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Hello Readers. Following post is contributed by a good friend Shreyas Nayak. He is Electronics and Communication graduate from RVIT, Bengaluru and now preparing for Civil Services (UPSC) with Public Administration as his optional subject. In this post, we have analysed the COVID situation and its impact on Administration. The post is divided into three broad titles:  Part I: Impact of COVID19 on Public Administration Part II: Impact of COVID19 on Indian Public Administration Part III: Critical analysis of the relationship between COVID19 and Policy Making Part I: Impact of COVID19 on Public Administration Public administration is considered as a socially embedded process of relationship, dialogue and action to promote human flourishing for all. The Field of Public Administration straddles an academic component and an action/practice component, with each one significantly influencing the other; both seeking to promote the welfare of the people in the context o...

The only good thing to happen in my last UPSC Attempt (2016) was my Public Administration score. This blog post is about how I scored 302 ( Paper I = 158 and Paper II = 144 ) Marks in Public Administration, in Mains-2016. Please note that there is no short cut for scoring high in any subject. You have to READ a lot many things and refer a lot of stuff. But the thing is you need not read all these resources from the first to the last page. Your Score will depend more upon how effectively you write the answer, which we will cover in the latter part of this post. Resources After reading the list given below, I know few readers will be like “Ye toh pata hai, naya kuch nahi padha kya??” but believe me, you should do “naya” (try innovative and out-of-box thinking!) in answers, not in resource selection. 1.         IGNOU Books – BA and MA Please download all the PDFs of IGNOU Public Administration books. They are available on Mrunal’s websit...