Governance
- Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
- Development processes and the development industry
- The role of NGOs
- SHGs
- Various groups and associations
- Donors
- Charities
- Institutional and other stakeholders.
- Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes;
- Mechanisms
- Laws
- Institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.
- Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to
- Health
- Education
- Human Resources.
- Issues relating to poverty and hunger.
- Important aspects of governance
- Transparency and accountability
- E-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential;
- Citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures.
- Role of civil services in a democracy.