14 Sec-Gens Called For Assessment Over Missed Project Targets - Chief Secretary

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 (Bernama) -- A total of 14 ministry secretaries-general are required to undergo performance assessments of their development project implementation after being found to have fallen short of the targets set, said Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar.

He said the assessment is conducted under the government’s merit-based system, which incorporates two main mechanisms, namely demerit and remerit, to evaluate the actual performance of the ministries.

“Regarding the assessment, if a ministry’s development projects are poorly executed, we issue a demerit. But if they have achieved other significant outcomes, at national or international level, we will fairly remerit them,” he said after the meeting of the Federal-State Relations Committee here today.

Also present were Public Service director-general Tan Sri Wan Ahmad Dahlan Abdul Aziz and Border Control and Protection Agency (AKPS) director-general Datuk Seri Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain.

Shamsul Azri said the government will focus on assessing economic development projects under the 12th Malaysia Plan before finalising the scores for the 14 ministries that failed to meet their targets.

“We will wait until after Aidilfitri to determine the next steps,” he said.

On Jan 15, he said that the 14 ministries had been identified as failing to meet their physical development project targets for the previous year, with development expenditure recording only 87.91 per cent, which is below the national average and requiring serious attention.

-- BERNAMA