Civil Service Reforms

Civil Service Reforms 1973

In 1972 the Government of Pakistan appointed Administrative
Reforms Committee to study the role of civil bureaucracy in the
context of socio economic & political development of the country.
The recommendations of the committee were taken into
consideration by the government and formulated the Administrative
Reforms of 1973.

Z.A Bhutto (P.M) announced the Administrative Reforms in his

address to the nation on 20th August,1973.

The reforms also fundamentally changed the bureaucracys structure

in the history of Pakistan.
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The main features of reforms in Civil Service

were as follow:
All classes among government servants would be abolished
and replaced by a unified graded structure.

Bhutto introduced a scheme known as Lateral Entry

System .

Service Tribunals were created consisting of a Judge of High

Court as a chairman, for appealing against aggrieved civil
servant.

OCCUPATIOANAL GROUPS
following Occupational Groups were formed:
Police Service of Pakistan
(PSP)
Pakistan Administrative
Service (PAS)
Foreign Service of Pakistan
(FSP)
Pakistan Audit and
Accounts Service (PAAS)
Pakistan Customs Service
(PCS)
Commence and Trade
Group (C&T)

Information Group
Inland Revenue Service (IRS)
Military Lands &
Cantonment Group (ML&C)
Office Management Group
(OMG)
Economists and Planner
Group
Tribal Area Group
Postal Group
Railways Group
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 Merging of all services into single unified graded

payscales and all civil servants categorized into 22
grades under the National Pay Scales (later Basic Pay
Scales).

Horizontal movements allowed from one cadre to another

and the scope of out-of-turn promotions introduced.

The former Central Superior Services (CSS) were divided

in functional groups such as All Pakistan Unified Grades
(APUG), Federal Unified Grades (FUG).
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 A Common Training Institution was established for

the entry level officers of all the functional groups.

All services and cadres should be merged into a

unified graded structure with equality of opportunity
for all who enter service at any stage based on the
required

professional

and

specialized

competence

necessary for job.

The system of reservation of some higher posts for

any particular occupational group was done away with.
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MAJOR ISSUES OF THE REFORMS

Reservation of Posts Whether certain posts in the secretariat,
district administration, economic pool etc. should remain legally
reserved for members of designated service cadres.
Pay differentials Remuneration of officer will be based on Cadre
wise scale
Status of All Pakistan services- To be modified
Status of CSP Roles function and powers of CSPs were modifie
Affective sentiments Civil Service of Pakistan was said to corrupt,
inefficient and arrogant. This issue was addressed by curtailing the
elitism of service.
Lateral recruitment Provisions were made for recruitment to posts
within central superior services through competitive examination.
Horizontal movement Movement from posts of comparable levels
within a given cadre was allowed to take place to posts in other
cadres.

Status of technical officers Should officers with

technical training hold policy making positions or not.
Role of Head of Department Optimal relationship
between line and staff officers favoring paramountcy of
latter was modified.
Status of pre training Changes were made in preservice training of recruits to central superior services.
Service tribunals Service tribunals were established.
Role of FPSC FPSC was established and its role in
the affairs of personnel administration and recruitment
was decided.
Status of establishment division Role of
Establishment division in the whole system was