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Government reorganization plan to be ready at end of March

ROC Central News Agency

2009/03/14 18:58:43

Taipei, March 14 (CNA) The Research, Development and Evaluation Commission (RDEC) will submit a government reorganization plan to the Cabinet by the end of March, for adoption in 2011, that would downsize the number of Cabinet departments from 37 to 28, RDEC Chairman Chiang Yi-hua said Saturday.

According to a proposal by the RDEC, the reorganization would see 13 ministries, eight councils and commissions, three independent agencies and four organizations under the Cabinet, Chiang said.

The 13 ministries would cover interior affairs, finance, national defense, economic affairs, education, culture, transportation and development, foreign and overseas compatriot affairs, agriculture, environmental resources, health and social welfare, labor affairs, and justice, he said.

The eight councils and commissions would concern science, national development, maritime affairs, Hakka affairs, indigenous affairs, veterans affairs, financial supervision, and China affairs, he continued.

The three independent agencies would be the National Communications Commission, the Central Election Commission and the Fair Trade Commission, and the four organizations would be the Central Bank, the National Palace Museum, the Central Personnel Administration, and the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Chiang went on.

He said the reorganization would involve a merger between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission, the incorporation of the Atomic Energy Council into the National Science Council, and the combination of the RDEC and the Council for Economic Planning and Development into a national development council.

Meanwhile, the Sports Affairs Council would be incorporated into the Ministry of Education, while the Government Information Office (GIO) would be disbanded, with its functions taken over by the new ministry of cultural affairs and ministry of foreign and overseas compatriot affairs, Chiang said.

After the disbanding of the GIO, a spokesman's office would be set up under the Cabinet to take charge of gazetting government policies, he said. (By Y.F. Low) ENDITEM/J