BPSC Exam 2025: Integrated 70th Combined Main (Written) Competitive Examination, Optional, Public Administration
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02/GO/CC/M-2025 – 25
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
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1. Which of the following is not correctly 3. The concept of administrative ethics or
matched ? code of ethics for public servants was
(A) National Direct Tax Academy –
Nagpur
(A) France
(B) National Academy of Administration
(B) Russia
– Mussoorie
(C) National Village Development Institute (C) Britain
– Hyderabad
(D) The United States
(D) National Institute of Financial
Management – Vadodara
4. Match List – I with List – II and select
2. The characteristic features of behavioral the correct answer using the code given
approach are below the lists.
1. It considers human beings basically
List – I List – II
lazy.
a. Top-down Theory 1. A. H. Maslow
2. It attempts to study human behaviour
in organisations rather than some b. Bottom-up Theory 2. F. W. Taylor
abstract principles.
c. Self-actualisation 3. Norbert
3. It lays more emphasis on what actually
Theory Weiner
happens rather than what should
happen. d. Cybernetic Theory 4. C. I. Barnard
Select the correct answer using the code Code :
given below : a b c d
Code : (A) 4 2 3 1
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 2 4 3 1
(B) 2 and 3
(C) 4 2 1 3
(C) 2 only
(D) 2 4 1 3
(D) 1 and 3
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5. Match List – I with List – II and select 7. With reference to the Public
the correct answer using the code given Administration in a welfare state, which
below the lists. of the following statements is /are correct ?
List – I List – II 1. The success of modern civilization
a. Masterman 1. Recruitment
Committee effective administration.
b. Assheton 2. Political 2. In the welfare state, the administration
Committee activities is found shadowed on the life of men
from birth to death.
c. Satish Chandra 3. Training
Select the correct answer from the code
d. Fulton Committee 4. Professionalism
given below :
Code : Code :
a b c d
(A) Only 1
(A) 2 3 4 1
(B) Neither 1 nor 2
(B) 3 2 4 1
(C) Both 1 and 2
(C) 3 2 1 4
(D) Only 2
(D) 2 3 1 4
8. “The district is the proper unit for
6. Which of the following controls is planning and development and the Zila
necessary to make administrative Parishad should become the principal
machinery function effectively ? body for management of all development
programmes which can be handled at
(A) Public control that level.” This recommendation was
made by
(B) Judicial control (A) G. V. K. Rao Committee
(B) Balwant Rai Mehta Committee
(C) External control
(C) Ashok Mehta Committee
(D) External and internal controls
(D) None of the above
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9. Who remarked, “There is not and never 11. Which one of the following statement is
correct ?
Collector anywhere else” ? (A) The local governments are sovereign
(A) K. K. Dass (B) The local governments are creations
of Central or State Governments
(B) A. D. Gorwala
(C) The local governments are
(C) E. N. Mangat Rai
self-created
(D) None of these
(D) None of the above
10. Match List – I with List – II and select
the correct answer using the code given 12. Match List – I with List – II and select the
below the lists. correct answer using the codes given
List – I List – II below the lists.
a. Future recruits 1. Short-term List – I List – II
for the service training a. Habeas Corpus 1. What warrant or
b. War time 2. Skill training authority
c. Teaching 3. Formal
complicated training made certain
system of law or
c. Certiorari 3. We command
procedure
d. Quo Warranto 4. Produce the body
d. Training carefully 4. Pre-entry
of a person
organised and training
Code :
conducted under
a b c d
expert guidance
Code : (A) 4 3 2 1
a b c d
(B) 2 3 1 4
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 1 4 3 2 (C) 3 4 2 1
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 1 2 3 4
(D) 1 3 2 4
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13. Which of the following pairs is/are 16. Which of the following administrative
correctly matched ? institutes in India, play the role of
1. The profession of government – mediators between the centre-state
B. Chapman relations ?
2. Development administration – (A) The Zonal Councils and the Control
La Palombara Board for river valley project
3. Bureaucracy and political (B) The regional electricity board and the
development – P. Appleby conferences
(C) All in (A) and (B) of the above
4. Decision making – F. W. Taylor
Select the correct answer using the code (D) None of the above
given below :
(A) 1 and 2 17. Match List – I with List – II and select
the correct answer using the code given
(B) 3 only
below the lists.
