A New Civil Service Philosophy

P R Dubhashi THE Report of the Fulton Committee on the Civil Service in Britain is a revolutionary document, which brings to bear a new outlook on the role of civil servants in the modern state. Though the Committee was concerned with conditions in Britain, its analysis of the tasks which public administration in a modern state has to discharge and its diagnosis of the strength and weakness of the civil service in the discharge of these tasks have a familiar ring for Indian conditions. The reforms and remedies the Committee has suggested, therefore, deserve careful consideration with a view to adapting some of them for Indian administrative reform.