Report of The Administrative and Services Reorganisation Committee, Part-V:Summary of Recommendations, 1975

Abstract

The Task before the Civil Service 1. With the new social-philosophy of the State, the civil servants should shed their traditional class arid status consciousness and create a living fellowship with-the common man. Officers dealing with agriculture in a thana or district should physically work in the field in peak transplanting or harvesting seasons; officers in other nation-building departments' should' also likewise participate in field work in their own areas. (Para 1.10) The New Structure of the Civil Service 2.v There 'should be no classes in the Civil Sendee, nor any reservation of posts except for obvious technical reasons. The - division between the former All-Pakistan and other Central Superior .Services and the corresponding former Provincial Services and between higher and lower services should all be abolished./ All civil servants should be organized in a :single classless Unified Grading Structure carrying an appropriate number of different pay scales matching different skills .and responsibility. The grading for each post should be determined by an.analysis of-the.job and posts in the same grade should carry the same pay scale-: (Paras 3.9 & 3.14) . 3. The total number of grades covering all posts from top to bottom should be ten, The manner of entry into these various grades and the recruitment aqd promotion..procedures are indicated in the chart at Appendix I. _ (See also -Chapter on Recruitment). An illustrative allocation of , various jposts between the different grades is also given in the lists accompanying Appendix I. (Paras 3.16 & 3.18)