(C) 1 only List – I List – II
(D) 2 and 3 a. Formal 1. It is highly
communication personal
14. Which of the following is not a criticism
of hierarchy ? b. Informal 2. It is impersonal
(A) Creates superior-subordinate communication
relationship
c. Downward 3. To solve
(B) Proper channel of communication
communication interdepartmental
(C) Red-tapism
(D) Procedure through proper channel problems and
creates delay in work
means of direct
15. According to Lopez, which of the communication
following are the primary purposes of
performance evaluation ? d. Horizontal 4. Job instructions
1. Information communication
2. Control
Code :
3. Review
4. Motivation a b c d
Select the correct answer using the code
given below. (A) 2 1 4 3
Code : (B) 1 2 3 4
(A) 1, 2 and 3
(B) 3, 4 and 1 (C) 4 1 2 3
(C) 1, 4 and 2
(D) 3 4 1 2
(D) 2, 3 and 4
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18. Match List – I with List – II and select 20. ERG theory is associated with the
the correct answer from the code given
below the lists : name of
List – I List – II
(A) A. Maslow
(Names of (The related
the corporations years of the
(B) V. H. Vroom
in India) corporations)
a. Damodar Valley 1. 1934
(C) F. Herzberg
Corporation
b. Reserve Bank 2. 1948 (D) Alderfer
of India
c. Rehabilitation 3. 1953
Finance
Corporation 21. A major source of revenue assigned
d. Air India 4. 1948 to the Union under the scheme of
International
distribution of taxing powers is
Code :
a b c d (A) Excise duties on liquor, opium, India
(A) 2 1 4 3
hemp and other narcotic drugs
(B) 1 3 2 4
(C) 4 1 3 2 (B) Profession tax
(D) 3 2 1 4
(C) Corporation tax
19. Which of the following committees
(D) Sales tax
are helped by the CAG in his work of
exercising legislative control over the
executive ?
1. Public Account Committee 22. Which one of the following statements
2. Privileges Committee is not correct in respect of New Public
3. Estimates Committee Management ?
4. Committee on Public Undertakings
Select the correct answer using the code (A) It has market orientation
given below.
Code : (B) It focuses on performance appraisal
(A) 1 and 4
(B) 1, 3 and 4 (C) It advocates managerial autonomy
(C) 1, 2 and 3
(D) It upholds public interest
(D) 1, 2 and 4
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23. Consider the following Statements. 25.
“the ability of the various functional
Assertion (A) : Money Bill can be groups within an enterprise to
understand other and each other’s
introduced in the State Legislature with
functions and concerns” ?
the prior consent of the Governor.
(A) Peter Drucker
Reason (R) : The Governor is the
(B) C. I. Barnard
Executive head of the State.
(C) J. D. Millet
Of these Statements
(D) L. D. White
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is 26. The system of Dyarchy was introduced
the correct explanation of (A) by the British in India under the
(A) Government of India Act, 1909
(B) (A) is false but (R) is true (B) Government of India Act, 1892
(C) Government of India Act, 1919
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false
(D) Government of India Act, 1935
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is 27. Match List – I with List – II and select
not the correct explanation of (A) the correct answer using the code given
below the lists.
List – I List – II
24. Which one of the following statement is a. Fundamental 1. Germany
correct ? Rights
b. Directive 2. The U.S.A.
(A) The local government institutions
Principles of State
propose taxes to the State Policy
Government c. Emergency 3. The U.K.
Powers
(B) The local government institutions
d. Rule of Law 4. Ireland
can levy taxes Code :
(C) The local government institutions can a b c d
levy taxes with the prior approval of (A) 4 2 3 1
the State Government
(B) 2 4 3 1
(D) The local government institutions
(C) 4 2 1 3
cannot levy taxes
(D) 2 4 1 3
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28. 31. Which of the following is/are correct
about the scope of judicial review ?
coined in the year
1. Authority derived from a statute of the
(A) 1812 Parliament may be challenged on the
(B) 1904 ground that the Act of Parliament itself
is unconstitutional
(C) 1815 2. Delegated legislation can be
(D) 1897 challenged on the ground of legality
3. Sanctity of the Fundamental Rights is
violated by the administration
29. Match List – I with List – II and select
Select the correct answer using the
the correct answer using the code given
codes given below.
below the lists.
