Reforms Required in Civil Services

The suitability of democracy helps to bring high-quality people into the public service, gives credit to public service positions, and can do much to promote excellence.
The age of entry into the public service is a very important factor, especially in the context of attracting trained public servants at reasonable conditions.
To meet the expectations of the founding fathers of the constitutions and objectives stated in it. Hence to recruit young minds who have a common sense of public wellbeing and community service. Hence age limit and number of attempts kept low.
But these needs have changed dramatically as the age of young people who have recently joined the public service has changed.
Part of the change in the recruitment process should be a plan, that is, unless it is based on merit, it should increase the number of candidates to get better and more prominent in the education system than to get them where possible to give them the right value.

It is key to develop new and available Human Resource development.
The ongoing public services training is not reflecting the changes occurring in social and economic levels. There is also insufficient emphasis on the training needs of senior staff.
It has become necessary to expose professionals in the public service to new management skills and concepts such as corporate governance, public relations and the private sector, governance, and communication issues related to corruption.
Transforming the existing human resource should have obligatory provision of the training for all the members of the civil administration, including at entry point and from time-to-time training after completion of certain years. This is in service training with use of previous knowledge and wellestablished mechanism of the monitoring system of the training objectives.
Another important aspect of the training which should be included in training is revisiting the National goals (in regular intervals) and formulation of policies accordingly with the help of the case studies to achieve targets set by the government along with the application of the various tools and technologies, in training modules.

Short-term tenure in key positions, especially in State Governments, is often cited as a major cause of errors in the system of governance.
Although the Government of the day has the right to transfer any of the civil servants, it should be purely based on rationality and objectives. This will help in generating a sense of security among the public servants and stability in policy implementation. This will also help in increasing the efficiency and more active administrative system which will respond to the public in a quick manner.
Sustainable employment is also needed to empower the nominee to learn the job, develop his or her strengths and contribute in the best possible way.
Institutional and systemic changes would need to be made to ensure a stable environment in key positions.

The increasingly difficult challenges of modern governance require high levels of knowledge and in-depth understanding from public servants.
It means a Civil Servant should have domain expertise of formulation and implementation of public policies. With some certain qualities like professionalism, essential qualification, management exposure, training, and apprenticeship.
The skill and knowledge in domain expertise is different from specialised and technical knowledge. Domain expertise explains about broader understanding of the respective field along with specialised management skills with application of their knowledge.
Assigning certain resources to public servants at the beginning of their work and retaining them in the allocated domain is a key element of the Commission’s recommendations for public service reform.

An important part of change is choosing the best in society for the most challenging assignments in government. Senior executives are responsible for advanced policy advice, administrative and technical obligations.
There should be competition for selection of the people to the senior management position.