Military government
dismissed 9600 employees of MAI
Mi Mon Kyae, Independent Mon
News Agency
Military government SPDC dismissed 9600 employees of
Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MAI) after the government degrading of
management and some dismissed employees dissatisfied to the possess, according
to a manager of Township Myanmar Agricultural Service (MAS).
Military government started it dismissal process at the
beginning of February 2005, and dismissed 3800 employees of MAS and 5800 of
other 12 departments under MAI, said MAS manager who worked as manager near
thirty years.
“MAS can’t manage its programs such as agricultural
education to farmers, providing fertilizer and antiseptic. That’s why MAS lost 3000 millions Kyat of its
investment in the service. Because such a serious loss, Senior General Than Shwe felt the employees in MAS do not have sufficient
capacity for management. He named the employees as ‘extra employees’ and
dismissed them from our department”, said a 60 years old manager said.
According to the dismissed employee, he dissatisfied because
unfair dismissal process. “How do we
satisfy? The employees those are necessarily to be dismissed are dismissed and
the authorities continue employ their relatives”, said Yin Aye, a dismissed
employee.
“Another matter was they strongly dissatisfied as they have
to sign every day like working in the office and receive the salary only from
Township PDC office, but not from their department. They did not receive other on-wage costs for
travel and others. The authorities also
reduced the number of employees up to 7 from the average 20-30 employees in
each office”, Ma Yin Aye added.
“What the employee are right. The government does not make
clear probation order and the dismissed employees do not want to withdraw
salary or compensation in the TPDC office. I think the government also concerns
that if they dismissed massive servants, it will against the labour laws”, said
the Manager who experienced in the MAS department in Tenasserim Division,
According to manager, the mis-management
in the government is not in the level of departmental civil servants, it is in
the level of ministerial managers.
“MAS faced loss in its service because the Ministry did not
conduct needs assessment survey among the farmers in the country. They just
imported these chemical antiseptic and fertilizer and tried to sell to farmers.
The farmers did not purchase these materials,” said the manager.
Ministries which are administrated by the army Generals, who
have no agricultural knowledge and interest in the agriculture, created this
serious problem said the Manager.
According to the Manager, 28 agriculture consultants who
received Ph. D Degrees from abroad in agriculture studies and 20000 employees
are employed in MAI before the current massive dismissal process.
“The
According to MAS employees, the government removed four
departments under MAI to No. 1 Ministry of Industry. Although SPDC claims there is economic
improvement in all sectors in its controlled media, there has been instability
in employment of government servants.
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