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NLA wants to end patronage system in bureaucracy

NLA wants to end patronage system in bureaucracy

Eradication of the patronage system should be a part of the national agenda and all civil servants should join forces, especially senior officers who must serve as role models for their organisations, National Legislative Assembly (NLA) member Admiral Saksit Cherdboonmuang suggested at the NLA meeting on Thursday.

 



Saksit suggested issuing a Cabinet resolution that would be binding on all agencies. 
It is among nine key points being proposed to tackle the long-existing patronage system in Thai bureaucracy.
Among the proposals are the setting up of an information centre that would gather data from all civil servants. The database would help officers decide, based on solid records, appointments and reshuffle of their subordinates, Saksit said.
This would deal with the problem of transfer of officers, which were often weakly reasoned. This was partly due to the 1991 State Administration bill that authorised politicians to reshuffle civil servants, allowing political power to infiltrate bureaucratic affairs, he said.
The Office of the Civil Service Commission and the Office of the Public Sector Development Commission should also consider cases where the number of positions exceeded employed officers, leading to lobbying in their agencies, he said.

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