{"id":1130,"date":"2026-08-09T18:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/prime-ministers-office-pmo-has-emerged-as-the-most-powertul-upsc-psir-2019-1905\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:21","slug":"prime-ministers-office-pmo-has-emerged-as-the-most-powertul-upsc-psir-2019-1905","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/prime-ministers-office-pmo-has-emerged-as-the-most-powertul-upsc-psir-2019-1905\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister&#8217;s Office (PMO) has emerged as the most powertul institution in India. Discuss."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">rR! Extra-constitutional, recognised only under the Allocation of Business Rules \u2192 PM (political) + Principal Secretary (admin) \u2192 \u201cmost powerful\u201d claim rests on growth beyond the brief R2 PMO built only to assist the PM \u2192 real weight has outgrown that mandate \u2192 power is real, but not institutionally supreme<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Strength tracks PM&#039;s style\/mandate \u2192 modest (Nehru) \u2192 decision-centre (Indira) \u2192 strong again (Modi, single-party majority) \u2192 Gupta + Jaffrelot: centralisation tied to mandate \u2192 appointments + flagship programmes + foreign policy + crisis management \u2192 rivals Cabinet Secretariat + erodes ministerial autonomy + parallel cabinet \u2192 Baru: court-like concentration around the PM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Power derivative + conditional \u2192 shrank under coalitions (Manmohan Singh) \u2192 no independent constitutional standing \u2192 dominance only mirrors executive centralisation \u2192 Arendt: concentration weakens plurality + collective responsibility<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 PMO\u2019s rise = personalisation \/ centralisation of executive power, not the deed supremacy of an autonomous institution R2 Democratic balance needs Cabinet deliberation + transparency + a restored Cabinet Secretariat role<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[37],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[60],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1130","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-37","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-principal-organs-of-the-union-and-state-government","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1130\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}