IN Pakistan, recruitment to civil services calls for a candidate to go through a competitive examination, commonly called the Civil Superior Services (CSS).
Unfortunately, the examination lays greater part of its base on bookish knowledge and the capability of candidates to cram in order to succeed.
The CSS examination is more a test of rote-learning capacity of a candidate than his/her analytical approach towards a given situation, and so are the other examinations being conducted in Pakistan with the purpose of selecting civil servants.
Any candidate good at learning by heart facts and figures in the subject of Pakistan Studies gets higher marks.
Similarly, any candidate who has memorised long definitions from books of well-known sociologists is likely to score more than an analytical student in the same subject.
We should not forget that the FPSC defines the CSS as an analytical examination, which it fails to materialise in practice.
The ever-deteriorating social and economic conditions, bad governance and ever-increasing institutional corruption in Pakistan are three glaring examples of the complete failure of the civil services and bureaucracy selected through the outdated CSS examinations for years.
I suggest the FPSC review its policy on CSS examinations and introduce a system based on ‘analytical approach assessment’ as done in the UK and Japan to select their civil servants.
This is the field of master’s degree holders in Public Administration. Thus they should be hired without any competitive examination because they have grasp and exposure regarding management of governmental affairs and can serve people effectively and efficiently.
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Hakim Ali Shar