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In modern times merit system of recruitment was first introduced in :
Answer: A
The merit system was first introduced in Prussia.
In the eighteenth century the Prussian kings, Frederick William I and Frederick the Great, built a professional bureaucracy recruited through examinations and trained in the cameral sciences. Prussia is therefore usually cited as the first modern state to recruit civil servants on merit.
The other countries came later. In India, open competition for the Indian Civil Service began in 1855 under the Charter Act of 1853. In England, the Northcote-Trevelyan Report (1853) proposed it and open competition became the rule by the Order in Council of 1870. In the USA, the Pendleton Act of 1883 introduced the merit system to replace the spoils system.
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