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VOL. 27, NO. 29, March 28, 2008 (Chaitra 15 2064 B.S.)
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Public Administration
At a time when there is lack of book for the students of master's level of Public Administration, Tulsi Narayan Shrestha comes out with a solution
By A CORRESPONDENT
Public administration plays crucial role in development activities as well as in the maintenance of stability and order. This is the reason teaching of public administration is pre-requisite to prepare the man power for the country.
Public Administration
By: Tulsi Narayan Shrestha
Published by: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Price: Rs.295.00
Pages: 342 |
Till a few years ago, the public administration was just a part of the book on political science of master level at Tribhuwan University. As political science is also, in one way or the other, related to the management and administration, the decision to include separate paper on public administration in its syllabus of master level political science program was very significant.
Despite introducing separate paper on public administration, the students had difficulty to find a book based on their curriculum, which can contribute to enhance their capability on the public administration education.
Having long experience of teaching public administration at the University, Tulsi Narayan Shrestha felt that the students needed a book which can cover their whole curriculum of public administration at master's level.
Written as per the content of public administration syllabus, this book intends to cater to the needs of the post-graduate students of political science studying in Tribhuwan University.
Divided into six parts, part I deals with the introduction to public administration and its current issues. Part II focuses on organization and its model and part III discusses various dimensions of personnel, development and regulatory administrative system. Leadership, Public and public administration and budgetary process are analyzed in Part IV. Developments of Nepal's administration, its ecological perspective and administrative reforms have been detailed in part V.
The last part deals with local governance and decentralization. On the whole , this text discusses various issues and aspects of Public Administration and is expected to be useful and helpful not only to the post-graduate students of political science studying in Tribhuwan University but also to the general readers interested to the discipline of Public Administration.
Having written a number of books on Nepalese administration, decentralization and local governance, Shrestha, a PhD in Public Administration, is a well known scholar of public administration.
"Administration is a very strategic resource in the process of development simply because the ultimate outcome of the entire development depends upon its efficiency and effectiveness. Thus, administration plays a key role in the socio-economic development civilities aimed at improving the quality of life of the people," said author Shrestha. "Taking into consideration of the inadequacy of the text books on such revised Public Administration paper of Master Level Political Science, I have made a modest attempt to preserve this volume."
From basic concept of public administration to the changing role of administration in the context of globalization, liberal market economy, Shretha also discusses organization and models as well as theories and approaches.
Not only the present trends of public administration, he has also dealt with the historical evolution of public administration in Nepal.
