The need of English in public administration

Abstract

This research is a study of "The Need of English in Public Administration". This study aimed to find out how much important the possession of English is for the people working in the field of public administration. It also tries to throw light on the particular works in comparison to others for which the necessity of English always strikes. This study was carried out using both the primary and secondary sources of data. All the data were collected through questionnaire. For the primary source of data the researcher selected six different government offices of Kathamndu valley. Five section officers from each office were selected purposively as the respondents and of them three officials were those who had the service duration of more than five years and two were those having service duration of less than five years. From the study it has been found that the bureaucrats need English in almost each of their works. Where the knowledge of English becomes a must for them is in communicating with foreign bureaucrats, attending seminars, meetings, presenting country profiles, writing reports, proposals, seminar papers, and so on. This study mainly includes four chapters. The first chapter introduces the study which consists of general background, review of the related literature objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter mainly concerns with the methodology used in the study: the source of data, sampling procedure, tools of data collection and limitations of the study. Likewise, the third chapter of the study comprises analysis and interpretation of the data. The fourth chapter introduces the product of the analysis and interpretation of the data, i.e. findings of the study and simultaneously some recommendations on the basis of that finding. The final section presents the references and appendices which are very much important for the validation of the research.