ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the students of administrative reform in Bangladesh not to ignore the history and machinery of accountability in Bangladesh. It focuses on and analyses key aspects of this history so as to clarify the institutions and measures that are part of the machinery of experience to ensure effective, fair and efficient policy and programme implementation. The main features are that there has been a need to make the government accountable since British rule; accordingly the machinery for public management has been set up from time to time, yet there have been problems with accountability for government in Bangladesh. After achieving independence from Pakistan in December 1971, the main concern of the new government was to transform the existing structure of provincial administration into Bangladesh Public Administration and develop institutions for a government accountable to the people at large. The administrative system of Bangladesh is organised hierarchically: everyone is accountable to his administrative superior for his activities.
