Mongolia intends to reform public institutions: prime minister

Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaataryn Batbold said here Thursday his country must make more effort to reform the country's public service system.

Mongolia needed a great number of competent public servants to seize the development opportunity of the next 20 years, Batbold said on a forum with the theme of "Reform of state service: challenge and opportunity".

There were 150,000 public servants in Mongolia, local media said and inefficiency, incompetency and corruption are common.

Professional public service was very much correlated with economic and social development, visiting Canadian Public Service Commission President Maria Barrados told the forum.

She also stressed a nonpartizan public service was fundamentally important to peaceful and orderly succession after a general elections

Batbold said Mongolia could learn from Canada's experience in reform.

The forum was coorganized by the Mongolian government and the Canadian Public Service Commission. Mogolian ministers and members of parliament were among the 600 participants at the forum.

Source:Xinhua

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