Ishwor Thapa Public Administration Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal An Article “Public Administration: Meaning, Scope and Its Nature” Public Administration: Meaning, Scope and Its Nature Ishwor Thapa MPA Student, Public Administration Campus, Tribhuvan University, Balkhu, Kathmandu Summary: This article tries to analyze the meaning and scope of public administration. Public Administration is the detailed a systematic execution of public law. Every particular application of law is public administration. Public administration is a cooperative effort of a group of people in pursuit of common objective in the process of managing public affairs. Public administration has been used in two senses- narrower sense (view of traditional writers) and wider sense (view of modern writers). In narrower sense public administration includes the activities of only execution. “Public administration is an instrument with two blades like a pair of scissors. One blade may be knowledge of the field covered by POSDCoRB, the other blade is knowledge of the subject matter in which these techniques are applied. Both blades must be good to make an effective tool”. Meaning of Public Administration: Public administration is formed by two different terms, public and administration. The term public means government which is mainly focus on government activities and actions. Whereas the term administration is derived from a Latin word “Administer” which means to serve, too direct, to control, to care for or to look after people. Literally, the term “administration” means management of public or private affairs. Hence, simply public administration is known as the management of public affairs. It looks after the affairs of the people and provides services to them. Here the main concern is public administration. Public Administration is the implementation of government policy and also an academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil servants for working in the public service. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" whose fundamental goal is to "advance management and policies so that government can function . Public administration is "centrally concerned with the organization of government