Annual Intake Of 25,000 Civil Servants To Stay - Ali Hamsa

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PUTRAJAYA, 9 Mac -- Ketua Setiausaha Negara Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa (kanan) bersama Ketua Pengarah Perkhidmatan Awam Tan Sri Mohamad Zabidi Zainal semasa sidang media selepas Majlis Istiadat Penganugerahan Diploma Pengurusan Awam dan Felo Institut Tadbiran Awam Negara (INTAN) 2016 di Pusat Konvensyen Antarabangsa Putrajaya (PICC) hari ini.
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The annual intake of 25,000 new civil servants to replace those who retire will be continued, said chief secretary to the government Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa.

He said it was in line with government policy to maintain the 1.61 million civil servants to meet the needs of the 30 million people currently.

“Every year 25,000 civil servants retire and they need to be replaced with the same number through new recruitment,” he commented on the circular the Treasury issued yesterday, titled ‘Garis Panduan Langkah-Langkah Mengoptimumkan Perbelanjaan Kerajaan’.

The circular mentioned among other things the freeze on recruiting new staff, tightening payment of overtime and cutting entertainment allowances of Ministers and Deputy Ministers by 10 per cent effective from the beginning of this month.

Speaking at a press conference after the ceremony to award diplomas in Public Administration (DPA) and fellowship by the National Institute of Public Administration (Intan) here today, Ali explained that the new intake that was not justified was when there was a need to set up a new agency.

“We can set up but it becomes the responsibility of the PSD (Public Service Department) and the ministries to find staff by appointing them by ‘redeployment’ from existing staff whether from the ministry or other ministries.

“Maybe there are certain tasks of an agency that is out of date or its importance has diminished, that we should probably close or reduce the employees there and these are the people we need to place in posts in the new agency being established,” he said.

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