COST-ECONOMIZING PRINCIPLES WILL BE IMPLEMENTED AT ALL LEVELS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Head of the Cabinet Secretariat for Government S.Bayartsogt said it Wednesday at an online meeting with localities' authorities. The government is working out a policy and a programme on overcoming current economic difficulties and on stabilizing the national economy. Within the regime of economization, measures will be taken in several phases for making a composition and structure of state organizations more proper, and an elimination of duties' duplication at Ministries and agencies as well a reduction in managerial stages has already started, he said. Policy reforms will be done to remove state organizations' state service people from the category of "state" and to carry out the people-targeted state services on principle of state-business partnership, he added. The cabinet has been told to take several measures after discussing an audit report from the Audit Office at a meeting of the Standing committee on budget over the expenditure of money of Local development and Soums’ development funds. Obligations were given to the localities' authorities to fulfill some concrete works such as imposing responsibilities upon those servants guilty of the money expenditure, registering in a “black list” those companies that poorly performed works by bids, and increasing the public participation and monitoring in all levels of budgetary works. The aimags and soums’ authorities were ordered to give information about an approval of the law on “glass” account, which will come into force from January 1 of 2015, and to hold relevant training. Due to reforms in the governmental structure and organization, the cabinet’s action plan will be altered, but many works, planned or already launched by the previous government in construction, industry and state service spheres, will be continued, Bayartsogt said.