Indian Institute Of Public Administration Iipa Journal

Law, public policy, Governance are separate subjects which cannot help public Administration to growing as a separate independent Discipline in Jammu and Kashmir. As an independent discipline public Administration should be realised separately ‘not with any other discipline. Sadly public Administration still faces the crisis in Jammu and Kashmir from the day it was introduced, because as an independent discipline it has still not emerged, although Central University of Jammu (2011) and Central University of Kashmir (2009) offers integrated course on public administration with public policy, law and governance. Ever evolving as an independent subject across India, nearly 50 universities, hundreds of colleges and a number of training institutes are engaged in teaching and research on public administration in India. This initiative by UPSC gave a powerful Impetus to the subject.

In late 1990s with the growing craze of civil services examination in India, the Union public service commission introduced public administration as a fully independent subject in civil service examination. IIPA was to be the nucleus of administrative research and to disseminate the knowledge of public administration through its journal ‘Indian Journal of public Administration (IJPA). In 1954 to fulfill the objective of a growing Public Administration as a separate discipline in social sciences’ the Govt of India established Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) at New Delhi on the recommendation of Paul H Appleby Report on Public Administration in India.

In 1949, Nagpur University became the first in India to establish separate full-fledged Department of Public Administration and local self government under chairmanship of Dr M P Sharma. In 1930, Lucknow University became first in India to offer full compulsory paper on public Administration in MA political Science syllabus. Since foundation, the subject of public Administration gained popularity across India. As an evolving independent discipline in India, public Administration evolved internationally with efforts of Woodrow Wilson (Popularly known as Father of public Administration) in 1887 with the publication of essay ‘The study of Administration’ in political science quarterly.

Indian Institute Of Public Administration Iipa Journal