MATHUR, Hari Mohan

La formation des administrateurs en Inde - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1982

After Independence the concept of training of civil servants was seriously questioned. What was the aim of training? Indeed, the role of administration now is fundamentaly different from what is used to be before Independence. Its main attributes then concentrated on taxes and the maintenance of order; civil servants kept aloof, and the people feared them. Things have changed considerably ever since. Civil servants are expected more and more take on responsabilities in the field of social and economic change and development. They are now closer to the people; they take part in promoting plans and development projects applied down to the farthest away villages inside the country