Political Science · Governance & Public Policy in India
UGC NET December 2014 Political Science
Which one of the following institutions was established in India on the recommendations of Paul H. Appleby?
ALBS Academy of Administration
BIndian Institute of Public Administration ✓ Correct
CIndian Council of Social Science Research
DIndian Police Academy
Correct answer: (B) Indian Institute of Public Administration — The Indian Institute of Public Administration was set up on Paul Appleby's recommendation, so the answer is Indian Institute of Public Administration.
Explanation
★The Indian Institute of Public Administration was set up on Paul Appleby's recommendation, so the answer is Indian Institute of Public Administration.
★The IIPA was founded in 1954 as an autonomous research and training body in New Delhi.
★Paul H. Appleby was an American expert invited to review Indian administration in the early 1950s.
★His two reports, in 1953 and 1956, proposed reforms in public administration and training.
★He also recommended an institute to professionalise the civil service, which led to the IIPA.
★The Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy trains IAS probationers and was not Appleby's creation.
★The ICSSR funds social science research and the police academy trains police officers, so neither fits.
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