ABSTRACT
From the very beginning the college has kept in step with the successive Five-Year Plans in meeting the respective requirements for improving and strengthening the public-administration machinery to meet the development goals. For supporting the aims and objectives of the first three plans (1955-60; 1960-5; 1965-70), the main emphasis of the college was on equipping the senior civil servants with the capability to plan wisely and execute efficiently the development programmes for enabling the newly born state of Pakistan to achieve a fast rate of growth. While this objective was achieved fairly satisfactorily by the end of the third plan, economic inequalities and social disparities had started becoming inconveniently noticeable by the time the fourth Five-Year Plan (1970-5) was conceived. The secession of East Pakistan, the energy crisis, the socialistic philosophies of the regime in power, and large-scale nationalisation, were the highlights of this plan period. Equitable and orderly growth, social justice, Pakistan ideology, the relevance of Pakistan ideology to the socialistic philosophy of the party in power, efficient management of the nationalised sector and public enterprises, and re-organisation in services and Governmental structure, therefore, became the main topics of study and discussions in the college as of direct relevance to the development process of Pakistan during that period.
