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Public administration in imprecating crises: In light of COVID-19 in Pakistan

Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of public administration, University of Sindh, Pakistan
  • 2Department of public administration, University of Sindh, Pakistan
  • 3Department of public administration, University of Sindh, Pakistan

Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 11, Issue (1), Pages 41-46, January,14 (2022)

Abstract

The emergence of pandemic has validated that natural calamities and unexpected threat to beat effortlessly the present political and administrative system around the world. This study reveals the pandemic to delineate how it is responded by the public institutions during the emergency and demonstrated outmatched threats and difficulties to be faced by administrative system particularly in Pakistan. Observing the crises in the field of public administration under the current natural calamity the scholars’ contribution to chart out the administrative deterrence and crisis management must be valued to calculate the tackling implications of the pandemic on the administrative process and diffusion of the public service delivery. At the foremost edge of public administration research and practice to serve the stakeholders, and citizens is based on the assessment of the quick governance to compete and execute the agenda of the public policy in the country. This research also highlights the issues faced by government in the context of the COVID-19 and the Federal instructions to provincial governments to encounter the dilemma by implementing the designed policy making in the way to achieve the best interest of nation. In a crisis of extreme emergency and uncertainty during the pandemic outbreak the regulatory policy was based on temporary and expedited procedures. We focus on regulatory policy of the government, implications of the pandemic on the public officials service delivery and produce the key measures under crisis condition based on temporary and fast tracking procedures to meet confronts of the natural calamity and ensure the governance capacity and participate with future projection and its developments.

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