Municipal workers need "reforms": MDY minister
By Si Thu Lwin | Wednesday, 10 July 2013Civil servants need to start being a bit more civil, Mandalay City Development Committee heard on July 1.
The chief minister of Mandalay Region, U Ye Myint, urged MCDC staff to clean up their act during a meeting with heads of municipal departments and township advisory groups.
"Municipal workers need to swiftly improve their standards of morality and change their old habits," U Ye Myint said. "The workers from the city development committee are not like other government staff. They are responsible for giving services directly to the public."
He said changes need to come from the top and reach everyone on the way down.
"The heads [of departments] will need to encourage the reforms and the committee's instructions will need to reach ordinary workers as well."
U Ye Myint said municipal workers need to meet the public's needs more quickly, especially given they have no problem collecting taxes on time.
He added that the city will face stinking streets if the municipal workers do not regularly collect refuse, and that the whole city will complain if the water supply is cut.
The comments are the latest in a series of attempts to get municipal workers to focus more on the public's needs. MCDC established municipal advising groups for each township to coordinate community developments with the public. The groups work to fulfill the public's demands by consulting with the mayor every 10 days.
"We are taking responsibility as much as possible for the requirements of respective townships," U Win Pe Myint, a member of advising group for Mahar Aung Myay township, told The Myanmar Times.
"We discuss proposed demands by groups and forward some issues to the mayor if necessary. But unimportant issues are usually worked out by our ordinary workers."
Translated by Zar Zar Soe
Source: http://www.news.myanmaronlinecentre.com/2013/07/11/municipal-workers-need-reforms-mdy-minister/
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