Building a World-Class Civil Service for Twenty-First Century India

Building a World-Class Civil Service for Twenty-First Century India

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-272

  Das, S K ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Accountability; Bureaucracy; Civil service; Civil service law; India; Performance; Reforms; Risk management; Twenty first century

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858591925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198068662.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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