THIS is apropos the news ‘Civil service reforms are old wine in new bottle: observers’ (Jan 22). The so-called drastic civil service reforms unveiled by the government have focussed on two main areas early forced retirement of delinquent officers, and tough criteria for promotion of officers.
In addition to an all-embracing and all-encompassing Civil Servant Act, 1973, there are other civil service rules, civil service regulations and civil service policy instructions contained in very exhaustive details in the Fundamental Rules & Supplementary Rules, 1922, Civil Service Regulations (updated in 1977) and a voluminous civil service compendium titled ‘Civil Establishment Code’ (Estacode), which is euphemistically called the ‘bible of civil services’.
• Promotion of official facing inquiry to be deferred
• Plea bargain, voluntary return included in definition of misconduct
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has said that reforms in the civil service would pave the way for ‘forced’ retirement of delinquent officers from government service and introduction of tough criteria for promotion of bureaucrats.
Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mehmood, who is also chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Institutional Reforms, told a press conference on Wednesday that Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday approved these reforms and that the rules that governed the civil service had been brought in conformity with the reforms.