Subject(s): Politics and government -- Issues in public administration and suggested reforms in Kerala : Secretariat, official language, decentralization, reorganization of Taluks and blocks, state civil service, joint consultative council -- Management issues in financial administration and planning : Planning at state level, project approach to plan schemes, monitoring and inter-departmental coordination, planning below the state level -- Police administration in Kerala : Problems relating to establishment, under-utilization of family quarters, problem relating to discharge of police duties and functions -- Management issues in education including higher and professional education : Complex nature of educational scene in Kerala, fincnail management -- Personnel management in government : Leadership, job evaluation and rotation, public service commission, annual confidential reports, concept of political neutrality -- Problem and prospects of introducing management techniques in government : System approach and analysis, effective utilization and capital assets, cost benefit analysis, brain storming sessions, training and development -- Management issues in agricultural development : Coordination, changes needed in technology and economic organization, agricultural research/planning, supply of inputs, management of government farms, professionalism in management of cooperatives -- Management issues in field of labor in Kerala : national labor policy, parameters of labor management policy, Kerala scenario, specific management issues in labor -- Management issues in program for weaker sections in Kerala : Special component plans and tribal sub- plans, regression after emergency , harijan -girijan year 1984-85 -- Management issues in social welfare program : Debate on social welfare spending, social welfare expenditure, economic discrimination, management problems which call for a goal orinted approach -- Management issues in urban development and housing : Proliferation of institutions, problems of urban development -- Problems in medical education and hospital management : Functions of institutions under directorate of medical education, manpower generation, admission to medical courses, psychological attitude of students to various courses, clinical private practice, health care delivery system, Rome program, nurses and nursing, dual administrative control, political and hospital administration