This paper discusses the institutional structures of the civil service. The author traces four periods in this service, pre-1971, 1972-1977, 1978- 1999 and 2000 onwards. In the first time period the author maintains the service worked well. In the second, the paradigm was vitiated. In the third period the anarchy continued by default. And in the last period the anarchy continued by accident. The author attempts to illustrate the growing disincentives in the paradigm for efficiency.