A vision for better service

Talking to the people: Najib (second from right) at the National Transformation 2050 dialogue session with civil servants. — Bernama

IT is not a comment many – according to the cynics, at least – would expect at a National Transformation 2050 (TN50) dialogue session between the Prime Minister and civil servants. And most definitely not as the first comment....

But when some 1,300 civil servants were invited to share their vision of what the country and civil service would and should be like in 2050 in Putrajaya last Wednesday, an officer from the Finance Ministry opened the dialogue with the very issue that has been plaguing the public sector for much of the first quarter of this year: the size of the civil service and its operating costs.