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Laos moves to streamline apparatus of state agencies

Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has asked the country’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) to take prompt action to streamline the apparatus of state organisations so as to improve the performance of officials and public employees.
Laos moves to streamline apparatus of state agencies ảnh 1Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith (Photo: VNA)

Vientiane (VNA) – Lao Prime Minister ThonglounSisoulith has asked the country’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) to take promptaction to streamline the apparatus of state organisations so as to improve theperformance of officials and public employees.

At a MoHA meeting on February 14, the PM saidLaos currently has 184,871 public employees, accounting for 2.8 percent of thepopulation. That excludes members of armed forces that consist of military,police, and local militia.

As such, the rate of public employees in Laos isthe second highest among the 10 members of the Association of Southeast AsianNations (ASEAN), following Brunei.

He also pointed out several works that needspecial attention and prompt implementation in order to swiftly streamlinestate agencies’ apparatus.

Facing the increasingly inflated but inefficientapparatus of state agencies, the Lao Government decided to reduce the number ofpublic employees recruited annually from over 10,000 to 3,000 in 2018, and thisyear down to 1,500.

PM Sisoulith said the recruitment quotareduction aims to help state agencies recruit truly capable people, thushelping to improve their efficiency and ease the burden on the state budget.

In 2018, the Lao PM issued a decree on streamlining themachinery of all state agencies and assigned the MoHA with the implementation.–VNA
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