Tuesday, November 13 2018 15:57

ArmInfo. In Armenia, there are commanders of non-existing troops, Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated during discussions of the draft state budget of the  country for 2019 in the parliament on November 13.

However, according to him, these commanders regularly receive a  salary. In such a state of affairs, there can be no talk about wage  increases in the country in general. The public administration system  should be optimized. "Such a situation when one of the workers in the  office works from morning till night, while the other drinks coffee  and looks at the clock and they both get the same salary, is  unacceptable," the Acting Prime Minister  stressed. He added that in  the educational field of the country today there is an overabundance  of 10 thousand teachers. As a result, the allocated funds are  distributed among all, and each of the school teachers receives a  meager salary of 70 thousand drams. Importantly, the head of the  government continued, the revolutionary process of optimizing the  system of public administration that has begun should be evolutionary  so that the huge army of people does not remain without work. The  optimization process should be accompanied with opening of new jobs  and opportunities.

On November 1 of this year Nikol Pashinyan in the country's  parliament reported that today in the educational system of the  country there are 10872 more places than it was approved by the staff  list, which provides for 48,795 staff positions. In fact, Nikol  Pashinyan continued, the salary of one teacher is divided into two.  The state administration system also requires optimization, which  employs 18,700 workers. The Acting Prime Minister also turned to the  activities of scientists, whose number is approaching 4,500 people.  "I don't say that we don't need these scientists, but what do they  do, what achievements have they achieved in science?" Nikol Pashinyan  wondered, adding that science is not connected to production and  reality. The government intends to solve this problem so that science  is directly connected with production and solves its financial  problems due to appropriate agreements. "The state should finance the  basic sciences," Nikol Pashinyan stressed.