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The Fiji government will soon begin auditing all government ministries and departments at a cost of $2.5 million as reforms to streamline the civil service to improve public service escalate.
Public Service Commission (PSC) chairman Josefa Serulagilagi told FijiLive the audit exercise is to find out if some areas of Government service were lacking in manpower.
“We will start auditing the staff, qualification of people employed, whether the numbers employed is right or too many - and all this will be taken into account,” he said.
“There may be more people in one ministry than other ministries and we will have to rationalize this.”
The exercise Serulagilagi said would cost around $2.5 million, which Government has accounted for.
He confirmed having already received $300,000 to kick-start the audit exercise.
“We are hoping since no outside fund is coming, we will probably have to ask the Government to top up the allocation we already received.”
Serulagilagi said no one would lose their job from the exercise.
The PSC recently began renovating government housing quarters to get rental incomes.
Last week, it called for tenders to rent former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase’s government residence in Domain, along with 10 other government quarters.
