Srinagar June 04:(KNS) Department of Public Administration, Amar Singh College, Cluster University Srinagar organized a special lecture on the theme “Changing Nature of District Administration: Opportunities and Challenges” by Faz Lul Haseeb (IAS-2018), Additional Deputy Commissioner Srinagar.
The function was attended by Principal Amar Singh College, Professor Bashir Ahmad Rather; Head of Department Political Science, Prof Arifat Jan; Head of Department Urdu, Kousar Muzammil; Head of Department Media Studies, Prof. Pervaiz Lone; faculty members and students of Department of Public Administration and Department of Political Science.
In his inaugural speech, Prof. Bashir Ahmad Rather highlighted the changing nature of administration, especially in the context of technological developments. He stressed that citizen-administration collaboration is the future of governance.
Faz Lul Haseeb in his special lecture presented the historical account of the office of District Administration and reflected on the changes and reforms in this institution over the years. He stressed that Deputy Commissioner has to combine the role of a specialist as well as a generalist.
He stressed that in public systems management, governance to a large extent is dependent upon the functioning of district administration. He further stated that this institution while maintaining transparency accountability, and accessibility has to also exhibit behavioural perspective through exploring innovation, technological advancement, ethics, creativity, and altruism. He stressed that citizen-administration partnership at all levels including through social media has opened a new dimension of district administration.
He concluded by saying that development administration at the district level involves both policy implementation and monitoring and balancing of responsibilities between bureaucracy and political executive.
Dr Zubair Nazeer, Head of the Department of Public administration reflected that administrative-academic convergence is a way forward in development administration and good governance. At the end of the programme, the Department of Media studies screened a short documentary film related to the college filmed by the students. The special lecture ended with a formal vote of thanks by Prof. Tafazul Hussain from the Department of Political science.(KNS)