin
his answers, that was the tickle point for me and Since I was still in my basics of
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publicadministration,soItriedtomendthepathinthisdirectionanditborefruits
tome....almostsamethingIhavetriedtonarrateinthisawfullynarratedstoryof
thisidiot,Ijusthopeitworksforyoutoo.
Iwillnotsaywhetheryoushouldcontinuewiththisoptionalorleave,Iwilljustsay
ifyouhavethehearttostayinthisarenaandarewillingtobelieveinyouandyour
subject, your strengths and maybe willing to use all that I have put in here,
crackingCSEwiththissubjectisnotgoingtobeanimpossibletask,itisdifficultI
agreebutnotimpossible.
Believe yourself please...I would still have attemted CSE2016 with public
administration...evenifIhadscoredpoorlyinCSE2015.
All the best for your future endeavors... I hope I have cleared some doubts about
how I got 247 this year...I wish it could help as many fellow PubAd students as it
can, it is a blessing in disguise as unexpectedly it has put me at a zenith where
everyaspirantwantstoreach,regardinganswerwritingIhavecoveredindetailin
thesecondpostonsameURL.
Ifyouhaveanydoubt,youcanwritetomeat
tiwarivicky.1989@gmail.com
You can also view my answer writing strategy/ethics case study approach/essay
writingonyoutube,ifyouwish,bysearching:
Toppers'talkbyAshishTiwariAIR6onvisionIASplatform
Intheendmysincerestapologiesforbringingthisblogsolate..IunderstandthatI
had promised it by end of this month...but laziness and busy schedule on my part
had put me away from writing this blog...better late than never is the keyword I
guess....
Success is a matter of timing if you are dedicated to the path which will
takeyouthere.
AshishTiwari
Someofmyanswerscriptsareasbelow:
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SAISHETTY 15June2016at04:09
thanksalotsir..
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rama 16June2016at05:29
Really,it'sveryveryhelpful.Thanks
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rama 16June2016at05:29
Really,it'sveryveryhelpful.Thanks
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shelley 19June2016at07:31
"I have made a gist of all this and am attaching herewith, these were made from synergy
classnotesandabitofmodelanswersofvarioustestseries"..sirIcantfindtheGIST...canyou
givemethelink..thanksinadvance.
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AshishTiwari 20June2016at23:32
iwilluploadthattomorrow...
shelley 17July2016at20:00
thanksir..Stillwaitingforit..
shubham 29August2016at23:44
Sirshareyourgistifucantorefineourpaper1strategyforthosewhowillappearfor
thisyearmains
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Unknown 21June2016at18:49
Kindlyuploadanswerssur
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AshishTiwari 22July2016at23:24
I have uploaded them at the end of the blog...u will find a link to my answer
scripts..hopeithelps
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bloggrer 9July2016at01:07
bhaiyacanyoupleasesharesomeofyouranswers
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AshishTiwari 22July2016at23:25
I have uploaded them at the end of the blog...u will find a link to my answer
scripts..hopeithelps
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Unknown 29July2016at04:12
isisoneyearissufficientforIASprep.
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NancyVerma 29July2016at04:20
isisoneyearissufficientforIASprep.
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AyushKhare 19August2016at22:45
Thankyousirforalltheimportantinformationyouprovidedabove.
Sircanyousuggestmeonething,shouldIstartmypreparationduringUGcoursesorafterthat,
andifduringUG,theninwhichrespectiveyear.
RightnowIamin1yr.
AyushKhare
Chhatarpur(M.P.)
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AyushKhare 19August2016at22:47
Thankyousirforalltheimportantinformationyouprovidedabove.
Sircanyousuggestmeonething,shouldIstartmypreparationduringUGcoursesorafterthat,
andifduringUG,theninwhichrespectiveyear.
RightnowIamin1yr.
AyushKhare
Chhatarpur(M.P.)
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BISWADEEP 20September2016at12:33
anyone have m.laxmikant for pub ad ebook and arora and goyal indian public administration
ebookpdf..sendmethelink
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prasanthithecool 26September2016at04:22
Thankyouforyourtremendousinformation.MayyourpathwaycancreatemyDreamtobeanIAS
officermaycometrue.
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prasanthithecool 26September2016at04:22
Thankyouforyourtremendousinformation.MayyourpathwaycancreatemyDreamtobeanIAS
officermaycometrue.
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rajeev 5October2016at23:55
"Ihavemadeagistofallthis.."
PleaseuploadtheGist
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rajeev 6October2016at00:52
Inwhateverformatitis....whethergoodhandwritingorbad...Pleaseshareit,itwillbe
veryhelpful.
ThanksalotforyourvaluableGuidance
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