Syllabus
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Course Code: B-PAD603 Course Name: 3.Administrative Ethics and Governance |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Introduction: Ethics – concept and significance; Key concepts – Right, Duty, Freedom, Equality, Fraternity, Karma, Purusharthas, and Dharma. Contribution of Kautilya: Character Building, Measures to tackle Corruption; Contribution of Mahatma Gandhi –Satyagraha and Truth. | |
| 2 | Applied Ethics: Issues of Inequality, Abortion, Foeticide, Suicide, Environment Degradation, Capital Punishment; and Nature of Moral Dilemmas., Contribution of Western Administrative Thinkers to Ethics with special reference to Socrates (Moral Theory) and Immanuel Kant (Deontological Theory) | |
| 3 | Ethics in Public Life: Civil Service Neutrality and Anonymity; Significance of Ethical and Moral Values in Governance. Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct for Civil Services in India | |
| 4 | Probity in Governance: Corruption – Causes, Remedies; Institutional Arrangements for fighting Corruption in India: CVC, CBI, Lokpal and Lokayukta | |
