Agricultural Development in Bangladesh by E Boyd Wennergren

Author:E Boyd Wennergren [Wennergren, E Boyd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367017170
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-07T00:00:00+00:00

Public Sector Administration

An expansive bureaucracy operates the public sector at both the centralized and decentralized levels of administration. There are no official published estimates of the number of public employees, but it is thought to be large.13 Most public workers are hired under a civil service system that reaches up the organizational structure to the level of secretary in most ministries. Only ministers are drawn from outside the civil service lists. The service is a legacy from the British Civil Service, which was used throughout the sub-continent prior to 1947. At the time of partition, India and Pakistan built on the system by staffing it with their own people. The system in Pakistan was essentially continued by Bangladesh following independence.14

The present-day civil service is seen as a desirable career. Wages are low, but other amenities such as job security, housing, participation in the foodgrain rationing system, and medical assistance, which accrue in varying degrees at different career levels, make the remuneration considerably better than that of the average Bangladeshi. In a programming sense, the civil service adds a technical and professional potential to the operation of the public sector not always found in developing nations. Governmental servants are granted tenure of employment and should be isolated from the capriciousness often associated with public appointments, all of which augurs well for developing continuous quality administration. However, the potential of the system remains to be fully developed.

There is little evidence that the Bangladesh public sector, even with an operational civil service, is more efficient than those of other developing nations. The slow public sector response to even routine matters is widely criticized as is widespread administrative corruption, which the current military government has vowed to eradicate. Conventional wisdom about the efficiency of the BDG identifies corruption as significant. In a recent study of Bangladesh’s administrative organization, corruption was said to be prevalent and was characterized as a legacy that has been passed from the years of British rule through the period of partition and into the new Government of Bangladesh.15 However, as in most LDC’s where corruption ia present, there has been no systematic evaluation of its impact.16

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