Govt to Empower Governors with CEO-like Authority

[webfact]

    
BANGKOK (NNT) - The Cabinet has approved a proposal to grant provincial governors powers similar to those of a company CEO, aligning with its decentralization policy. This decision was made during a cabinet meeting and is set to take effect from October 1, 2024, for the fiscal year 2025.

 

Under the new policy, provincial governors will have the authority to conduct performance appraisals, adjust salaries, offer special rewards, and take disciplinary actions against senior civil servants in their provinces. This is in accordance with Section 53 of the 2022 royal decree on integrated area-based administration.

 

The National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) submitted this proposal, which includes the introduction of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure provincial achievements. These KPIs will play a role in government decisions regarding budget allocation and development plans. Provinces have been instructed to prepare a 20-year provincial development outlook and detail their current annual development plans.

 

The Ministry of Interior has also been tasked with compiling this data for the Budget Bureau to incorporate into the state budget distribution. Governors are expected to soon receive formal briefings on their new roles and responsibilities under this decree.

 

by Krajangwit Johjit

 

Sorce: NNT 2023-12-06

 

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[KhunBENQ]

More power and still unelected bureaucrats.

Wise move

[mfd101]

In principle a good move. KPIs etc.

 

In practice, if 'Western' bureaucracies are anything to go by, it won't make any difference.

 

The only thing that works is governments reducing the numbers of bureaucrats and stopping financing for 1001 projects that have been plodding along for years, or even decades, with no known outcomes. This applies to every country in the world.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Under the new policy, provincial governors will have the authority to conduct performance appraisals, adjust salaries, offer special rewards, and take disciplinary actions against senior civil servants in their provinces.

All okay if it's done fairly and transparently.... 

[TheFishman1]

Holy guacamole, these provisional governors. If you check, you’ll find out their multimillionaires money off store money in BROWN envelopes get it paid for every big company that’s in their providence each month they are so corrupt and now they have more powers. TIT.

[Srikcir]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

All okay if it's done fairly and transparently.... 

If not accountable to the electorate (voters), it's not a democracy and more what a Board of Directors are to customers. Corporations are not democratic institutions.

What the government has done by analogy is a General (PM) has inserted colonels between him and rank and file soldiers. Soldiers don't get a vote directly or indirectly.

But you are somewhat right in that this action is a fairy.