Code :
List – I List – II
(A) 1 only
(Bases of authority) (Category
(B) 1, 2 and 3
of authority)
a. Finance code 1. Functional (C) 2 and 3
and budget manual authority (D) 1 and 2
b. Job characteristics 2. Authority of
legitimacy
32. The following questions consist of two
c. Personal 3. Authority of statements, one labelled as Assertion (A)
characteristics position and the other labelled as Reason (R).
d. Professional 4. Charismatic Examine the two statements carefully
competence authority and select the correct answer using the
code given below.
Code :
a b c d Assertion (A) : According to
J. D. Mooney “Organisation is the form
(A) 3 1 4 2 of every human association for the
(B) 2 3 1 4 attainment of a common purpose”.
(C) 2 3 4 1 Reason (R) : For L. D. White
“Organisation is the arrangement
(D) 3 2 1 4
of personnel for facilitating the
accomplishment of some agreed
30. The President’s power to issue purpose through allocation of functions
and responsibilities”.
ordinance is given in the
Code :
(A) Article 123 (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Article 226 (B) (A) is false but (R) is true
(C) Article 126 (C) (A) is true but (R) is false
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is
(D) Article 125 not the correct explanation of (A)
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33. 36. Which of the following features are
of positions on basis of the similarities correct about human relations theory ?
who argued this ? 1. It rejected formal institutions.
(A) L. D. White
2. It challenged the concept of
economic man.
(C) Marshall E. Dimock
(D) M. Mendell 3. It neglected technical structure of
the organisation.
34. The concept of neutrality of civil service
was developed in 4. It held the view that men are not
(A) Japan isolated creatures.
(B) United States
(C) France Code :
(D) Britain
(A) 1, 2 and 4
35. Match List – I with List – II and select the (B) 2, 3 and 4
correct answer using the codes given
below the lists. (C) 1, 2, 3 and 4
List – I List – II
a. Organised as a 1. Public (D) 1, 2 and 3
major-sub-division Corporation
of a department
of Govt. 37. F. W. Taylor, the founding father of
b. Represents a 2. Control Board
combination of
Government propounded the theory which was
ownership and
business
methodology of
management
c. The Articles of 3. Departmental (A) Generalization
Association are undertaking
drawn by the (B) Careful observation
Government and
can be revised (C) Measurement
by it
d. Devised for 4. Government (D) All of the above
multipurpose Company
projects
Code : 38. Human relations theory of organization
a b c d was developed by
(A) 4 1 3 2 (A) Elton Mayo
(B) 4 2 3 1 (B) Chester I. Barnard
(C) 3 2 4 1 (C) Both the above
(D) 3 1 4 2 (D) None of these
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39. Match List – I with List – II and select 41. Need for co-ordination arises to
the correct answer from the code given
below the lists : (A) Curb the growing tendency towards
List – I List – II
empire-building or greed for power
(Kinds of (Country’s name for
Bureaucracy) the example of the prevalent in the different units of
bureaucracy) agency
a. Caste 1. Spoil system of
bureaucracy America
b. Guardian 2. Chinese civil
in the work of the employees and units
bureaucracy services before
960 A.D. of an organisation
c. Patronage 3. British peerage
bureaucracy system (C) Prevent or discourage too much
d. Merit 4. Indian civil concentration on one aspect of work
bureaucracy services
to the exclusion of the other aspect
Code :
a b c d (D) All of the above
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 3 4 1 2
42.
(C) 4 1 2 3
an audit of public accounts in order to
(D) 2 3 1 4
ascertain whether the behests of
Parliament were complied with or not ?
40. Who points out three glaring defects of
Indian bureaucracy – procrastination,
(A) The U.K.
yesmanship and corruption ?
(A) Paul H. Appleby (B) France
(B) L. D. White
(C) India
(C) Seckler-Hudson
(D) A. D. Gorwala (D) The U.S.A.
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43. 46. In which year was the Indian Civil
Administrative theory can be felt in Service Act passed ?
(A) Brownlow Committee Report (1937) (A) 1861
(B) 1888
(1919)
(C) 1857
(C) Report of the Second Hoover
Commission (1955) (D) 1858
(D) All of the above
47. Match List – I with List – II and select
the correct answer using the code given
44. Who has given a profound description on below the lists.
administrative responsibility in his book
List – I List – II
‘Policy and Administration’ ?
