The Civil Service Government and civil service are inter-related and therefore an inseparable entity. But the performance determines policy, the body of civil servants carries it out. The finest programmes will get bogged of the latter can bring credit or discredit to the former. 'How can this be?' one may ask . Government Our desired rate of development must not be impeded because we are obliged to carry white-collar down if the civil servants who direct their practical execution are incompetent and without dedication. government employees who will put in a standard stint of office hours and then forget all about the job; who will never put a foot wrong but who will never have an original idea; who will think the task performed with the writing of a letter ; who will be mainly more concerned with status and prestige han with helping the public; whose fear of responsibility will always prompt passing on of decision and action; who will model themselves on the umbrella-carrying civil servant of an established state ather than on the pioneer worker of a new and developing country. Security of employment is a fine principle and one which I endorse, but I do not think a civil servant in this country today has greater right to security than the fisherman, the cocoa-grower, the driver, the post worker, the teacher, the road labourer or market woman. I am averse to our civil servants being lodged in the state apparatus like a nail without a head: once you drive it in, you cannot pull it out. Government must retain the right of dismissal, and the civil servant must be made to realise that he can be dismissed if he does not perform the job required of him. Questions (a) Why can the finest government programmes fail to succeed? Why will a civil servant not have an original idea? (b) (c) (d) What is the civil servant 'alleged' to be primarily concerned with? What according to the writer is guaranteed for the civil servant? (e) (f) (g) How does the writer think the government should deal with the civil servant? ...like a nail without a head, 'What figure of speech is this? L (i) (ii) who will think the task performed with the writing of a letter..." What is the grammatical name given to this expression? What is its function?.
