PMS is a government service, like CSS, but its goal is to focus on provincial management. The provincial governments of Pakistan constituted it with the aim of enhancing the bureaucratic service framework in the provinces. After the announcement by S&GAD Punjab, the PMS was established in the province of Punjab on January 17, 2014. The Punjab province and other provinces are mostly administered by the Federal Bureaucracy, particularly the Pakistan Administrative Service (formerly known as the District Management Group or DMG).