Minister of Interior Sar Kheng advised subordinate officials on Thursday to continue working together and dividing roles and duties to streamline efficiency.
He said the number of officials following his directive had increased remarkably.
The Facebook page of the Ministry of Interior said Sar Kheng would review and evaluate the roles and working formalities of officials who are at the levels of secretaries of state, under-secretaries of state and general directors.
Sar Kheng, who is also the deputy prime minister, said officials were to be delegated duties at the general departments or similar units under the ministry at its and the government’s request.
He said that besides taking responsibility for work in the ministry, its officials had connected activities with local people daily to learn about their joys and pains and actual lives.
Secretary of state Sok Setha told The Post on Thursday that, in the past, the ministry had highlighted the working formalities at the ministry. But in order to streamline work efficiency, the ministry had adjusted work in line with development and growth at each institution.
He said Sar Kheng had advised the ministry’s officials to strive to collaborate on work at the general departments according to their roles and duties as stipulated by the law.
Setha said the ministry currently has 24 secretaries of state and 43 under-secretaries of state.
Affiliated Network for Social Accountability executive director San Chey said the ministry provides many public services and is also in the frontline to carry out reforms. “It has to go through a standard work performance evaluation system that is acceptable,” he said.
He said the limit of the number of the secretaries of state, the under-secretaries of state and directors of an institution was to be made based on the work-performance evaluation system.
“Overall, I acknowledge that the ministry is the one to provide a great many public services. But the decentralisation of the other ministries seems limited. Their work at the local levels should have been large, but instead, it’s small,” he said.