NRSA: Three rivers approve 65 reform proposals

Thammarat Thadaphrom

 

 

BANGKOK, 10 September 2016 (NNT) – According to the first deputy speaker of the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA), the whip of three rivers has already approved 65 reform proposals. 

Alongkorn Polabutr, NRSA first deputy speaker, disclosed that a total of 88 reform proposals had been submitted to Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha. In addition, he said the whips of the three rivers, being the reform assembly, the cabinet, and the legislature have given approval to 65 more reform proposals which will act as guidelines for state offices to follow. 

He said officials responsible for monitoring the mobilization of reform had been asked to report reform progress to the Prime Minister every 15 days, in a bid to ensure concrete results. 

The deputy speaker also made known that the NRSA is expected to complete the drafting of the national reform plan 120 days after the promulgation of the permanent constitution.

 

 

-- nnt 2016-09-11

In the words of Young Mr Grace.

 

 

This would be newsworthy if they were not approved.

It is not a case of 65 with a further 88 reforms,  it is what reforms are they reforming , like how about giving the People a taste of the reforms that officials have pasted, nothing worse than getting to immigration and find out that a new reform law states that foreigners are only entitled to one tourist entry per year, for me ,  that's reform........................................................

Aren't you impressed by the quantity of unspecified reforms? Perhaps next year, we will get one hundred. One hundred reforms!

looks like the number of unnamed unapproved reforms has been reformed in an upward direction.

These new 68 reforms for the public service are going to have to be reported on every 15 days. How many tonnes of paperwork and zillions of emails will that take and how many new jobs will need be created to monitor the "new" reforms and do the reporting.

 

It seems they have just discovered Parkinson's Law thus:

 

"work expands to fill the time available for its completion" and/or "a sufficiently large bureaucracy will generate enough internal work to keep itself 'busy' and so justify its continued existence without commensurate output".

 

This adage also includes two important sub-factors.

Factor I.—It is important for a public official to multiply subordinates rather than rivals.

Factor II.—It is important that public officials make work for each other.