Development Administration: A Conceptual Understanding

Development administration has evolved as a branch of public administration and is primarily concerned with the governments and administration of developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America which emerged after the second world war. It focuses on developing the activities of governments to bring change especially towards achieving progression in social, economic and political fields. Development administration actually puts forward any social or political system and structure on the path of development. It is also concernedwith well organised, integrated and directed efforts of national governments to bring socio-economic progress, welfare and well-being of people at large. To understand development administration, this paper discusses both 'Administration ' and 'Development' which are wide-ranging terms and highlights that the scope of 'development administration' is equally wide. After having analyzed the scope and subject matter of development administration, the objective of development administration is described here.The basic objective of development administration is to understand the administrative problems related to development which in turn creates various impediments in the way of development. These impediments include poverty, illiteracy, population increase, resource crunch, environmental protection, food production, energy crisis, deterioration of human environment, decrease of middle class, absence of national unity, decrease in per capita income etc. Further this paper also indicates various features for success of development administration and its usefulness to bring fruitful and satisfactory results by removing bottlenecks and impediments related to development.