Fraser Report Report of the India Police Commission 1965

Abstract

A good deal has been said in forewords to earlier publications .in- this series about the reprint policy of National Institute of Public Administration, Karachi. Briefly, the object has been described “ as- an attempt- to make available old but extant Government literature for reference, research and study” . The Institute sees itself in the role of a clearing house for such, literature in pursuit of one of the main objectives in its charter 'viz. dissemination of' information about principles and practices of Public Administration and, in. particular, development and publication of teaching and research material in Pakistan’s experience in this field. The literature reprinted by,the Institute,so far in pursuance o f this policy w^s, ip the. main, about organization and procedures -,<2f the. Central Gpvernment—specially the secretariat procedures. The ,series. started with the Tottenham Reports 1945-46 ^Reprint Series No. 1) on the need for reorganization of the Central Government as seen by British experts in administration in the last years before Independence; and -then it traveled back, in terms of the time periods covered: the Maxwell ■Report 1937 (Reprint Serie.s No. 2) dealing with reorganization o f the secretariat o f the Government of India in the light of constitutional developments embodied in the Government of India Act, 1935; the Wheeler Report 1935-36 (Reprint Series , No. 3) a study of the Secretariat System and the mode of staffing it; and the Llewellyn Smith Report 1920 (Reprint Series No. 4) by a Committee appointed, ^yith the introduction of the M ontague— Chelmsford Reforms of 19,19, to examine and review I contemporary secretariat systems, institutions and procedures. .These publications provided insights into the administrative the system of Pakistan in its historical perspective, while the last reprint of , the series published earlier this year—the Jefferies Report 1952- (Reprint Series No. 5) explains the basis of the development of the 0 ; & M- concept in Pakistan. All of these however d^al (with f some aspects of that apex of the administrative machinery in Pakistan viz. the Central Secretariat,