The Public Service Commission of Kenya VIS-A-VIS the Union Public Service Commission: A Comparative Study

Ratemo Tom Junior

Volume : II, Issue : VII, July - 2013

The Public Service Commission of Kenya VIS-A-VIS the Union Public Service Commission: A Comparative Study

Ratemo Tom Junior

Abstract :

Both the Constitutions of Kenya and India indisputably require the State to secure to all its respective citizens, “social justice, economic and political; equality of status and opportunity, and the rule of the law.” The performance of this task therefore, calls for many hands and this can only be possible through recruitment of competent State civil servants. Recruitment process is generally carried out by independent constitutional bodies i.e., the Public Service Commissions. This paper establishes numerous similarities and dissimilarities existing in the civil service law both in Kenya and India as it relates specifically with the establishment, composition, terms of office, removal of members, functions and powers of the Public Service Commissions within the jurisdiction of Kenya and India.