Friday, 25 June 2010
Control service abiding by new approaches, facing new tasks
According to RA Prime Minister’s new order, under control are the activities of heads of State agencies with a view to eliminating the failures revealed as a result of checks carried out by the Control Chamber and the Ministry of Finance. This was stated by Head of Prime Minister’s Control Service Sargis Grigoryan during a news conference held at the Government’s Press Center.
The speaker presented the activities of the Prime Minister’s Control Service which exercises control over the performance of Premier’s and Government’s decrees.
According to Sargisa Grigoryan, his service’s control activities have two chief targets: performance and efficiency.
Mr. Grigoryan highlighted the availability and fulfillment of agency by-laws and working procedures which is a new approach embraced by his service.
Sargis Grigoryan next stated that the Prime Minister oversees the activities of his staff who have managed to reveal serious shortfalls in the workings of a number of agency heads as a result of which some of them have been inflicted on strict reprimands.
Transparency is the key to successful control. Both the Prime Minister and the head of the Control Service prioritize relations between civil servants and citizens. Staff performance is kept on record enabling exposure of any cases of inadequate response.
The Service has surveyed the performance of those SRC units dealing with taxpayer contributions and their functions. “As a result, it was found out that some of the functions are redundant and unrealistic,” Sargis Grigoryan told the journalists. The Prime Minister is informed thereabout, and corresponding orders have already been issued.
As assured by Mr. Grigoryan, all exposed shortcomings were quickly eliminated. Moreover, either the SRC Control Service has for a while now been abiding by those standards applicable on the part of the Prime Minister’s Control Service.
CS checks were said to have affected the Exchequer’s Office of the Ministry of Finance where functional shortfalls have been revealed as some activities used to be carried out on the basis of staff experience. An expert task force was set up under the prime minister’s decree which managed to address the stated failures.