(Authority (Administrative
(A) L. D. White
systems) systems)
(B) Paul H. Appleby a. Charismatic 1. Administration
(C) J. D. Millet authority by faithful
followers
(D) None of these
b. Legal-rational 2. Administration
authority by bureaucrats
45. Who of the following is of the view
that “we are no longer confronted with c. Traditional 3. Administration
several administrative sciences but with authority by relatives
one which can be applied equally well to Code :
public and private administrative affairs” ?
a b c
(A) Lawell
(A) 3 2 1
(B) Henry Fayol (B) 2 3 1
(C) L. Urwick (C) 1 3 2
(D) None of the above (D) 1 2 3
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48. Parliament exercises control over public 51. The following questions consist of two
expenditure through the statements, one labelled as Assertion (A)
and the other labelled as Reason (R).
(A) Finance Minister Examine the two statements carefully
and select the correct answer using the
(B) Commerce Minister
code given below.
(C) Advocate-General
Assertion (A) : Supervision is a
process by which workers are helped
(D) Comptroller and Auditor-General
by a designated staff member to learn
according to their needs to make the
49. Who said, “If our civilization fails, it will
best use of their knowledge and skills
mainly be because of a breakdown of and to improve their abilities so that they
administration” ? do their jobs more effectively and with
increasing satisfaction to themselves and
(A) L. D. White
the agency.
(B) M. E. Dimock
Reason (R) : Qualities of a supervisor
(C) W. B. Donham are inherent and they cannot be
developed by training.
(D) F. A. Nigro
Code :
50. Valence expectancy theory, an
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
alternative theory of motivation was the correct explanation of (A)
proposed by
(B) (A) is false but (R) is true
(A) D. McGregor
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false
(B) Victor H. Vroom
(C) Chris Argyris (D) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is
not the correct explanation of (A)
(D) A. H. Maslow
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52. Match List – I with List – II and select the 54. The classical theory of administration is
correct answer using the codes given also known as the
below the lists.
(A) Historical theory
List – I List – II
(Country) (System) (B) Human relations theory
a. India 1. Spoils System (C) Locational theory
b. United States 2. Equal opportunity (D) Mechanistic theory
for all
c. Britain 3. Rudimentary Civil 55. Match List – I with List – II and select
the correct answer using the code given
Services
below the lists.
d. Ancient China 4. Patronage List – I List – II
System
a. Justice tempered 1. Unity of
Code : with kindness command
b. Wages and 2. Equity
a b c d
salaries should
(A) 3 1 4 2 be fair and should
be adjusted to
(B) 1 2 3 4
circumstances
(C) 2 1 4 3 and the value of
the employee
(D) 2 4 3 1
c. Orders from one 3. Order
53. Which of the following statements is/are superior only
true ?
d. Right man in 4. Remuneration
the right place
Management School, administration
is separate from politics Code :
a b c d
administration as a mechanical (A) 2 4 1 3
organisation (B) 2 4 3 1
(C) Both the above (C) 4 3 1 2
(D) 1 4 3 2
(D) None of the above
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56. Regarding motivation of the members of 58. Indian Audit and Accounts Department
an organisation, Chester I. Barnard said was created in the year
1. Economic rewards are not the main (A) 1853
motivators. (B) 1953
(C) 1653
2. A rigid organisational structure is by
itself a motivating factor. (D) 1753
59. Match List – I with List – II and select
companionship and support are the correct answer using the code given
below the lists.
Select the correct answer using the code List – I List – II
given below :
Code : a. Behavioural 1. Descriptive
(A) 1 only b. Systems 2. Evolutionary
c. Historical 3. Interactional
(B) 2 and 3
(C) 1 and 2
Code :
(D) 1 and 3 a b c d
(A) 4 3 2 1
57. Consider the following controls. (B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 3 4 2 1
1. Political executive issues directives
(D) 4 3 1 2
2. Secretary of a department can take 60. Match List – I with List – II and select
important decision single-handedly the correct answer using the code given
below the lists.
