Subject(s): Defence -- Public services -- Second world war, Indian administration and its characteristics, contemporary administrative context -- Central government : Framework, secretariat, ministry of home affairs, department of personnel and administrative reforms, ministry of finance, ministry of defence, ministry of external affairs, planning commission and national development council, executive agencies, generalists and specialists, procedures of work, constitutional authorities, minister-secretary relationship, advisory committees, administration of public undertakings, public services, all India services, Indian administrative service, central civil services, in service training for civil servants, reform of civil service, o & M in central government, union-state relationship, North eastern council, administrative corruption, administrative tribunals, administrative accountability, administrative reforms -- State government : State secretariats, board of revenue, regional administration, district administration, state public services -- Local government :Rural and urban local government, panchayat raj and Asoka Mehta committee