Despite having economic growth we have disparities in our system that include gender, regional, rural and urban interpersonal inequalities. As a result, the benefits of economic growth have not been distributed equitably and 20 percent people command half of the income of the country.
Dr Ishrat Hussain, Chairman, National Commission for Government Reforms (NCGR) stated at a Seminar on ''Civil Services Reforms'', organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), here on Thursday. The other speakers include; Mosharraf Zaidi, Governance Advisor, UK Department For International Development (DFID) and Musharraf Rasool Cyan, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Atlanta USA.
He said, having accepted vision of 2030 for Pakistan to become a developed nation we are opting to become a part of global world that compels certain imperatives which demand certain in our system changes.
He said the organisation was working on three principles, which include restructuring of the civil services, reorganising the federal, provincial and district levels and re-engineering of business process. Dr Ishrat Hussain listed essential components in designing a reformed civil service system:
He said, career-based promotions, decent wages and compensation packages would help to eliminate 80 percent corruption from the civil services. He said that, the phenomenon of privatisation has taken long roots across the globe as it reduces the vulnerability of the governments. Several years back we paid Rs 100 billion against the deficits of several departments now with the privatisation of these departments things have changed.