TY  - SER
AU  - Uprety, Chuda Raj
TI  - Wielding the bureaucracy for results: reorienting the Nepalese civil service
PY  - 1997///
KW  - Civil service - Nepal
KW  - Administrative reform
N2  - This paper is mainly concerned with analyzing the issues accompanying the reorganization of the Nepalese bureaucracy and recommending appropriate measures to facilitate its successful implementation. The need to restructure its public administration is a concern which came to the forefront only after a major political change in 1951. The formation of an `Administrative Reorganisation Planning Commission' (ARPC) under the chairmanship of then Prime Minister T.P. Acharya in 1957 can be considered an important step. The establishment of an O and M office under the then Ministry of Finance in 1957 and the Public Administration Training Institute under the Ministry of Home Affairs in 1958 were clear indications of the recognition of the need for effective administration and the promotion of work efficiency among civil servants. The Institute of Public Administration was created as an in-service training institute for all levels of public employees, but after the royal takeover the December 1960, the Institute of Public Administration not only lost its separate identity but was closed down. Nepal's first Civil Service Act was enacted in 1956 as an important achievement of ARPC. Civil Service Regulations formed under the Act were amended several times particularly during the country's shift to the partyless Panchayat system (1960-1990) as the mode of governance. The so-called process of Panchayatization of development and bureaucracy ultimately resulted in `Panchayati administration' which left no room for qualified and capable public administrators. After the restoration of multi-party democracy in 1990, efforts were initiated to rid the bureaucracy of the ill effects of 30 years of Centralized Panchayat rule
BR  - AR39147
ER  -