Civil Service Management and Administrative Systems in South Asia, 1st ed. 2019

Coordinators: Jamil Ishtiaq, Dhakal Tek Nath, Paudel Narendra Raj

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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.
Chapter One: Introduction: Understanding Civil Service in South Asia
Ishtiaq Jamil, Tek Nath Dhakal and Narendra Raj Paudel

Chapter Two
The Civil Service System in Bhutan
Dhurba Rizal

Chapter Three
The Civil Service System of Bangladesh 
Sk.Tawfique M. Haque and M. Mahfuzul Haque

Chapter Four
Civil Service Management in India
Namrata Singh

Chapter Five
Civil Service Management in Nepal
Shree Krishna Shrestha and Narendra Raj Paudel

Chapter Six
The Promise of Representative Bureaucracy and Citizen’s Trust in the Civil Service in Nepal Ishtiaq Jamil

Chapter Seven
Civil Service Reforms in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Progress So Far, Implementation Barriers and Challenges
Imtiaz Badshah and Konstantin Timoshenko

Chapter Eight
The New Statutory Civil Service in the Maldives: Towards a Decentralized Human Resource Management Model?
Mohamed Faizal and Rob Laking

Chapter Nine
Public Administration in Sri Lanka: An Analysis of Evolution, Trends and Challenges in Personnel Management
Renuka Priyantha, Ranjith Dickwella and Ravindra Gunasekara

Chapter Ten
The Administrative System in Bangladesh: Reform Initiatives with Failed Outcomes
Pranab Kumar Panday 

Chapter Eleven
Reforms in the Administrative System of Nepal
Bharat Gautam

Chapter Twelve
The Local Administrative System in India
Jitendra G. Wasnik

Chapter Thirteen
Public Administration in Sri Lanka: An Inquiry into Structure, Reforms, and Management
 K. Liyanage, R. Ramesh and N. Sivakumar

Chapter Fourteen
The Development of Public Administration in the People’s Republic of China: 
An Analysis of Administrative Reform
S.Baskaran and Mr. M.M. Ihjas

​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.     


Examines an underdeveloped field, the changing nature of public administration in South Asia

Explores reforms over a wide variety of case studies: Bhutan, Bangladesh, China, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka

Investigates the critical factors associated with the implementation of national civil service acts and reform measures in South Asia