Bureaucracy Essay

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INTRODUCTION Bureaucracy forms the backbone of a country 's administrative setup. Brilliant minds, blessed with extraordinary acumen, are inducted into the civil service to ensure that the best people come at the helm. As policy-implementing arm of the government, the Civil Service officers strive to serve the interests of the public and those of the state in a way that there is continuation in state policies regardless of the change of governments. The job of politicians is to make policies and job of bureaucracy is to implement these policies but in Pakistan we have an ineffective and corrupt bureaucracy which is also involved in politics and works on the tune of rulers. A dysfunctional Bureaucracy has kept Pakistan many years behind the rest of …show more content…

It is a legacy of British Bureaucracy , which was one the most remarkable and successful bureaucracies developed in any country, Up till the unfortunate break up of Pakistan in 1971, the civilian bureaucracy was dedicated and worked hard for the development and progress of country. After Bhutto`s reforms in Bureaucracy to withdraw the constitutional protection of civil servants, the bureaucrats become the most obedient servants of rulers and future rulers instead of becoming servants of state. THE REAL ROLE OF BUREAUCRACY The role of bureaucracy is to implement the policies of legislative and to maintain law and order in the state. The bureaucracy can help the politicians in making public policy but it is not their responsibility to make policies. It is the domain of politicians to make public policies because they have been given mandate by the people and they are elected representative of people. Now politicians have abandoned their role of policy making due to their incompetence and bureaucrats have taken this role by filling the vacuum. INVOLVEMENT OF BUREAUCRACY IN

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