Bangkok Post
Pakorn calls for more efficient civil service
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Deputy Prime Minister Pakorn Nilprapunt has called for an overhaul of the country’s civil service, focusing on efficiency rather than “bureaucratic reform”.
Key facts
- Recurring expenditure including civil service salaries accounts for about 73% of the 3.8-trillion-baht national budget in the current fiscal year, while around 20% goes to investment and the remainder to debt servicing
- Deputy Prime Minister Pakorn Nilprapunt has called for an overhaul of the country’s civil service, focusing on efficiency rather than “bureaucratic reform”.
- Speaking in the first episode of the government’s new weekly TV programme, Talking with the Anutin Cabinet, he said the term “bureaucratic reform”
- The goal is to raise the budget share available for investment and development from 20% to 30%, including preparations for natural disasters.
- Once the relevant legislation takes effect, he said service-processing times should be reduced by 20–30%.
Summary
Speaking in the first episode of the government’s new weekly TV programme, Talking with the Anutin Cabinet, he said the term “bureaucratic reform” had become associated with repeated failures to turn plans into action.
Previous reform attempts, he said, had produced committees, studies and policy proposals but little in terms of tangible change.