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Bhutan Civil Service
Bhutan's government employees have been under the
authority of
the Royal Civil Service Commission since its establishment
in 1982.
Part of the commission's mandate was to reform government
service.
With assistance from the UNDP, the commission held a
conference in
1986 and assessed the civil service. Plans were laid out
for
providing in-country and foreign training, improving
training
effectiveness, and organizing a system by which personnel
and
training management would be linked within departments.
Civil
service rules adopted in 1989 established procedures for
government
employment and prohibited civil servants from being
assigned to
their home districts. Starting in 1989, candidates for
government
service were given only one opportunity to pass the civil
service
selection examination. Once they were selected, promotions
were
available through seventeen grades, from the lowest clerk
to just
below the deputy minister level.
In an efficiency drive in the late 1980s, the civil
service was
reduced through reorganization (the government was scaled
down from
thirty-three entities at and above the department level in
1985 to
nineteen in 1989), reassignment to local government,
retirements,
and "voluntary resignations." In 1987 there were 13,182
civil
service workers, but by 1989 the number of regular civil
service
employees had dropped to 11,099. An additional 3,855
persons worked
under government contract or as "wage" employees
throughout all
parts of the government. More than 1,650 of them, however,
were
employed by government-run industries, and another 848
worked for
the Chhukha Hydel Project. The total number of persons
working
under the civil service in July 1989 was 15,802. Later in
1989,
however, all public and joint sector corporation employees
were
removed from the civil service rolls. Because of the
national
shortage of skilled workers, 3,137 members of the civil
service in
1989 were reportedly "nonnationals," mostly ethnic
Nepalese.
Data as of September 1991
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