Ministry of the Interior and Safety Provides 5 Billion KRW Special Grants to Local Governments for Workforce Efficiency
Support Despite Committee Mergers and Reductions
The Ministry of the Interior and Safety will allocate special grants to 39 local governments that have efficiently managed their local organizations through autonomous efforts.
On the 17th, the Ministry announced that it will provide a total of 5 billion KRW in special grants to 39 local governments that showed excellent performance in two areas: workforce operation efficiency and active committee restructuring.
So far, the Ministry has guided local governments to respond to new administrative demands not by increasing personnel but by reallocating existing staff, without expanding the workforce. It has also recommended the abolition and consolidation of inefficiently operated committees.
First, 3 billion KRW in special grants will be provided to 25 local governments that actively reallocated personnel while reducing or freezing their workforce. In particular, additional incentives were given to local governments that actively reallocated personnel in the disaster safety sector. For example, Pyeongchang-gun in Gangwon reduced civil service personnel due to increased use of unmanned civil service issuance machines. Yeosu in Jeollanam-do expanded dedicated personnel for the disaster safety situation room.
Special grants of 2 billion KRW will also be provided to 14 local governments that actively reduced unnecessary committees. The Ministry encourages the restructuring of similar, overlapping, or poorly performing committees through monthly status surveys. Jung-gu in Ulsan showed the best performance by reducing more than 20% of its committees.
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Kim Min-jae, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, stated, "To improve the overall efficiency of government personnel management, efforts from local governments as well as central ministries are essential. Through incentives for local governments with excellent organizational management, we will spread best practices and support efficient local organization management led by local governments."
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