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Civil Services and Process of Reforms in Pakistan

Mahmud T


INDUSTRY : Civil Services

AREA : Business Government/International Economy

ORGANIZATION : Government Of Pakistan

LENGTH : 12

LUMS No : 16-302-2015-2

PUBLICATION YEAR : 2015

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KEYWORDS:

Civil Services,Reform Processes,Pakistan,Bureaucracy,Challenges,Opportunities,Public Service,Major Characteristics,Administrative Structure,Training,Examination,Careers,Governance


DESCRIPTION:

The note focuses on the primacy of the civil services as an engine of growth and development in the history of Pakistan. It looks at structures and elements of the administrative apparatus at both the policy making and implementation levels. It further dilates on the process of reforms that the civil services in Pakistan went through. Despite a myriad of reforms, the gap between expectations and performance continues to grow. This brings us to the need for making reforms an inbuilt and on-going process to catch up with the growing demands of efficient service delivery. The foremost objective of the note is to provide undergraduate students with good understanding about the working of a premier institution in the country, which has and continues to play a major and pervasive role in the development process. Another objective is to expose the students to some of the key characteristics of the civil services in Pakistan, making it highly hierarchical in the national life. The note purports to underline the need for on-going reforms to make the processes more accessible and remove structural impediments.


LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1) To provide undergraduate students with good understanding about the working of a premier instution in the country, which has and continues to play a major pervasive role in the development process. 2) To expose the students to some of the key characteristics of the civil services in Pakistan, making it highly hierarchical in the national life. 3) Underlining the need for on-going reforms to make the processes more accessible and remove structural impediments.


SUBJECTS COVERED:

Business Government, International Economy