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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র

 Time and space do not permit us to enter into a detailed discussion of other vital issues-recruitment, training, pay, discipline and conduct. Merit alone should be basis of recruitment. First rate minds from all comers of the academic discipline should be recruited through the system of open competitive examination to be conducted by the Public Service Commission. Apart from the traditional method, method II as it obtains in Britain, may be applied. In the end, the quality of the recruits greatly depends on the quality of education in the country. Immediately after independence government will have to appoint a fairly good number of persons from different professions outside the civil service to cope with the acute shortage of competent personnel. This kind of lateral entry will be on a contract basis for a definite period. Training arrangements that will be inherited by the Government of Bangladesh are lifeless, half-hearted, and half-backed. The training system should be based on the principles and methods on which the Ecole National d'Administration in France is built. Justice, equity and fairness should be the keynote of conduct and discipline. The pay-scale should be rational and in tune with the prevailing economic conditions in the country The ridiculously senseless gap between the highest pay and the lowest pay should be reduced. The extent of pay at the lower level must amount to a living wage. Immediately after independence the highest pay would not be more than Rs. 1,500.00 per month for a couple of years. Other things remaining equal, the economy, it is assumed, will recover during this period and at the end of this period, the entire issue of pay-scale and other relevant matters will be thoroughly examined by a high-powered pay commission. Corruption and malpractices in different forms must be dealt with effectively. Its costs are excessive as a recent analysis of corruption in the U. S. A. shows. Suitable machinery will have to be evolved to deal with this cancer.

ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANISATION

The Secretariat

 The secretariat is the nerve centre of administrative organisation, where the policies of the government in different fields are conceived, thought-out, shaped and issued out to different levels of the administration in the directorates, attached offices, divisions, districts, sub-divisions, police stations, and villages. It will be the principal instrument of the government of Bangladesh and is responsible for administrating the different subjects in all fields of governmental activity, national and international. It is in the secretariat that policies of the government are formulated and co-ordinate.

 Now, there are two main levels of the Secretariat-Central and Provincial. In Bangladesh there will be only one main secretariat, that is, the Secretariat of the Government of Bangladesh. The Provincial Secretariat will be absorbed into it. There will be no need for a provincial Secretariat. In the British days, the Secretariat was arranged in department, each administrating a specified subject, forming the portfolio of a member of the Governor-General's Executive Council. On transfer of power in io947, the departments were renamed as Ministries at the central level and in the provinces these were known as Secretariat Departments. In Bangladesh the secretariat will be organized in and arranged in Ministries, each administering specified subject or subjects in charge of a Minister at the top, who will be responsible to the National Parliament.