The Najib administration revealed today that it had allocated a whopping RM3.956 billion this year to finance operations in the Prime Minister’s Department.
The number of civil servants in the PM’s Department has also increased from 21,045 in 2003 to 43,544 in 2010. This is more than a whopping 100% increase despite the government pledge to streamline its administration through e-government.
Some of the agencies created include Pemandu (Implementation and Coordination Unit), and the National Economic Advisory Council (NEAC). Six existing agencies which include the National Security Council (MKN) and Islamic Development Department (JAKIM) experienced an increase in manpower. Even ex-premier Abdullah Badawi's office is being maintained by the PM's Dept. What is the rational?
Yet, the government is adamant that this country cannot continue to subsidy some of the essential items and it had called on the people to 'adjust their lifestyle'.
At the rate we are going, the sand raiders will be the people and not any illegal smugglers. People soon be making a beeline to make mud pies using sand and mud.
Honestly, why must the PM's Dept. need a whopping 43k plus employees? What are the KPIs? On top of this, the number of ministries keep growing.
We are in a fix. The civil service is a fixed deposit of the ruling coalition. How can we expect the government to restructure it?
Perhaps Idris Jala can offer us some solutions.
Now, the PM must answer why he needs so many manpower for his department. It is supposed to be just a department. But its annual allocation is 10 times more than Penang's annual allocation from the federal government. Something is very very wrong here.
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Najib wasted RM9 million per day/3.9 billion per year and he's talking about a saving of 750 million from the subsidy cuts??? Now tell me who is the gluttonous monster? The one who spends 3,900 millions to run a dept or the rakyat who uses a measly 750 million of their own hard earned "taxed money" for subsidy? To those ill informed Malaysian who voted BN last time, if still you haven't learnt this bitter lesson of placing a greedy and corrupt entity into power then you definitely deserved to be enslaved and impoverished.
Nick.
Mr.Khoo,
One,the PM has a lot of baggages.He has to pay them for silence.And it would not be from his own pocket!So, creation of posts in the Admin.
Two,what Bala is saying in France is real damaging and so he has to prop up his image and admin locally.
These $$$ are fixed expenses!!!!
All this at the Rakyat expense lah!
What can Idris do??? He has to look for another job if he objects.
1Malaysia is an eye-wash.
I estimated that even if you minus away the salaries of the staff,including the PM and the ministers(which is about 3 hundred millions),the balance of about RM3.7billion for other operating expenses is still a big question mark! The govt is asking the people to be thrifty and spend wisely,but on the other hand,they always give themselves huge allocation for spending! Where is the fairness?
4 Billion bucks just to upkeep the PeeM Dept. My goodness, with this kind of money, it can do wonders for the rakyat. But, sadly, these UMNO head and his cronies will find all sorts of way to try to increase the civil service so that they are guarantee of their votes in future elections. HJow despicable can they be. Our civil services is already bloated with thousands of dead woods and gaji butas. Amazing but not surprising, those Umnoputras are trying to increase it to their advantage using the rakyat money. Actually we can forget about KPIs etc..by our PeeeeeM. It was all wayang kulit. And Bolehland at its best.
Why are we complaining?
You vote for these BN people and put them into power to screw your arses.
Don't complain, blame yourself.
nic@
"To those ill informed Malaysian who voted BN last time, if still you haven't learnt this bitter lesson of placing a greedy and corrupt entity into power then you definitely deserved to be enslaved and impoverished."
That will never happen. The people who vote BN in are either orang kampung or on the BN gravy train.
For the orang kampung, just point to the closest chinese person and say "behold orang china itu is the cause of all your troubles" - Najib style manglish and hold up a keris. Problem solved.
For the BN gravy train, just make sure the train goes on.
BN is safe.
To get some hard facts about exactly what the PM Dept allocation is spent on, read Teh Chi Chang's excellent book, The Budget: How our Govt is spending OUR Money.
I reviewed it in Off The Edge a few months ago and it is easy to read, highly accessible for the layperson and extremely informative. You can buy it at any MPH bookstore and trust me, you will learn a lot.
For instance, you will learn that the PM's Dept is in charge of a lot of areas that properly speaking SHOULD NOT be under his purview, including dubious areas like religion, Penang state Malay interests, etc. etc.
And the worst part about the PM's Dept is that it is not transparent (well, nothing much is these days anyway) and is not held accountable to any other dept/ministry. So, there is complete freedom to do things that no-one knows about.
Get the book--you will learn things about the Msian budget that will make you immediately vote for Pakatan Rakyat.
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