Structure of Government-Introduction to Public Administration-Lecture Handout, Exercises of Introduction to Public Administration

Download Structure of Government-Introduction to Public Administration-Lecture Handout and more Exercises Introduction to Public Administration in PDF only on Docsity! Introduction To Public Administration–MGT111 VU © Copyright Virtual University of Pakistan 42 LESSON 12 STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT At the end of the lecture the students will be able to understand: 1. The Concept of Rules of Business 2. The structure of government which comprise ministries, divisions, attached department 3. What are functions? An example of one of the ministry/division will be given explain functions of a ministry: In the last lecture the structure of government was explained as per article 91(1) of the constitution. The cabinet is headed by the Prime Minister who is the Executive head of the government. It has been stated that the president is the Head of the State and the prime minister helps him in decision making and it is the Prime Minister who is responsible for running of government. Thus, the structure of government can be understood from Figure A and Figure B. Figure A shows the relationship of the Constitution with the legislature which comprise the National and Provincial assemblies and the Senate. That is the Constitution gives the structure, formations, functioning and methods of these institutions. Then, as shown in figure B the constitution also provides for the structure, functions and operations of the three branches of government i.e. legislature, judiciary and executive. It is mentioned here that while the Constitution provides broad framework of government, the operational level functioning are regulated by the specific Acts which have to be placed before the legislature and approved. Structure of Government Figure A Figure B Constitution National Assembly Senate Provincial Assembly Constitution National/Provincial Assemblies Courts The Executive docsity.com Introduction To Public Administration–MGT111 VU © Copyright Virtual University of Pakistan 43 Organization Chart of Government As mentioned earlier that the president is the head of the State and Prime Minister (PM) is the head of Executive is shown in the Figure. The PM heads the Cabinet and the Cabinet comprises ministers. The number of Ministers keeps varying. Some time it is 29; sometime 16 and sometimes 39. These ministers head the ministries. Rules of Business The question that can arise is, how ministries work. The Constitution of the country under Article 90-99 states the formulation of ‘Rules of Business’. This means that Rules have to be framed for the working of the ministries and divisions. What is Business? ‘Business’ means all work done by the Federal Government, and the Federal Government means all the ministries, divisions and attached departments and autonomous bodies etc. Thus Rules of Business explain the responsibilities of the Secretary who heads the division. It also delineates the ministries and the division/department under each ministry. Just as there are Rules of Business for the Federal government, there are Rules of Business for the provincial governments Ministries of Federal Government (39) Although it has be stated that in 2004 there are 39 ministries, but only the list of few selected ministries is given below: 1. Cabinet Secretariat 2. Ministry of Commerce 3. Ministry of Culture, Sports & Youth Affairs 4. Ministry of Communication 5. Ministry of Defence Production 6. Ministry of Finance & Revenue 7. Ministry of Information & Technology 8. Ministry of Interior 9. Ministry of Housing and Works The Cabinet Secretariat, is the Secretariat of the Cabinet, which maintain all its paper work. Ministries cited above are indicative of the kind of work that government do. Structure of Ministry It would be in the fitness of things to first define ministry A Ministry is Division or Group of Division. The Division is entrusted with one task: For example: Ministry of Finance has divisions. The division are shown in the Figure are Finance Division, Economic Affairs Division, statistics Division and Revenue Division. President Head of the State Prime Minister Chief Executive Cabinet Comprising Ministers (39) docsity.com