Civil Service Management and Administrative Systems in South Asia

Description

This book examines public administration in South Asia in the context of rapid changes and modernization of administrative traditions, thoughts, and practices. The existing literature has, however, not given adequate attention to these developments, at least in a single volume. The book describes both the shared administrative traditions of Bhutan, Bangladesh, China, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and how far they have adapted their administrative systems to respond to contemporary administrative and governance challenges. The book studies how national civil service reforms have been carried out in each member state of South Asia and how the national civil service acts and different regulations are being implemented, as well as what are the critical factors associated with the implementation of national civil service acts and reform measures in the region. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Introduction: Understanding Civil Service in South Asia (Ishtiaq Jamil, Tek Nath Dhakal, Narendra Raj Paudel)....Pages 1-24 The Civil Service System in Bhutan (Dhurba Rizal)....Pages 25-48 The Civil Service System of Bangladesh (Sk. Tawfique M. Haque, M. Mahfuzul Haque)....Pages 49-72 Civil Service Management in India (Namrata Singh)....Pages 73-97 Civil Service Management in Nepal (Shree Krishna Shrestha, Narendra Raj Paudel)....Pages 99-119 The Promise of Representative Bureaucracy and Citizen’s Trust in the Civil Service in Nepal (Ishtiaq Jamil)....Pages 121-147 Civil Service Reforms in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Progress So Far, Implementation Barriers and Challenges (Imtiaz Badshah, Konstantin Timoshenko)....Pages 149-172 The New Statutory Civil Service in the Maldives: Towards a Decentralized Human Resource Management Model? (Mohamed Faizal, Rob Laking)....Pages 173-192 Public Administration in Sri Lanka: An Analysis of Evolution, Trends, and Challenges in Personnel Management (I. Renuka Priyantha, W. K. Ranjith Dickwella, Ravindra Gunasekara)....Pages 193-214 The Administrative System in Bangladesh: Reform Initiatives with Failed Outcomes (Pranab Kumar Panday)....Pages 215-239 Reforms in the Administrative System of Nepal (Bharat Gautam)....Pages 241-259 The Local Administrative System in India (Jitendra G. Wasnik)....Pages 261-280 Public Administration in Sri Lanka: An Inquiry into Structure, Reforms, and Management (K. Liyanage, R. Ramesh, N. Sivakumar)....Pages 281-304 The Development of Public Administration in the People’s Republic of China: An Analysis of Administrative Reform (S. Baskaran, M. M. Ihjas)....Pages 305-323 Back Matter ....Pages 325-328