Bureaucracy and Development Administration

Bureaucracy as a social and administrative institution has been at the centre of attention in capitalist, socialist as well as the developing countries. The consequences of bureaucratization in the three worlds are, however, significantly different. The dilemma of the developing countries is especially severe. In the absence of alternative instruments of implementation of the programmes of social and economic change, the state has increasingly depended upon the bureaucracy as its principal machinery.

Theoretically as well as policywise, the important question is: to what extent is the bureaucracy a viable instrument for implementation of development administration. Basically, are the values of bureaucracy and development administration congruent or is there any incompatibility between the two. And if there is, what are the options.

The present study examines these issues through empirical investigation and arrives at a set of new propositions. These deserve the attention of scholars and practitioners of public administration with a view to developing policy alternatives and options. All the more so as India is embarking upon new and more ambitious and complex plans and programmes of development with special emphasis on rural areas,

Authors

DR V A PAl PANANDIKER was educated at the Universities of Poona, Bombay and Michigan. He worked for several years in the Government of India in the Planning Commission Administrative Reforms Commission and Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. He has also been a Senior Fellow and Member of the Indian Council of Social Science Research and was the Founder President of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He is Member of the Governing Board of several academic institutions Director of the State Bank of India and author of several books and professional articles in public administration.

DR S S KSHIRSAGAR was educated at. The Universities of Bombay, Michigan and Delhi. After a period in private sector, he worked in the Indian Institute of Public Administration before joining the National Institute of Bank Management, Bombay, where he is currently Associate Professor. Prof Kshirsagar has worked on a large number of banking problems and has been a consultant to nationalised banks. He is the author of several professional articles in public administration and banking. Bureaucracy and Development Administration