‘’A number of cross-cutting issues limit the ability of Baluchistan’s public administration to deliver good services, including the size and structure of bureaucracy, the extent of merit based recruitment, the quality of career management, the degree of administrative devolution, political fragmentation and tribal identity.

For example, some 28 percent of sanctioned posts in 2005 were of scale 1, indicative of the low-skill level of the bureaucracy, and the tenure of the many secretaries is far below the recommended three years, suggesting a high degree of politicization of the bureaucracy.’’

This is an observation of Pakistan Balochistan Economic Report, from periphery to core, prepared in the month of May 2008 it was a collective effort by World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Government of Balochistan, to highlight the issues in respect of governance in the province. The contents remain guiding principles even this day,

after the passage of a decade. it’s the right time to take stock of the matter, the advancement made in the structure, performance and working conditions as well as whether the organization has got a more symmetrical and pyramid shape to remain in control of the things, respond the ever increasing needs of the society or remains as wayward as ever it had been.

Indeed, the size of the organization has increased over the years, whether in the right direction and proportion or otherwise is a food for thought. Posts have been created, unmindful to the social good, service delivery and revenue generation, often to drain the public money in waste, over the creation of class four jobs for a happy constituency.

Meanwhile, an invisible process to expend, up-grade, right size downsize the so-called oversize or unwieldy institutions has always been there, but without clear aims, rather taken for granted. To utilize the public money over the size of the institutions has been the sole prerogative of the Ministers, Finance Department with a bit of input from the Administrative Departments as well, however never with a comprehensive strategy to steer the departments out of the crises, address the needs with a goal oriented approach, to link it with the organization and method of services.

In addition to other things, the procedures of the organization have had to be simplified, taken out of proverbial conundrums to deliver the goods. The section in Services and General Administration Department related to ‘organization and method’ of Government of Balochistan has been kept dormant over the years as the lack of capacity never allows enough space and time to think over the structural changes over due for a more responsive system.

The policy cycle defined as policy, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and again the input accomplished on the basis of evaluation becomes part of a policy formulation, in an open organization. This useful exercise is never bothered to be considered seriously to have a clear way forward, I fit had been done over the years, might have had helped. The only job done by the regulators of the provincial services is the business as usual to do transfer and postings.

A cursory count of the achievements made by Government of Balochistan are the composition of Government of Balochistan, Rules of Business in the year 2012.Formation of Balochistan Public Procurement Regulatory Authority – with the objective to streamline the financial matters with transparency remains under staff and Balochistan Revenue Authority with the limited purpose of more receipts out of the government bills.

While the losses suffered are the abolition of the District Government System, the non- existence of the cell once existed in the Energy Department to regulate the issues of oil and Gas. A dysfunctional technical wing of the Planning and Development Department .Added in the difficulties is the Eighteenth Constitutional Amendment which over burdened Government of Balochistan with thousands of posts as a liability without any pay package to flow from the Federal Government for their devolved services.

Besides that, it is strange to know, given the previous year figures, Government of Balochistan is earning around the 3% of the overall budget allocated, while seeks the rest 97% budget allocated from the Finance Division of the Federal Government in one or the other name.

At the top bureaucracy still remains small enough to be counted on finger tips, with a heavy bottom of useless workers. Merit based recruitment is yet to be initiated to fill up the thousands vacant posts. As far career management, all the cadres suffers on account of the creative less thoughts, as example the 72 Assistant Executive Officer’s appointed in 2001 are not getting space for utilization of their services with a carrier path.

The issues related to capacity building are as chronic as they have been. Administrative devolution to enhance efficiency has got shrink. Political fragmentation has spread over. Tribal identity in politics and services ensures to lead the way and a bureaucracy supposed to be without political affiliations nowhere exists in reality, is not the plan for public.