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The bars of bureaucracy
February 18, 2021
LAHORE: Civil services reforms should be a recurring feature of governance in the country as they are imperative for ensuring smooth, transparent, and best services to the people and most importantly hiring the human resource that is competent to the point.
Successive governments assigned this task to former governor State Bank of Pakistan Dr Ishrat Hussain to come out with a viable solution to the pathetic performance of bureaucrats. Dr Ishrat is credited with reforming the State Bank of Pakistan into a clean, transparent and reliable institution. He advised the Musharraf regime and Punjab government under Shahbaz Sharif on governance reforms.
Civil service reform begins
The writer is a senior political economist based in Islamabad. He can be reached at [email protected]
Let’s face it. The crux of the matter of civil service reform is the incongruity between the centralised administrative services and federal state structure. Yet again, the inheritors of the ICS/CSP tradition, grouped now as DMG/PAS, have successfully resisted any diminution of their might. In this they have been supported by the political champions of a single national curriculum and the khaki builders of a unitary narrative. The recent official announcement laying down the contours of civil service reform has been rightly criticised for being cosmetic. The issue of political interference remains unaddressed. Improving or changing rules and procedures is the focus. These relate to appointment, performance evaluation, training, promotions and retirement. Inter-provincial transfer rules will now ensure regular movement around provinces, while provincia