Minister draws red line to French leave

New method to trap dishonest employees:

Dharma Sri ABEYRATNE

COLOMBO: The Agriculture Development and Agrarian Services Ministry will soon implement a new method to curb inefficiency of the ministry staff, said Minister Maithreepala Sirisena.

The Minister was addressing an awareness programme on the Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation (RBME) recently.

“There are many dedicated staff members in the Ministry while a few drive three wheelers, engaging in businesses, getting French leave after signing the attendance register,” the Minister pointed out.

“We being Government employees have dedication, devotion and determination to lead the country to better future,” he added.

He said the Ministry has scheduled to state the National Agriculture Policy next month. In addition, accelerated project of Local Food Programme will also be implemented.

We have to think of the country and its future generation, said Minister Sirisena. Under the RBME method, first ‘Base Line Data’ will be collected focussing the institute’s short-term and long-term goals which are called ‘Vision’ and ‘Mission’. According to the short term goal an Annual Action Plan will be formed.

After the implementation of the annual plan, its progress will be evaluated in every three months. Finally the progress of the action plan will be evaluated, said a Ministry official.

A large number of staff members participated in the meeting.