Cabinet to discuss streamlining of govt agencies ‘soon’

 

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he will only decide on the streamlining of several agencies after the proposal is presented to the Cabinet.

PUTRAJAYA: 

The proposal to streamline several government agencies due to overlapping functions will be presented at a Cabinet meeting soon, said Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

Anwar, who is also the finance minister, said the matter needed to be brought to the Cabinet before a decision could be made.

“I assigned then Treasury secretary-general Asri Hamidon to give several proposals to streamline several agencies and present them to the chief secretary to the government.

“And I will decide after it has been presented to the Cabinet,” he said in his speech at his ministry’s monthly gathering here today.

On Sept 3 last year, Anwar said the government had established a secretariat for the rationalisation of federal statutory bodies to address the issue of overlapping functions and save funds. - FMT