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Exam Year:
2018
What is meant by public interest? What are the principles and procedures to be followed by the civil servants in public interest?
The Right to Information Act is not all about citizens’ empowerment alone, it essentially redefines the concept of accountability. Discuss.
What is meant by conflict of interest? Illustrate with examples, the difference between the actual and potential conflicts of interest.
Distinguish between “Code of ethics” and “Code of conduct” with suitable examples.
Explain the process of resolving ethical dilemmas in Public Administration.
State the three basic values, universal in nature, in the context of civil services and bring out their importance.
In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they do not have the first, the other two will you. – Warren Buffett. What do you understand by this statement in the present-day scenario? Explain.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. -Mahatma Gandhi
The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it has any evil in it; but whether it has more evil than good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseprarable compound of the two; so that our best judgement of the preponderance between them is continually demand. – Abraham Lincoln.
In doing a good thing, everything is permitted which is not prohibited expressly or by clear implication. Examine the statement with suitable examples in the context of a public servant discharging his/her duties.