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Ripan Kumar Biswas
New York, U.S.A
Hope you are doing well and thanks for publishing my previous write-ups
This is an article about "Let come merit in the Bangladesh Civil Service". I will be highly honoured if you publish this article. I apprecite your time to read this article.
Thanks
Have a nice time
With Best Regards
Ripan Kumar Biswas
New York, U.S.A
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Let come merit in the Bangladesh Civil Service
Ripan Kumar Biswas
"Government jobs belong to the country's people, not politicians and shall be filled only with regard to public service," said Theodore Roosevelt, first U.S. Civil Service Commissioner (1889-1895) and the 26th President of the United States
To recruit the people the country needs, the department or the respective authority must ensure to expand its outreach to all parts of the country so that a country gets a high skilled workforce who can represent country's diversity and can advance national interests. To do so, recruitment should be fair.
Recruitment is about getting the best person for the job. In most of the countries, it is usually dealt with by the Public (or Civil) Service Commission (PSC) whose remit is enshrined in the Constitution. Recruitment should be fair which means that the PSC should be genuinely independent. It can be harder to ensure fairness in a decentralized system, which is why many developing countries resist devolving recruitment to line agencies. Recruitment should also use skilful methods, e.g. developing selection criteria, introducing occupational testing at assessment centers, standardized interview structures and training for interviewers. It offers suggestions for governments wishing to strengthen appointments based on merit.
The Commission is charged with maintaining the purposes of civil service systems, merit selection, tenure and an independent Civil Service Commission. Independent civil service commission only defense against politics.
The Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) is a quasi judicial body established under the Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
Although it has gone through various amendments since 1981 including eliminating political patronage, encouraging efficiency and introducing staff training, Bangladesh Civil Service Recruitment Rules, 1981, laid down the procedure for recruitment to various services of the republic to bring success in the public sector programmes. The requirement to consult the Public Service Commission is a constitutional one as envisaged in Clause (2) of Article 140 of the Constitution.
The implementation of government policies and projects is the duty of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) body, a corps of trained administrators who form the nation's most influential group of civilians. Although according to the constitutional obligations, the commission is only responsible to the parliament of Bangladesh for its actions and the recommendations and the decisions of the commission can only be reviewed or replaced by the Hon'ble President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
Political sympathy and partisan activity are now required as a condition of appointment. Fitness for office is given far less consideration and thus, the quality of public service is seriously affected in Bangladesh
The partisan recruitment of BSC examinees according to the interest of either political parties or other beneficiary groups, leakage of question papers frequently over the years and taking bribe by members, officials or staffs of the Commission are among the most raised allegations against the Commission, which have contributed to a massive erosion of trust and credibility of this constitutional body.
In addition, irregularities in BSC examination, allocation of seats in groups with bribe, ensuring success in the preliminary test with bribe, copying and solving questions outside the exam hall, replacing examination scripts or documents, failed candidates on the merit list, corruption in viva voce, giving extra-ordinary marks to the target candidates, calling candidates to Commission after viva voce, changing marks, leakage of BSC results or contract for whole BCS exam are some obstacles to get genuine administrators to serve the country.
The civil service was instrumental in sustaining military or semi-military rule in 1975-90—a linkage that impeded the institutional development of the service. One reason for holding general elections under neutral caretaker governments is that many civil servants back one of the political parties in the hope of being awarded lucrative postings and other benefits. Many observers believe that tackling corruption in the civil service will reduce the corruption in every where as the civil service sector is the real wheel of country's administration.
The present military-backed interim government is aware that the primary way by which corruption can be tackled in the long term is to target the development of a merit-based, suitably rewarded civil service. BPSC has been reconstituted by appointing a new chairman and other members, and has planned to develop a strategic perspective for improving the quality of the civil service, beginning with recruitment and promotion policies and practices.
It has already cancelled the viva voce of the controversial 27th BCS examinations decision after reviewing newspaper reports and various allegations about the examination in order to restore confidence in public mind and establish transparency in the recruiting process for public jobs and immediately reschedule the viva for all successful candidates of the written examinations. And after a time-lag of two and a half years since the circular for the last BCS exam was issued on June 28, 2005, that for the 28th BCS exam, has just been published on January 23, 2008.
Although the latest circular disappointed everyone and should be reviewed as it said that only graduates aged 30 years or below as of January 1, 2008 can apply for the 28th BCS examinations, it is a palpable public expectation to get real meritorious civil servants as they are core functionary of the government.
The present caretaker government has completed its one year of its tenure and the outgoing year will remain a remarkable transition phase for the nation, if BPSC can finish all the recruitment processes of the 28th BCS examination during the end of this non political government.
January 27, 2007, New York
Ripan Kumar Biswas is a freelance writer based in New York
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