ArmInfo.The new government will not have 17 ministers, as it is today, but 9 or 11. First Deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan told reporters on November 14.
According to him, the state apparatus in its current form is over-inflated. There are numerous GNPOs, Funds and Program Implementation Bureaus, whose mission today is not completely clear. There are those that carry out functions that either duplicate the work carried out by an employee of the ministry, or it can be entrusted to the ministries themselves. As a result, in the above organizations there are people who get more work for the same work than a civil servant in the ministry.
In this regard, as the first First Deputy Prime Minister believes, it is necessary to reform the entire state apparatus, to reduce it somewhere, to add it somewhere. In general, according to Mirzoyan, out of 17 existing ministries, 9 or 11 will probably remain in the new cabinet.
At the same time, as Mirzoyan assured, the "optimization" of the state apparatus does not imply a mechanical reduction of personnel. It is possible that they will be reduced somewhere, since they think that the work currently performed by 300 employees can be done by 250, but it is also possible that additional personnel will be attracted to improve the quality of work. As a result, as the representative of the government assured, all steps will be aimed only at increasing the productivity of the state apparatus.
To note, the former government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan, earlier "optimized" the work of the Cabinet. Instead of 18 ministries, the new Cabinet entered 17. The 18th was the "superfluous" Ministry of Urban Development, which was reorganized into the Committee.