maintenance culture in government sulks

Replace that roof ordered samyvelu. He had requested a bill of $22 million to check those buildings in Putrajaya. Can you believe for checking buildings? I dont know how he arrived at the amount and no tender exercise? After that what then? It will go a slow death in the maintenance culture. Just take a stroll around any government building in the country you will see the poor maintenance culture crops up in their ranks. So every time somebody wants to meet these officials, you will most likely hear "Pegawai bermesyuarat" The culture is the ladder leadership style. One will do one job no mult-tasking involves. Like the garbage collector......the driver will sit in his truck sometimes smoking away the other garbage collectors will do the job and the engine is not switched off. He lets it runs. You can imagine how much money wasted and smoke of pollution too. Or you will see the women officials doing own personal errants or talking away with long breaks without offering any positive cutomer services....even though one can stand or sit for hours....because there is no multi-tasking cultures in the government depts. Oh yes the DGs will come out with flowery charters in words but lack the power of doing it. Because the downliners won't carry out the tasks .....but they will want that increment for half past 6 work. And the half past 6 government will give them that raise with quantum undecided....that is the reason now where you found prices of goods are increasing so that the government will have something to say. Your favourite stall(s) will say he/she has to increase his/her prices too per bowl....it is ridiculous, isnt it? Say increase by 15cts per kg your favourite hawker will increase 30cts per bowl! Just like my favourite cendol stall from $0.70 per bowl to $1.00 per bowl something like 42% jump per bowl! Of course now I dont buy so often or the laksa stall from $2.50 to $3.00 now. Before CNY he increased it to $2.80 after CNY he made it $3.00. But the joke here is he wanted to recoup his many trips to China.....now laksa is expensive here. He's still the best laksa in the country (on my taste and my stay in other states then) So you find so many projects to service the government has no choice but to impose small taxes to get the money for this and that The government will say it is for the good of the country. The government wont say it fails to check on the lazy attitude of the civil servants and too many meetings habits in the each ministry. It can be changed with what they have now. And the government doesnt need to pay $22 million for checking of buildings...ask each state JKR director to formulate strategic maintenance plans to check on these buildings. JKR is the dept entrusted to maintain and service the government buildings. Use the staff in JKR to walk the talk in all the buildings throughout the country. And also the directors of other ministries should do the same and submit report on the conditions of the building occupy by these ministries every quarter. They can hold meeting by walking around the buildings as part of the programmes to know their own buildings. Take pictures and log in the loose leaf paper. In this way the government doesnt have to fork out $22 million...as the culture never changes I doubt it will happen. The tax payers have to fork out the money by way of taxes.....in the long run as recorded in history of government past, the government of BN will be changed by the people through the ballot boxes because they see their values have dropped.