The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is hoping that the proposed rightsizing program will be passed into law within this year.
The National Government Rightsizing Program (NGRP) seeks to upgrade the government’s institutional capacity to perform its mandate and provide better services while ensuring optimal and efficient use of resources.
“Hopefully this year, I think next week, it will be passed in the House, and then we’ll try to push it in the Senate,” Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman told reporters late last week.
“We are hoping that it can be passed within the year so we can start already, because it can’t be done (all at once) right away,” she added.
Pangandaman said rightsizing is an important measure for the administration, especially at a time when the fiscal deficit is quite high.
However, even as she remains hopeful, the DBM chief said the prioritization of other measures may affect the timeline of the passage of the proposed rightsizing.
Previously, Pangandaman pointed out the NGRP is not synonymous to mass layoff.
“Rightsizing is not a mass layoff. It is strengthening the entire government structure in order to help our bureaucracy to have an agile, efficient, responsive and technology-driven workforce,” she said last year.
