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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র

III

Main Problems:

Conversion of the three district categories of

services into a single one

 The basic character of the governmental system under which these three categories of services existed and operated, will undergo a revolutionary change on the morrow of independence. The former state of Pakistan would cease to exist and hence the former system of government and administration would also disappear. Bangladesh is a sovereign democratic republic engaged in a grim struggle to liberate herself from the clutches of the West Pakistani military rulers. Bangladesh, as stated above, is a single geographic entity. She is geographically compact, culturally homogeneous, and linguistically similar. She will be. it is assumed, a unitary state with a unitary system of government. In such basically altered conditions there appears to be no need and no justification of these three separate categories of Services. There is no need for the all-Pakistan Services, such as, the C. S. P. & P. S. P., simply because there will be no Pakistan comprising two wings as in the past. The tenure system- the provinces borrowing officers from the centre and vice versa-by which the key posts in the Secretariat and in the divisions and districts were filled, will have no validity any more. There is also on need for a separate category of the Central Superior Services as district from the two all-Pakistan services. Similarly, there is no need on justification for the Provincial Services as district from the C. S. P. & other Central Superior Services as there will be no provinces. The main problem is: how to unify these three district categories of services with different conditions of pay, prospects and other incidents into a single unified service, to be known as the Bangladesh Administrative Service, on the non-technical side, and the Bangladesh Scientific and Technical Service on the technical side.

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Defects of the existing structure

 The existing structure of the Civil Services came to us as an inheritance from the British India. The structure of the civil services was largely determined by the course of political and military developments in the nineteenth century. It began with the Report of the Macaulay Committee, 1854 and culminated in the Islington Commission of 1912-15 and the Lee Commission of 1924. The Montagu–Chelmsford Report 1918, and the Report of the simon Commission, 1930 also played not an insignificant role in determining the structure of the Civil Service. In the former state of Pakistan a number of Commissions and committees examined the problem, but nothing fundamental emerged in reality. The basic character of the structure remained what it was in the past. It is generally recognized that the inherited structure is neither adequate nor appropriate for fulfilling needs of a government which will have a fundamentally different character and ideology from the previous administration. The flaws of the inherited structure needs a rigorous examination. The existing structure stands in the way of what is considered to be the only efficient method of matching men to jobs-rigorously examining what each post demands before selecting the individual who is best fitted to fill it. The existing structure seems to suffer from the following defects: