It is a comprehensive research to make suggestion about how the public services work more efficiently and to examine the division of the duties inter-institutions sub-organisations of the Republic of Turkey central government and realized from 1962 to 1963 according to decision of the Cabinet.
The research based on primarily studies by TODAİE experts carried out by the collaboration of TODAİE, State Planning Organisation (DPT), the Government Staff Office, the ministry and offices related to the University of Ankara . The studies carried out by thirty-three researchers and twelve administrative staffs and final report was published in 1963. The MEHTAP (Central Government Organisation Research Project) Report one of the most important elements of the Turkish administrative researches history firstly gives information about the general structure of the central government organisation, and then mentions about the working conditions of the Board of Ministers, the Prime Ministry Organisation, the Minister of State and the Deputy Prime Ministers and sub-organisations of the Prime Ministry and situation of the autonomous institutions and makes suggestions. And then the statute problems in foundation or commission of the administrative institutions and regional organisation of central government are explained critically. In the second part of the research common duties of all units are revised and in the following parts, the duties of the central government are studied in four groups. In these parts, service types are taken as bases rather than ministries one by one or institutions. After then, the duties must be undertaken by central governments as public services but fulfilled incompletely are given and the reasons (inadequate staff, absence of orientation and supervision, defects of organisation, bureaucracy and its sub-organisations, ill-structured centralization) for these are defined. At the end of the Report, the suggestions about restructure of the board of ministers, the Prime Ministry, ministries and its sub-organisations, autonomous institutions and the regional units of the central government organisations are summarized.
lthough some of the solutions suggested to problems defined in the report are assumed to put into practice in the course of time, the significant parts continue to remain as goals to achieve and repeated in the researches such as the Administrative Reform Consultation Board Report (1972) and the KAYA Report (1991). Eleven years after publication of the report, a research which evaluate to which extend the included suggestions have been put into practice carried out by N. Dinçer and T. Ersoy.
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