CSS Reforms 2021||06
#CSS Reforms 2020 21 New updates
to all asking for reforms
They are not going to be implemented in near future
as said by Dr Ishrat Hussain, it will take time.
Firstly, Screening test would be conducted
secondly ,you do not need to have a degree in Criminology
for the PSP.
or degree in International Relations for FSP.
BR Research recently sat down with renowned economist Dr. Ishrat Husain in Islamabad to take his pulse on the civil service reforms under the PTI government. Dr. Ishrat, who is currently serving as Advisor to the Prime Minister for Institutional Reforms & Austerity, retired as Dean of the Institute of Business Administration in 2016. He has been a career bureaucrat and a former Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, while also having a long and distinguished career with the World Bank. He has also worked as a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC. Below are edited excerpts of the sit-down.
BR Research: In your current role, which areas of public-sector reforms are you particularly focusing on?
Dr. Ishrat Husain: The lesson that I learnt from the 2006-08 National Commission for Government Reforms (NCGR) episode was that we took two years to prepare a very comprehensive report covering all aspects of the civil service administration, police, local governments, and other areas. By the time that report came out, the government had changed, and therefore, there was no appetite for its implementation. This time, our approach is that we are going to pick up one particular issue, take it to the cabinet, get it approved and then have it implemented.
We have started with an integrated, value-chain approach of the human resources. We are looking at how we can enhance the quality of human resource in the whole government. The value chain starts with recruitment induction, and then it goes to training, performance management, career progression and promotion policy, compensation and benefits, and finally retirement.
BRR: What is the scope of reforms in those six areas and what are the timelines associated with them?
IH: For recruitment, we are bringing in some element of domain knowledge at the time of the appearing in the civil services exam. So right now, you may be an English Literature graduate but because of the quota system and if you are from Punjab, you are not given a place in DMG or Foreign Service, and you end up in Audit and Account Service. As a result, your domain knowledge becomes absolutely incompatible with the job you are going to do. So either you are a frustrated person or you rely on your clerks and juniors. The government, therefore, is currently unable to make an optimal utilization of these bright young men and women.
BRR: So you are moving towards specialization.
IH: We are now moving towards a blended approach in which the relative strengths of the generalists and specialists are optimally utilized. Therefore, at the time of induction, we are creating four clusters of specialization. You may be a doctor or an engineer, but we now want you to appear in two subjects that are pertinent to the service. So if you are going for a career in Foreign Service, you must appear at International Relations and International Law as optional papers. If you prefer to work in the Police Service, you must have chosen papers on Criminology and Civil & Criminal Procedural Codes as optional subjects. So that is the mapping we are doing.
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