3. Political executive can reduce the List – I List – II
secretary to a cipher a. Voting on the 1. Prior consent
demands for grants of President
b. Budget 2. Not subject
or department
to vote of
Which of the above are correct about Parliament
the political control exercised by the c. Money Bill 3. An instrument
executive ? of socio-
economic
Code : change
d. Charged 4. Enactment of
(A) 1, 2, 4 Expenditure Budget
Code :
(B) 1, 2, 3, 4 a b c d
(A) 4 3 1 2
(C) 2, 3, 4 (B) 1 4 3 2
(C) 1 3 4 2
(D) 1, 3, 4 (D) 3 4 2 1
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61. According to Fred W. Riggs, the 64. The cardinal principle of the
comparative public administration
parliamentary system is the responsibility
approach stands for a distinctive
orientation. Which one of the following is of the executive to the Legislature which
typical of that approach ?
implies :
(A) Behavioral approach
(B) Logical approach
1. That it is the Minister who shoulders
(C) Ecological approach and empirical
approach the responsibility for the administrative
(D) Public policy approach acts of his department
62. The main determinants of the degree of
span of control are a Committee of Parliament
1. Nature of work
2. Leadership
3. Age of agency by a Committee of Parliament and
4. Location of the organisational units
he can be obliged to answer personal
Code :
criticism
(A) 1 and 2
(B) All the four
(C) 4 and 1
(D) 2 and 3 by a Committee of Parliament but he
cannot be obliged to answer personal
63. Which of the following scholar(s) is/are criticism
connected with the administrative school
of management ?
Code :
1. Elton Mayo
2. A. C. Reiley
3. Chris Argyris (A) 1 and 4
4. Abraham Maslow
Select the correct answer using the code
given below : (B) 4 only
Code :
(A) 1 and 2
(C) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(B) 3 and 4
(C) 1 and 3
(D) 1 only (D) 1 and 3
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65. Which of the following is a drawback in 67. Which of the following indirect taxes
Max Weber’s bureaucratic model ? makes the greatest contribution to
general revenue ?
(A) Lack of legal-rational principles
(A) Corporation taxes
(B) Lack of theoretically integrated total (B) Union Excise duties
system of action (C) Customs duty
(C) Lack of normative factors as guiding (D) Income tax
action
68. In which article it has been dealt that is
(D) Lack of rule of law upon the functioning shall be the duty of the Union and the
of bureaucratic organisation State Public Service Commissions to
conduct examinations for appointments
to the service of the Union and the
66. Match List – I with List – II and select
services of the State respectively ?
the correct answer using the code given
below the lists : (A) Article 320
List – I List – II (B) Article 330
a. Budget is a plan 1. Rene (C) Article 321
Stown (D) Article 325
69. Match List – I with List – II and select
year the correct answer using the code given
b. Budget is a 2. Marshall E. below the lists.
List – I List – II
the Government (Leadership) (Theory)
c. Budget is a 3. F. W. Taylor a. Personal qualities 1. Trait theory
document about b. Situation in which 2. Systems
public revenue a leader works theory
and expenditure c. Participation of 3. Theory Y
d. Budget summarises 4. James subordinates in
goal setting
experience of the
past and projects d. Role of leader, 4. Situational
for the future situation, followers theory
and environment
Code :
a b c d Code :
(A) 3 1 2 4 a b c d
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 4 3 1 2
(B) 2 3 4 1
(C) 1 2 3 4
(C) 3 4 1 2
(D) 2 3 4 1 (D) 1 4 3 2
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70. Match List – I with List – II and select 71. Match List – I with List – II and select
the correct answer using the code given the correct answer using the code given
below the lists. below the lists.
List – I List – II
List – I List – II
a. Distinction between 1. Herbert
a. Northcote- 1. Organisation
obedience and Simon
Trevelyn Report of permanent
acceptance
civil service
b. Distinction between 2. Chester
b. The Pendleton 2. Introducing ‘economic man’ and Barnard
Act merit system ‘administrative man’
c. Distinction between 3. F. W. Taylor
c. Hoover 3. Civil service
‘charismatic’,
Commission examination
‘traditional’ and
Report reform
‘legal-rational
d. Satish Chandra 4. Political authority’
Committee activities of d. Distinction between 4. Max Weber
Report civil servants ‘principles’ and
Code : ‘mechanics of
management’
a b c d Code :
a b c d
(A) 1 4 2 3
(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 1 4 3 2
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 1 2 4 3
(C) 1 3 4 2
(D) 2 3 4 1 (D) 2 3 4 1
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72. 75. Theory Y organisations do not apply
1. To simplify procedures which one of the following features ?
2. To save materials
(A) Low productivity
3. To improve organisation
(B) Team goals are parallel to
4. To speed operations
organisational goals
Code :
(A) 1, 3 and 4 (C) Work is inherently satisfying
(B) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(D) Cohesive work teams
(C) 2, 3, 4
(D) 1, 2 and 4
73. Local government is concerned with 76.
(A) Developmental functions only
(B) Functions which are delegated to it of the past stating a current plan and
by the Centre only
(C) Management of affairs of the people time in future.” ?
