Fifteen Agencies To Go Off Government Subvention

Fifteen State agencies are to be weaned off government subvention this year following the completion of a sensitisation programme between the French Government and the Ghana Institute of Public Administration (GIMPA).

Deputy Rector of GIMPA, Professor Duku Osei, who disclosed this in Accra said for the affected agencies to be successful, there is the need to create a level playing field for them to compete favourably on the markets.

The agencies include the Energy Commission, EPA, Water Resources Commission, Food and Drugs Authority and the Ghana Standards Authority.

The others are the DVLA, Security Exchange Commission, Law Reform Commission and the Divestiture Implementation Commission. 

The rest are the Tamale Teaching Hospital, the Ghana Legal Council and Kumasi Polytechnic.

The decision to wean off the affected state agencies was announced by the Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper in his 2014 Budget presentation last year in which he disclosed that government will amend the law that established those agencies to enable them to generate more revenue.

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