Sindh Public Service Commission


The Sindh Public Service Commission is a provincial agency of Government of Sindh in Pakistan that is responsible recruiting civil servants and bureaucrats in Government of Sindh.
In the parliamentary democracy of Pakistan, the ultimate responsibility for running the administration rests with the elected representatives of the people which are the ministers. But the handful of ministers cannot be expected to deal personally with the manifold problems of modern administration. Thus the ministers lay down the policy and it is for the civil servants to carry out this policy. The Sindh province with 45 million population has over 50,000 public service employees including government

History

The Public Service Commission was set up for the first time in British India in 1926. After independence, the Commission was established in Pakistan in 1947 under the provision of Act 1935. At present, the commission is functioning under article 242 of the constitution of Pakistan. It has been provided autonomy under the Rules of Business, 1973 and FPSC Regulations, 1978 in its working. The Commission has also been given administrative as well as, to some extent, financial autonomy to perform its functions independently.
The Commission consists of a Chairman and Members. The Chairman is appointed by the Governor of Sindh, in his discretion, under Article 242 of the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973. The members are appointed by the Governor with the advice of Chief Minister. The Commission is assisted by the Secretary who provides a link among the Commission, its Secretariat and the Government Agencies.

Power, purpose and responsibilities

The responsibility of the civil services is to run the administration of Sindh. The province is managed through a number of provincial Government agencies in accordance with the policy directions given by the ministries.

Reforms and corruption

As of 2014, in a duration of two three years over 213 cases are at different stages of investigation by Sindh Police against civil servants including political corruption.
The SPSC is now a controversial body after the resignation of its chairman, Justice Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan on 14 January 2015 due to immense pressure from the Sindh government to undermine merit. Also there are a number of corruption cases pending with the National Accountability Bureau against former chairmans Muhammad Hasan Bhutto and Syed Irshad Ali Shah.
In 2006, the Chief Minister Sindh, Arbab Ghulam Rahim opened an enquiry on Muhammad Hasan Bhutto and said that he had proof of nepotism, financial and administrative corruption against Bhutto who as chairman colluded with ill-reputed high officials, politicians and touts and tempered with recruitment record of the applicants for the posts of deputy district attorney.
He had also recommended the Sindh Governor under Public Service Commission Act and Constitution of Pakistan Article 105 to appoint a judge of the Sindh High Court to carry out through inquiry into the allegations levelled against Bhutto.
He said that Bhutto in connivance with Controller of Examination Umer Zainor changed examination and interview records and thus played dirty with the fate of honest applicants.
It is also said that Irshad Ali Shah was involved in the controversy in which he had given his son extra marks as he had failed in the SPSC competitive examination.

Governance

The highest ranking civil servant is the Sindh Cabinet Secretary. He is ex-officio the chief of the Sindh Public Service Commission and head of all civil services under the rules of business of the Government of Sindh. The position holder is accountable for ensuring that the Civil Service is equipped with the skills and capability to meet the everyday challenges it faces and that civil servants work in a fair and decent environment.

List of Chairman

Temporal OrderName of ChairmanFromTo
1Sir Hugh B Clynton
1 April 193731 March1942
2Sir J.A Madan
1 April 194231 March 1947
3Y.A Godbole
Chairman, Sindh Bombay Public Service Commission)		1 April 19471 August 1947
4K.B. Muhammad Diam Siddiqui
Chairman, Sindh Bombay Public Service Commission)		1 August 194710 January 1948
5Dr. H. B. Hingorani
11 January 19483 October 1956
6Justice Feroze Nana Ghulam Ally
24 December 197020 April 1972
7G. D Memon
2 May 197222 March 1974
8G. M. Sheikh21 May 19745 October 1977
9Justice Kadir Nawaz Awan6 October 197726 July 1978
10Imdad Ali Agha7 August 19786 August 1984
11Justice Ghulam Muhammed Korejo12 August 198412 August 1989
12Justice Mushtak Ali Kazi3 December 198931 December 1992
13Muhammad Rawal Varymani21 February 199231 July 1994
14Engineer Manzoor Ahmed Qureshi1 August 199415 March 1996
15Kazi Abdul Qadir13 June 199629 January 1997
16Justice Abdul Qadir Shaikh1 February 199728 January 1998
17M. M. Usmani28 January 199827 January 2003
18Muhammad Hasan Bhutto28 March 200327 March 2008
19Muhammad Javed Ashraf Hussain28 March 200826 May 2008
20S. N. Abbasi27 May 20082 November 2010
21Syed Irshad Ali Shah1 January 20112 March 2014
22Justice Dr Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan9 June 201415 January 2015
23Muhammad Saleem Bhonur20 January 2015November 2016
24M.H Bhutto--
25Mr. Noor Muhammad Jadmani31 March 2017incumbent