Civil Service Management and Administrative Systems in South Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction: Understanding Civil Service in South Asia

   • Ishtiaq Jamil, Tek Nath Dhakal, Narendra Raj Paudel

   Pages 1-24

3. The Civil Service System in Bhutan

   • Dhurba Rizal

   Pages 25-48

4. The Civil Service System of Bangladesh

   • Sk. Tawfique M. Haque, M. Mahfuzul Haque

   Pages 49-72

5. Civil Service Management in India

   • Namrata Singh

   Pages 73-97

6. Civil Service Management in Nepal

   • Shree Krishna Shrestha, Narendra Raj Paudel

   Pages 99-119

7. The Promise of Representative Bureaucracy and Citizen’s Trust in the Civil Service in Nepal

   • Ishtiaq Jamil

   Pages 121-147

8. Civil Service Reforms in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Progress So Far, Implementation Barriers and Challenges

   • Imtiaz Badshah, Konstantin Timoshenko

   Pages 149-172

9. The New Statutory Civil Service in the Maldives: Towards a Decentralized Human Resource Management Model?

   • Mohamed Faizal, Rob Laking

   Pages 173-192

10. 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

11. The Administrative System in Bangladesh: Reform Initiatives with Failed Outcomes

    • Pranab Kumar Panday

    Pages 215-239

12. Reforms in the Administrative System of Nepal

    • Bharat Gautam

    Pages 241-259

13. The Local Administrative System in India

    • Jitendra G. Wasnik

    Pages 261-280

14. Public Administration in Sri Lanka: An Inquiry into Structure, Reforms, and Management

    • K. Liyanage, R. Ramesh, N. Sivakumar

    Pages 281-304

15. 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

16. Back Matter

    Pages 325-328

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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.

• Bhutanis Civil Service
• Royal Bhutanis Civil Service Commission
• Administrative culture
• Bangladesh Civil Service
• Professionalism
• governance
• Indian civil Service
• Colonial
• Governance reform
• Nepalese Civil service
• inclusion
• lateral entry
• Civil Service reform
• administrative structure
• pakistan
• decentralisation
• Maldives
• public service
• public personnel management
• politicisation

• University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  Ishtiaq Jamil

• Central Department of Public Administration, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal

  Tek Nath Dhakal

• Public Administration Campus, Central Department of Public Administration, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal

  Narendra Raj Paudel

​Ishtiaq Jamil is Professor in the Department of Administration and Organization Theory at the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. 

Tek Nath Dhakal is Professor and Head of the Department of Public Administration, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. 

Narendra Raj Paudel is Lecturer in the Department of Public Administration, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.     

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