Materials related to public administration and the civil services. The file contains 'Parkinson's Law' and other articles by C. Northcote Parkinson relating to the bureaucracy, retirement and management published in The Economist. Also includes K. Santhanam's newspaper clippings from Hindustan Times, Swarajya Weekly, and Mail on the bureaucracy in democratic India, the Pay Commission, Government employee salaries and public sector strikes, the responsibilities of administrators in democratic India, the All-India Services, The Committee on Administrative Reforms headed by Morarji Desai and typed notes for the commission (17-71-1966). There are also writings on the Indian administration, including 'Central Government Servants' (Hindu 7-7-1960) and 'Follow Up Measures' enclosed in a letter from V.K. Narasimhan of The Indian Express (31-10-1968).
Public Administration; Civil Services; Parkinson's Law; C. Northcote Parkinson; Bureaucracy; Retirement; Management; The Economist; Democratic India; Pay Commission; government employees; salary; Central Government Servants; Public Sector Strikes; All-India Services; The Committee on Administrative Reform; Morarji Desai; V.K Narasimhan; Indian Express; Hindustan Times; Hindu; Swarajya Weekly; The Mail
The file contains papers relating to the Panchayati Raj system in India. Includes articles on Panchayats and mobilization during the Sino-Indian war [1962] the role of Panchayats in economic and national development, the relationship between Panchayati Raj institutions, Co-operative movement and the Revenue Department. There are also the articles 'Self Government and Social Change' published in Kurukshetra: An Open Forum on Community Development Vol. 14 No. 1 (1965) and 'Planning from Below- Problems and Prospects', an offprint from Panchyati Raj, Planning and Democracy, edited by M.V. Mathur and Iqbal Narain (undated).
