The folks at Guinness world records probably don’t know this yet – but I have a strong feeling that we will soon make it to their list as the world’s biggest government. My curiosity and obsession with frivolous things in our small country led me to compile the statistics below from the veringe list on information ministry’s website.
Ministers and officials in the same level 36
State Ministers 12
Deputy Ministers 46
Executive Directors (includes Atoll chief, DEDs, AEDs 65
Atoll Chiefs 18
Director Generals (including Deputy DGs and Assistant DGs) 210
Directors (including DDs and ADs) 1368
Asst und sec 1153
Total Number of Verin (excluding the guys from MNDF and Police) 2,926
I had a look at figures from some familiar countries too. Sri Lanka with 87 ministers and 20 deputy ministers and Kenya with 33 ministers and 50 assistant ministers would probably be our closest rivals. But considering their populations of over 20 million and 35 million respectively, they are not real competition to us. New Zealand and UK incidentally have 21 and 27 (including non-cabinet members) ministers respectively.
Looking at industry, Deutsche Post (integrated with DHL and Postbank), the second largest employer in the world with over 500,000 employees and operating in more than 220 countries and territories is managed by a board of management comprising of only 7 members. Perhaps the guys at Deutsche Post could learn a thing or two to learn from us about bigwigs, corporate hierarchies and organization structures.
Ministers and officials in the same level 36
State Ministers 12
Deputy Ministers 46
Executive Directors (includes Atoll chief, DEDs, AEDs 65
Atoll Chiefs 18
Director Generals (including Deputy DGs and Assistant DGs) 210
Directors (including DDs and ADs) 1368
Asst und sec 1153
Total Number of Verin (excluding the guys from MNDF and Police) 2,926
I had a look at figures from some familiar countries too. Sri Lanka with 87 ministers and 20 deputy ministers and Kenya with 33 ministers and 50 assistant ministers would probably be our closest rivals. But considering their populations of over 20 million and 35 million respectively, they are not real competition to us. New Zealand and UK incidentally have 21 and 27 (including non-cabinet members) ministers respectively.
Looking at industry, Deutsche Post (integrated with DHL and Postbank), the second largest employer in the world with over 500,000 employees and operating in more than 220 countries and territories is managed by a board of management comprising of only 7 members. Perhaps the guys at Deutsche Post could learn a thing or two to learn from us about bigwigs, corporate hierarchies and organization structures.
2 comments:
when you look at the veringe list one thing you note is that Raeesul Jumhooryaa is on a single page. Turning this thing into a list is a huge disservice to the thousands of people who have ascended up the sterile structure of Maldivian government to sit in leather upholstery and wear neat shirts. One must immediately convert this list into a large Organisational Chart with Raeesul Jumhooriyya at a lonely unreachable top and peons, messengers at the dirty bottom.
lol.
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