of local areas
(D) Both (A) and (C) (A) L. D. White
74. What are methods of supervision ? (B) C. I. Barnard
1. Prior approval of individual project.
(C) G. R. Terry
2. Promulgation of service standard.
(D) Marshall Dimock
3. Budgetary limitation upon the
magnitude of operations.
4. Approval of key-subordinate 77. Who wrote the book The Human side of
personnel. the Enterprise ?
Code : (A) Herbert Simon
(A) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(B) Chris Argyris
(B) 1, 2 and 3
(C) Douglas McGregor
(C) 1 and 2
(D) None of these (D) Chester I. Barnard
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78. The Government of India Audit and 80. What is meant by Executive control of
Public Administration ?
Accounts Order was passed in the year
(A) 1935 (A) It refers to control over administration
through policy-making by the
(B) 1952
Ministers, by budgetary control and
(C) 1937 by recruitment by an independent
(D) 1936 authority
(B) It means control over administration
79. Consider the following statements. by the Chief Executive or the Council
of Ministers in a Parliamentary type of
Assertion (A) : Elton May’s
Government
recommendations are immensely useful
not only in the industrial sector but also (C) The Minister incharge of a department
controls the administration of the
in the administrative system of a state.
department
Reason (R) : Human beings in all kinds
(D) All of the above
of organisations have some common
social needs, feelings, attitudes and 81. Regarding the composition of a
Municipal Corporation which of the
desires of these statements.
following statements is/are true ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is (A) Every Corporation also has a political
executive who is known as a Mayor
the correct explanation of (A) (B) A Municipal Corporation consists of
Councilor and Aldermen who exercise
(B) (A) is false but (R) is true deliberative functions
(C) The executive functions are
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false performed by a Commissioner
who is appointed by the State
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is Government and enjoys
independent statutory authority
not the correct explanation of (A) (D) All of the above
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82. The classical theory of organisation 84. The scheme of ‘Joint Consultative
is known as the mechanistic theory Machinery and Compulsory Arbitration’
because
came into existence in India mainly on
(A) It treats organisation as a closed
the basis of the recommendations of
system
which of the following ?
(B) It underestimates human factors and
(A) The Fourth pay commission
(C) It establishes a formally declared
pattern of relationship (B) The Second pay Commission
(D) It does not explain the dynamics of (C) The Third pay Commission
organisational behaviour
(D) None of the above
83. Match List – I with List – II and select
85. Which of the following statement
the correct answer using the code given
are true with regard to the Regulatory
below the lists.
Commission ?
List – I List – II
1. They violate the concept of separation
a. Motivation-Hygiene 1. Chris Argyris of powers.
theory 2. This system is very expensive and
b. Theory X 2. D. McGregor results in duplication of work.
c. Immaturity-Maturity 3. George C. 3. Co-ordination becomes a
theory Homan serious problem in this type of
administration.
d. Human group 4. F. Herzberg
Select the correct answer using the
Code : codes given below.
a b c d Code :
(A) 2 1 3 4 (A) 2 only
(B) 1 4 2 3 (B) 1, 2 and 3
(C) 3 1 4 2 (C) 1 and 3
(D) 4 2 1 3 (D) 1 and 2
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86. Which of the following is an exception of 88. Match List – I with List – II and select
the correct answer using the code given
the categories of the administrators ?
below the lists.
