Education ministry shifts functions to province offices
28 Jan 2010, 2:05 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The ministry of education signed management contracts with seven province offices yesterday to decentralise certain administrative functions of the ministry.
Minister of Education Musthafa Luthfy signed the contract on behalf of the Ministry and state ministers for each province signed on behalf of their province.
President Mohamed Nasheed said the government intended to eventually shift all the ministry’s powers and services to the province offices.
Dividing the Maldvies into seven provinces was one of the five election pledges Nasheed made in 2008, a move that has met with considerable controversy in parliament to the extent of stalling it completely in the closing sessions of its last sitting.
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