This text book on Public Administration aimed for the ‘Public Administration : Theory and Practice’ paper of BA Hons of University of Delhi - specifically written for the paper ‘Theories of administration’ [Paper 10, Semester III] and also aims for the Paper ‘Public Policy and Administration in India’ paper 14 Semester 4.

This book discusses Introduction of public administration; Meaning, nature and development; New perspectives of public administration; Development of administration in India; Development administration; Administrative theory; Organization and Methods; Structure of an organization; Public policy; Personnel administration; Bureaucracy in India;Financial administration; Financial administration in India; Citizen and administration; Public participation in administration; Welfare administration; decentralization; Urban local governance; Administrative reform and changing nature of governance in India.
Included in the book are updates as of 2015 on the public administration in India.

The book is appended with bibliography and index.

Dr Blawan Gautam is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Ramanujan [Desh Bandhu Gupta College] College, University of Delhi. He is currently Fellow of Political Science at Delhi University’s Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL), University of Delhi. The publications to his credit are: Cooperatives and Rural Development in India; Tulnatmak Rajnitik Siddhaant ke Sandharbh; Rajnitk Siddhant : Avdhaarnayen evm Vimarsh; etc.