ArmInfo.Reduction of jobs at the first stage of optimization of the Government is not expected. Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan announced this on March 18 in a conversation with journalists.
To the question whether the statements about the reduction of 10 thousand jobs were exaggerated, Avinyan replied: .
To note, as a result of the change in the structure of the Cabinet of Ministers of Armenia from 17 ministries, it is planned to leave 12. As Minister of Territorial Administration and Development Suren Papikyan stated earlier, regional administrations expect a reduction of 30%. At the same time, earlier in the parliament, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted that in the system of state administration in the short term, reductions will be minimal. According to him, the cuts will be from the ministries, whose functions are duplicated. As for employees from non-duplicating structures, then, according to the head of the government, they are not threatened with reductions today. "Everyone, without exception, will get a chance to prove that in these conditions he is ready and able to work in accordance with the new requirements," he assured.
Meanwhile, in early March of this year Former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, former Justice Minister Arpine Hovhannisyan published an official document on her Facebook page - a letter addressed to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on behalf of Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan and Finance Minister Atom Janjughazyan, which refers to the proposed reduction 10,000 civil servants. As noted, the authors of the document as a justification for the mass cuts of state officials cite the following argument: "Even if 10,000 civil servants who do not bring additional product to the country (result, value - ed) will become unemployed, the Armenian statehood and the entire public will benefit from it. about 3 million citizens of Armenia. " In response, Armenian Finance Minister Atom Janjughazyan stated that the document does not indicate specific figures on the proposed reductions, and 10 thousand is a conditional number. "The formulation only concerns the fact that even if we are talking about such a possible outcome, you still need to compare this number with the number of those who can win in this situation when this conditional number suffers. Moreover, the word" suffer "is taken in brackets. This, in our opinion, cannot concern those who create the product ", - explained the head of the Ministry of Finance. "We are trying to achieve the best result with the available opportunities. That is, the process is not aimed at reducing the finances, but at achieving the maximum result," said Janjughazyan, urging everyone to rally around this idea, since it implies maximum efficient spending of state budget funds our country with such difficulty. "