16 April 2004 09:46
Hundreds of civil service jobs cut by dynamic Russian governor
Krasnodar, 16 April: Krasnodar Territory governor Aleksandr Tkachev, who dismissed his administration on 19 March,
has taken less than a month to form a new team.
"Yesterday [15 April] the last nine new heads of department were appointed, thus completing the first stage of
the personnel reform," Tkachev said. "We primarily sought to attract fresh forces to solve major economic and
social tasks," he added.
Some 70 heads of department and deputy heads were dismissed from the territory administration. Only the heads of
department responsible for the fuel and energy sector, health care, Cossack issues, military issues, finance and the
budget, and the committee responsible for the housing and utilities sector were left in post.
Middle-tier management will be reformed next week. In total, some 250 jobs will be slashed in the Krasnodar Territory
administration. Tens of millions of roubles of public money will be saved as a result of the reform.
[Tkachev is one of Russia's more dynamic regional leaders. He was re-elected governor on 14 March 2004, the same
day that Vladimir Putin was re-elected Russian president, and gained 17 per cent more of the Krasnodar vote than Putin
did in the presidential poll, the newspaper Krasnodarskiy Kuryer reported on 17 March. Tkachev was tipped by some
Russian political pundits as a possible future Russian premier. President Putin has told the new national Russian
government to undertake the kind of administrative cuts that Tkachev has now made in Krasnodar.]
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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