Research Scholar, Department of Public Administration, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Online published on 28 June, 2013.
‘In a very significant sense, the identity of every organization… is lodged in its professional staff. Members, stockholders or citizens may control the organization but they cannot do it, the staff is the organization’ –Inis Claude
The success of any organization depends upon its dynamic and skilled personnel. Out of the 4 M's; Management, Money, Material and Men, it is the men who matters the ‘most’ and in the similar context most also refers to adequacy of manpower besides their preferred abilities. The topic assumes more of importance in reference to local bodies as these are the delivery points. In the present work, an effort has been made to take stock of human resources in the Municipal Corporations in the back drop of unfilled positions.
