2024-02-19 08:47:18
On January 31, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan discussed the 2023 activity report of the State Control Service.
Romanos Petrosyan, the head of the PES, and his deputies reported on the activities carried out during the reporting period.
In particular, summary information was presented on 40 studies (39 in 2022) and 216 monitoring (2022: 39) and 216 monitoring (2022: 39) carried out in 2023 in the fields of state-legal, economic, territorial administration and infrastructure, social, procurement processes, implementation of inspections, risk assessment and analysis, as well as legal assurance and legality. 2022: 201) regarding the results.
In the context of the above, a separate reference was made to the studies and a number of monitoring carried out in departments and structures with a state share.
It was noted that 90 criminal proceedings were initiated in 2023 (77 in 2022) as a result of the implementation of control functions by the service. It was also reported that about 1.1 billion drams (in 2022: about 135 million drams) were recovered for the violations/inconsistencies recorded.
In this context, reference was made to the time spent by the state system for renewable funds and the expenditure of their respective amounts. Prime Minister Pashinyan noted. “Here is the problem of wording. our task was initially to recover 1000 drams, or our task was, for example, to carry out control, and in the process 1000 drams were recovered or 400. Theoretically, in my understanding, there is a case that restoring 1000 drams is so fundamental that one can spend 50,000 drams or even 1 million drams for it, because it depends on the context. For example, such a question arises again in connection with the functions of the SRC. I say, listen, dear colleagues, there are 3000 POS terminals in the country with 0 transactions. What is the protocol of SRC? he says, having put those 3000 POS terminals in the villages, well, if it worked, how much turnover would there be? If there was a turnover of 100 million drams, 6 million drams of tax would be generated from the turnover of 100 million drams. I say no, this is not the case, because it is firstly a human right that we have to ensure, a pensioner who can do cashless trade and secondly, it is a matter of law enforcement.
We need to move from quantitative indicators to qualitative indicators and highlight the problems and propose solutions, or it is not necessary for the PSO to have the solutions to all the issues, it can say that this problem exists, a policy-making body or an implementer, see how you solution but this problem exists. That way of working, in my opinion, is more correct than just staying in digital logic.”