Who is CSS Officer?

[DizzyTide]

Where can I get the Hierarchy of Authority currently employed in Pakistan. Means that if you're powerful, can gather a mob, have links with influential names, and have huge investment behind, you can enroll yourself in list of voters and get enter into Parliament and Rule the country/district (that's basically Policy Making). But if you're intelligent, hard worker, and determined, do CSS and be DC/AC of your district, DIG or something else, and follow the command of PM and Politicians???? Am I right in getting that?

Apart all, can anyone guide me, how the Administrative wing works in Pakistan. Means, 1-Legislatures sit in Parliament and are elected Politicians, 2-Judiciary is court system, and judges, too elected by Parliament 3-Administration is what Parliament select to be PM and President and CM is what PM decides, so what the HECk CSS has in Authority?

[Fahad Ahsaan]

First of all let me clear some thing in democracy Parliament is supreme legitimization authority and selected for policy making by voters but unfortunately it acts like a dummy in the Pakistan.
Second Supreme court and other important designation appointment is always done by recommending not by selecting.The process of selection is through proper Channel
Thirdly civil services officers are the linking bridges between the policy making(parliament) and its implementation and evaluation.

[DizzyTide]

Linking bridges between Parliament (Policy) and Implementation? Means the knowledgeable person is following directions of Powerful ones? Else what require you to be in Parliament is a (fake) Bachelor Degree. Why there is no competitive test for politicians?

[Fahad Ahsaan]

Unfortunately Yes but here is a big difference between parliament and civil services a civil servant is permanent employee while a the parliament is limited time selected body by voters.
They just make policy whether right or wrong but the executing and implementation is civil servant responsibility in long run.

[Hassan02]

Originally Posted by DizzyTide

Linking bridges between Parliament (Policy) and Implementation? Means the knowledgeable person is following directions of Powerful ones? Else what require you to be in Parliament is a (fake) Bachelor Degree. Why there is no competitive test for politicians?

Haha please tell me the knowledge of CSS officers? How many Federal Sectaries right now actually studied subjects related to the ministries they are running? Finance is a highly technical field, does the Finance Secretary have a doctoral degree in a finance related field? I too want to become a CSP officer (2015 will be my first attempt), but the fact is that CSS is nothing more than a paper of English, History and General knowledge.

[Fahad Ahsaan]

Originally Posted by Hassan02

Haha please tell me the knowledge of CSS officers? How many Federal Sectaries right now actually studied subjects related to the ministries they are running? Finance is a highly technical field, does the Finance Secretary have a doctoral degree in a finance related field? I too want to become a CSP officer (2015 will be my first attempt), but the fact is that CSS is nothing more than a paper of English, History and General knowledge.

before appointment a department related training course always conduct first

[Ammar9]

http://www.finance.gov.pk/profile_secretary.html

Originally Posted by Hassan02

Haha please tell me the knowledge of CSS officers? How many Federal Sectaries right now actually studied subjects related to the ministries they are running? Finance is a highly technical field, does the Finance Secretary have a doctoral degree in a finance related field? I too want to become a CSP officer (2015 will be my first attempt), but the fact is that CSS is nothing more than a paper of English, History and General knowledge.

Please check the profile of finance secretary and see his qualification.

[Hassan02]

Originally Posted by Ammar9

Please check the profile of finance secretary and see his qualification.

OK, he has a PHd, thanks for correcting me, but he is an exception, not a rule. Also, how many research papers has he published? At his level having a doctoral degree is meaningless unless you also state the amount of research that a individual has published in peer-reviewed journals.

Originally Posted by Fahad Ahsaan

before appointment a department related training course always conduct first

Would you want a mechanic with 6 months of surgical training to operate on your heart? No? Then why would you want a person like Nargis Sethi (the former Water and Power Secretary) who has no experience with power generation and distribution to run your country's ministry of Water and Power? People spend their entire lives in this field, are you really so naive as to think that a person can become a master with 6 months of training?

[DizzyTide]

Even if CSS Officer will never be able to use forestry (if he has studied it while preparing it for CSS exams) at least he's intelligent enough or has passed through a rigorous training of logical and analytic process, that makes one distinguished among crowd. Other thing is OFFICERS aren't technicians they're not like Doctors/Engineers, what a engineer do is akin to what a electrician do (that is application of some scientific rules). But MANAGEMENT is not to do the WORK but to manage how the work is done (by the people). So even if a Minister of railway don't know how rail actually runs, still he can be a good manager (through skills and experience). But my question is who will decide who will be the Manager of manager? That is CSS Manager works under non-competitive Politicians.