MBA Semester –3 Paper 5: Public System Management SYLLABUS

MBA Semester –3  Paper 5: Public System Management SYLLABUS

Public System Management

SECTION A

Unit I: Introduction - Understanding the state of the economy, Government & public welfare, Concept of

Public Goods & services, Concept of Public System, Role of Government in Public System, Types of

Public system, Weaknesses & Issues of the Public System in India.

Unit II: Public Enterprise Management - Objectives and Roles of Public Enterprise, Organizational

Forms and Working of the Board of Management, Public Enterprise Policy and Reform Measures,

Marketing Problems of Public Enterprises; Cases: Western Coalfields Limited (WCL), MECL, MOIL and

MSEB etc.

Unit III: Energy Management - Organisation for Energy Management: Goal setting in Energy

Management; Energy crisis, energy use Patterns and scope for Conservation; Energy Audit, Energy

Pricing; Non conventional sources of energy; Utilization of solar energy; Biomass as a source of energy;

The option of Nuclear energy in the developing countries; Case: Suzlon.

Unit IV: Water Resource Management - Objectives and organization of water resource Management;

Optimization techniques for water resources projects; Scientific utilization of Agriculture water; irrigation

projects; Water crisis management flood and droughts; Water harvesting; Problem relating to supply and

timely use of water in cities and towns. Cases: Jalswaraj by Govt. of India, Sardar Sarovar, Bhakra

Nangal and Maharashtra Jivan Pradhikaran.

Unit V: Management of Education System - Education as Development Priority; Education and

Economic growth; International Comparisons; Strategies of Development of Education System; Concept

of Investment in Man; Systems of Education in India: Formal, informal, Primary, Secondary and Higher

Education; Cases: Ivy League, Yale, IIT’s and IIM’s.

SECTION B

Unit VI: Management of Telecommunication systems - Role of Telecommunication; Effects of

technology and scale on cost of service, Organization, management and financing in Telecommunication;

Mobilizing resources for expansion, Impact of Telecommunications on rural development, Cases: BEL, C-

DOT, DoT, BSNL and Telecom Commission.

Unit VII: Health Systems Management - System analysis and system dynamics in health care; Health

system: Characteristics, Planning methodologies, Goals and functions; Strategic management in health

care; Quantitative foundations of health services management; Case: NHS (UK).

Unit VIII: Public Infrastructure Management-1 – Definition; Local, Regional, State and Federal Agencies

responsible for infrastructure development and their role in Regional Planning Process; The role of Civic

Organizations and Private Sector; Overview of the Infrastructure Management Process.

Unit IX: Public Infrastructure Management-2 - Organizational Studies and Infrastructure Developments

from Road Transport, Railways, Power, Airports and Shipping Ports like PWD, MSRDC, Central

Railway, DLF, GMR, GVK, TATA Energy and Reliance Energy etc; Profile Study: RC Sinha (Mumbai-

Pune Expressway), T. Chandrashekhar (Administrative Reforms), S. Sreedharan (Konkan Railway),

Vilasrao Salunkhe (Pani Panchayat) and MS Swaminathan (Gender Divide) etc

Unit X: Emerging Trends - Privatization, Public Private Partnership (PPP) - concept, Role of PPP in

development of Public systems, Strengths & weaknesses of privatization & PPP; PPP Agreements in

India; Infrastructure scenario in Nagpur: SEZ, MIHAN, MADC, NIT, NMC (SETU), MRSAC

(Maharashtra Remote Sensing Application Center) etc.

Suggested Readings

1.

“Ideas that have Worked” by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grivances, 2004, Penguin / Viking,

New Delhi

2.

"Infrastructure Management: Design, Construction, Maintenance, Rehabilitation, Renovation." Hudson, Haas, and

Uddin, McGraw-Hill, 1997

3.

Bureau of Public Enterprises. Public Enterprises Survey, 1994-95, New Delhi, 1996

4.

Donglass, C. “Energy Technology Handbook”. McGraw Hill, New York. 1977

5.

Chaturvedi, T.N. (ed) “Training in Public Administration: The changing Perspectives”. 1989. The Indian Institute of

Public Administration, New Delhi

6.

Chatuvedi, M.C. and Rogers P. “Water Resources Systems Planning: Some Case Studies for India. Indian Academy

of Sciences, Bangalore, 1995.

7.

Tilak, J B G. “The Economic of Inequality in Education”. 1987. Sage, New Delhi.

8.

“India’s Rural Telephone Network”. 1981. New Delhi

9.

Indian Council of Medical Research. “National Conference on Evaluation of Primary Health Care Programmes, 1980,

ICMR, New Delhi.

10.

Ramaiah, J J. “Health Programme Management Through PERT”. 1979. Abhinav, New Delhi