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Date:
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Reporter:
25.11.86
2.15 to 5.00
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be learned and in fact, I think that lesson has already been learned in the Chai Wan Institute. As I said, that has already gone through without a hitch. You will see Sir, at the concluding Paragraph 132, reference is made to new procedures and so forth and these in fact,
are now in operation. At the beginning of the paper it was said
that we had a two-stage operation; we now have a 21-step operation of which some include many sub-steps. You asked me for my opinion and what the effect might be; too many steps in this particular programme I think delay matters, and in times of inflation I think there may be more cost involved. I think in fact, that the procedures may be over-complicated and I would hope perhaps some day the Director of
Audit may look upon that particular part of our procedures.
CHAIRMAN:
In that case Mr Director, can you make any recommendation to the administration for simplifying the procedures?
I am all for simplifying procedures provided it works!
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Sir, the procedures are simple enough, it
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is the task of going through the hoops and procedures which I think
are laborious. Bearing in mind that this doesn't only apply to the
VTC and I am speaking now for a wide number of subvented organisations
which this procedure will be, I think the upshot might be that more
public money is spent. Perhaps the nugatory expenditure might be
avoided, but I --
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beaurocratic procedures?
You mean frankly going through the
DTEIT:
Yes, I think so, but not only that Sir,
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prices change. We have had for instance, a year's delay and a lot of
the equipment of the TI's has to be bought abroad and as you know Sir,
the cost of equipment bought abroad has gone up, and this year's
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delay has caused a lot of other costs although against that we have
saved staff; it is very difficult to get an equation on which is
36 right. Nevertheless, I was asked a general question as to what I