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Administrative Reforms

Administrative reform is concerned with the process and the specific devices, techniques, systems and procedures of national federal government which identify, prepare, support or put into effect improvements in administration or the machinery of government. The term ‘administrative reform’ applies to improvements in executive machinery ranging all the way from fundamental realignments in the structure or the government, to relatively minor changes in the methods of carrying on work within a department or ministry.

The term ‘administrative reform’ is used in common parlance interchangeably with ‘administrative change’ and ‘administrative reorganization’, but there is a slight difference between all these words. ‘Reform’ ...