Number of civil servants on the rise

The variety of civil servants has reached a historic excessive, and the share of the whole inhabitants is 6.68 %. This is a rise of seven.8 % from the identical interval final yr, and it signifies that 17 % of the entire workforce is working within the public sector. The share of civil servants within the whole inhabitants was 5.78 % a decade in the past, and now they’re 225,200, which is a rise of 16,300 from the earlier yr. Though the variety of authorities staff has repeatedly elevated throughout the above interval, the variety of 16,300 can also be a rise that has not been seen up to now 10 years. Apart from the rise of 14,100 in 2013 to 2014, the rise within the variety of civil servants has fluctuated between 1,000 and 6,500 per yr.

Variety of ministries and businesses have additionally elevated. In response to the outcomes of final yr, there are 16 ministries and 38 businesses of the federal government within the “Report of the Civil Service Council’s operation and the nationwide census of civil  servants-2022”. Particularly, in 2013, 16 ministries and 30 businesses have been working. At the moment, the federal government of N.Altankhuyag was criticized for establishing an company, however the quantity didn’t exceed 30. That being mentioned, when approving this yr’s finances, the State Digital Providers Regulatory Authority was established firstly of the yr, the Nationwide Institute of Forensic Investigations was established in January, and the implementing businesses such because the Basic Directorate of Forensic Investigations and the Funding and Commerce Division have been established in February and it was not talked about within the report. Additionally, though the Basic Division of Skilled Inspection was dissolved and its capabilities transferred to the related ministries and different authorities businesses, the Governmental Inspection Implementation Division was established, and the utmost variety of staff was authorised to be 150.

After each election, the successful occasion destroys the federal government by firing and changing staff and intentionally creating jobs and vacancies to unencumber personnel. For instance, as seen within the report, the interval which elevated by 14,100 coincides with the interval when the Democratic Folks’s Occasion received the bulk within the 2012 elections and the ruling energy modified. However after 2016, after successful two consecutive elections, what was making the Folks’s Occasion out of the blue growing the variety of staff final yr, even after already integrating their occasion members into the civil service. In response to the report, it emphasised that, 17 kindergartens, 11 faculties, 4 hospitals, one scientific institute, 4 cultural facilities and 31 state administration establishments have been created final yr. In different phrases, the variety of public service staff elevated by 14,600 from the earlier yr to 152,200, and this turned the primary incentive to implement coverage measures to maintain normal training courses in two shifts, to totally enroll younger kids in kindergarten, and thus to extend the time for lecturers to work with college students. Certainly, the variety of service personnel has elevated six instances over the 2020-2021 progress. Additionally, the variety of political staff decreased by 406 from the earlier yr to 3759.

In recognition of this, the top of the Cupboard Secretariat and Minister D.Amarbayasgalan lately introduced that the work of decreasing the scale of the civil service might be carried out in levels from 2024, and the share of staff within the whole workforce might be elevated to fifteen. It’s as a result of in accordance with worldwide ideas, it’s thought of irregular if the share of civil servants exceeds 15 within the whole workforce of the nation. This can be a “promise” to cut back the variety of civil servants by 26,500 and never exceed 199,000, which signifies that it will likely be delivered to the extent of 2019. 4 years in the past, the variety of civil servants was 198,400. In actual fact, it’s not stunning that the primary particular person answerable for the federal government and the occasion’s “chief” made this announcement after successful the final two elections in a row, at nearly the tip of their eight years of steady energy. The work that was not executed up to now seven years and the guarantees that weren’t fulfilled within the subsequent yr, throughout the mandate of the following Parliament and the Authorities, appear to be no completely different from election guarantees. Furthermore, lately, Speaker of the Parliament G.Zandanshatar was handed over the report from the Civil Service Council and throughout the presentation, the speaker criticized the growing variety of civil servants yearly and warned that complete reforms must be carried out to make them smaller and extra competent, to extend their productiveness and enhance their outcomes. In doing so, he directed to hold out hierarchical analysis, evaluation and analysis aimed toward intensifying the great reform of the general public service and make coverage suggestions. 

With such a tone of sudden awakening and realization, the authorities introduced that they’ve failed to satisfy their election guarantees after admitting that they’ve corrupted the federal government up to now. When the Folks’s Occasion reminded them, they didn’t neglect that they promised to cut back the variety of ministries, businesses, and finances organizations by eliminating duplication of labor and duties of presidency establishments. Additionally they talked quite a bit concerning the implementation of some authorities capabilities by non-governmental organizations {and professional} associations. As well as, they emphasised making authorities providers accessible to residents by transferring them to digital type and bringing them nearer to the folks. That is a part of their marketing campaign promise of 2016. The 2020 motion plan consists of the promise to implement the “E-Mongolia” program to ship authorities providers rapidly, with out delays, and with the participation of residents, to make authorities providers freed from congestion, and to enhance high quality, accessibility, and outcomes, copying their marketing campaign promise of earlier than. In 3.1.16 of the agenda, there may be additionally a clause that claims, “The construction and group might be rationalized and shortened by eliminating and mixing the actions of state administrative establishments. Moreover, there continues to be extra guarantees which looks like desires, resembling, to eradicate paperwork, to enhance the providers of presidency establishments, empowering their staff, and saving finances prices. Though now we have a minister answerable for e-development, and even a authorities implementing company, the State Digital Providers Regulatory Workplace, and the variety of its staff has elevated, our authorities has grow to be smaller and extra competent, and has not been near its residents.

In actual fact, after the Mongolian Folks’s Occasion received the bulk in 2016, Parliament revised the Civil Service Legislation and it has been carried out since 2019. The Mongolian Folks’ Occasion, which has been answerable for the preparation and implementation of the Legislation, and has not shared it with anybody, is now speaking about complete reforms and decreasing the scale of the civil service.

Supply: “Report on the actions of the Civil Service Council and the nationwide census of civil servants-2022”