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Topic: Efficiency in Administration: Measures Required to Enhance Efficiency in Administration R.D. Sharma
Introduction
Efficiency is a goal as well as a value of any administrative organisation. Organisations whose goals-achieving capacity nears hundred or littleness, can be conveniently termed as efficient. Efficiency is both a characteristic as well as a value or even an ideal to be achieved by an organisation. Those public services and organisations may be bureaucratic one, are bound to be efficient which according to Max Weber are recruited on the basis of ideal-type-model.
Efficiency is a criterion of administrative evaluation. It is essentially criterion of making rational choices. Leonard D. White had used criterion of efficiency in defining public administration.
Any attempt to probe efficiency-an important area of public services, is fraught with innumerable difficulties because the genere of political representative of modern Indian and even the main-mandarins are less enthusiastic towards improving efficiency of the civil services and devise, seriously implement methods of increase it.
Efficiency has been central objective of governmental reform. The reform movement in public administration had emphasised that efficiency had something to do with the effective allocation and control of government expenditures.