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Urban Local Government Personnel Administration

Efficient and effective functioning of any organization depends mainly on the competence of the staff employed for implementing its policies and programmes. Herman Finer has rightly observed, ‘adequately organized the political philosophy, high leadership and command, these would be of no effect without the body of official experts in applying the accumulated supply of power and wisdom to the particular cases permanently and specially employed to do so.’1 It is more so in the case of municipal governments, as they are intimately concerned with and are responsible for the provision of facilities so vital for healthy living. An efficient administrative, professional, and technical staff at the municipal ...

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