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Description
The civil service is the executive agency or the action arm of the state. This book discusses the inception, development, and the role of the higher civil services—the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and its allied services. Highlighting the nature and the variety of challenges that a developing democracy offers civil servants, the book Outlines:
• the strategic positions members of the civil service occupy in all sectors of
the government;
• how they execute laws and implement policies and decisions of the government;
• how their decisions influence the lives of all sections of society; and
• the importance of a civil service system that strengthens the government's
partnership with private organizations.
Concluding with an erudite analysis of the report of the Fifth Pay Commission and the committees constituted for Civil Service Reform, the volume will be indispensable to scholars and students of public administration, training institutes of the civil service, bureaucrats, aspiring civil servants, and the interested lay reader.
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Contents
1. The Role and Importance of the Higher Civil Service
2. The Environment of the Civil Service in India
3. The Higher Civil Service during British Rule
4. The Higher Civil Service since Independence
5. The Central Personnel Agency
6. Recruitment
7. Chief Recruitment Agency in India: The Union Public Service Commission
8. Top Management Staffing
9. The Establishment Officer in the Government of India
10. All-India Services
11. The Central Civil Services
12. The Specialists in the Higher Civil Service
13. In-service Training
14. Promotion
15. Salary Fixation of the Higher Civil Service
16. Conditions of Service
17. Civil Service Ethics
18. Making the Civil Service Accountable
19. Road Map to the Future: The Fifth Central Pay Commission and Beyond
20. Challenges for the Nature
Index
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Author Details
S.R. Maheshwari is former Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi and National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.
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