(A) Social administrators List – I List – II
(Concept) (Contributor)
(B) Intellectual administrators
(C) Moral administrators organisation
(D) None of the above b. Urwick and 2. Dynamic
Metcalf administration
c. D. Waldo 3. The study of public
87. Match List – I with List – II and select administration
the correct answer using the code given d. Grapevine 4. M. Weber
below the lists. Code :
a b c d
List – I List – II
(A) 1 2 3 4
a. Santhanam 1. Recruitment
(B) 4 1 2 3
Committee policy and
(C) 3 4 1 2
selection methods
(D) 2 3 4 1
b. Mudaliyar 2. Reorganisation of
the British Civil 89. Which of the following are duties of a civil
Service servant ?
c. Kothari 3. Prevention of 1. Collecting taxes
Committee corruption 2. Selling postage stamps
d. Fulcan 4. Public services 3. Carrying out social services
4. Advising Ministers on all matters of
policy
recruitment
Select the correct answer using the
Code : codes given below :
a b c d Code :
(A) 2 3 1 4 (A) 1 and 2
(B) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(C) 3 4 1 2
(C) 1, 3 and 4
(D) 1 4 3 2
(D) 1 and 4
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90. Who of the following called the line 93. Match List – I with List – II and select
agency as ‘The House Keeping Activity’ ? the correct answer using the code given
below the lists.
(A) H. Finer
List – I List – II
(B) Charls Worth a. Legislative control 1. Adjournment
(C) W. F. Willoughby motion
b. Executive control 2. Habeas-
(D) None of the above corpus
c. Judicial control 3. Civil Service
code
91. The recommendations of Balwant Rai
Code :
Mehta Committee came into effect in
a b c
(A) June 1957 (A) 1 2 3
(B) 3 2 1
(B) November 1958 (C) 2 1 3
(D) 1 3 2
(C) June 1958 94. Match List – I with List – II and select
the correct answer using the code given
(D) April 1958 below the lists.
List – I List – II
92. Match List – I with List – II and select a. Speaker 1. Fixes the time
the correct answer using the code given limit for
discussion of
below the lists. demands
List – I List – II b. Finance 2. Examines the
a. Money bill 1. Enactment of
operation of
Budget the executive
b. Budget 2. Not subject to c. President 3. Makes
mention in
vote in the Parliament
Parliament about the
c. Charged 3. Prior consent annual
expenditure of the President statement
d. Voting on the 4. An instrument of d. C and AG 4. Participates
demands for socioeconomic in the
formulation
grants change of Five Year
Code : Plan
Code :
a b c d
a b c d
(A) 2 3 4 1 (A) 1 4 3 2
(B) 3 4 2 1 (B) 4 1 3 2
(C) 1 4 2 3 (C) 1 4 2 3
(D) 1 2 3 4 (D) 4 1 2 3
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95. Which of the following are the causes 97. In India, the enactment of the budget in
of the need of the disciplinary action the Parliament goes through following
according to L. D. White ?
1. General discussion
(A) Lack of performance of duty and 2. Voting of demands
efficiency besides the violation of 3. Introduction
4. Finance bill
order or rules only
5. Appropriation bill
(B) Lack of loyalty, morality and impartiality Arrange the above in a sequential order.
besides bribery, drug addiction and Code :
corruption only (A) 3, 2, 1, 4, 5
(B) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
(C) All of the above
(C) 3, 1, 2, 4, 5
(D) None of the above (D) 3, 1, 2, 5, 4
98. The Federal Public Service Commission
96. If inter-relating the sub-divisions of work was replaced by the Union Public
is a principle to be followed in designing Service Commission in the year
an organization, how can the harmonious (A) 1949
functioning of the different sub-units be (B) 1952
secured ? (C) 1948
(D) 1950
1. By ensuring the dominance of an
idea. 99. Municipal administration in the three
presidency towns of Bombay, Madras
2. By supervising their operations and Calcutta were established under the
meticulously. (A) Municipal Corporation Act, 1726
(B) Charter Act of 1835
3. By observing events that create (C) Municipal Corporation Act, 1793
(D) Charter Act of 1793
100. Which one of the following statements is
and disagreements. not correct ?
Choose the correct answer from the (A) The business of the Cabinet Secretary
is to help the Ministers and not to
code given below : oversee them
(B) The Cabinet Secretary advises the
(A) 1 and 2
civil servants informally on many
matters of administration
(B) 1 and 4
(C) The Cabinet Secretary is a watch
(C) 3 and 4 dog on behalf of the Prime Minister
(D) The Cabinet Secretary helps the
(D) 2 and 3 Cabinet by rendering advice on
matters of administration
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