RARE 1956 MALAYA REPORT ON THE COMMITTEE ON MALAYANISATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE
Item History & Price
FEDERATION OF MALAYA
REPORT ONTHECOMMITTEEONMALAYANISATIONOFTHEPUBLIC SERVICE
The Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1956
Book Details
1st.. Edition. 143pp. with some charts and tables.
Size of Book: 25cm x 15cm/9.75in x 6.25in
Book Description
Very good (+) publisher’s original thin light blue card covers with titles in black on the front cover.
The text is in excellent contain with no foxing, marks or other blemishes.
About t...his Book
The Malayanisation Commission was appointed by the Labour Front government on 28th. June 1955 to study and recommend measures to speed up the Malayanisation of the civil service. Malayanisation had been an ongoing process in the civil service since 1946 when the Colonial Office released the White Paper entitled Organisation of the Colonial Service (Command Paper No. 197, 1946). The paper stated that progress towards self-government could only be realised in Singapore if the civil service was adapted to local conditions and staffed as much as possible by local people. Despite having a framework to work on localising the civil service, the pace of reform was generally slow.
To speed up the Malayanisation process, the Malayanisation Commission laid out a number of recommendations in its final report (Command Paper no. 65 of 1956), which was submitted to the Legislative Assembly in May 1956.
The key recommendations included bringing more local officers into the upper ranks of the civil service, and reconstituting the Public Service Commission so that it had executive control over the appointments and promotions of civil servants.At the time, the PSC was only an advisory body and did not make appointments or promotions in the civil service but advised the colonial government on such matters.
After the government had adopted the recommendations of the Malayanisation Commission, the pace of localisation in the civil service quickened. By the end of 1958, the PSC annual report showed that only 182 expatriate officers were in service, fewer than the 387 that had originally been expected to remain. Although these vacated posts were subsequently filled by local officers, there were initial difficulties in finding qualified and experienced candidates for the positions. The PSC was also reconstituted in January 1957 as recommended by the Malayanisation Commission. To build up the local talent pool, the government created the Singapore State scholarship to attract and train officers for the public service. The PSC was responsible for selecting the candidates and administering the scholarship.