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Civil Service Management in India

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Human resource development implies harnessing the available manpower to the best of its potential and for its optimal utilization. One of the greatest challenges for governments in South Asia today is to develop human resources effectively. Because of their unique historical, social, political, and economic situations, these countries have a complicated trajectory of human resource development. Indian Civil Service management and its growth offer the best exposition of this complexity. The chapter traces the trajectory of civil service resource development in India, its underpinnings and the changes mandated due to the changing character of post-modern administration, governance, and public-service delivery in a globalized, technology-driven world.

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  1. Department of Political Science, Miranda House, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Namrata Singh

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  1. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Ishtiaq Jamil

  2. Central Department of Public Administration, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal

    Tek Nath Dhakal

  3. Public Administration Campus, Central Department of Public Administration, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal

    Narendra Raj Paudel

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Singh, N. (2019). Civil Service Management in India. In: Jamil, I., Dhakal, T., Paudel, N. (eds) Civil Service Management and Administrative Systems in South Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90191-6_4

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