TIRANA, June 20 /ATA/ – By Maela Marini/ -As many as 101 teachers throughout Albania are beneficiaries of an estimated ALL 8400 salary increase after referring their complaint to co-governance platform shqiperiaqeduam.al which resulted in correction of a Council of Ministers Decision.
At a meeting with co-ordinators of co-governance, Prime Minister Edi Rama reiterated his appeal for application to co-governance platform which, according to him, sets in train the entire legal and administrative mechanism of the government to address the problem of every citizen or community.
“I am very pleased that more and more ordinary people are taking to the platform each day, just as the positive results increase in number thanks to increasing participation of people confident that ultimately this is an instrument to be used and can bring the long-awaited solution, “ Rama said.
He cited the example of “Pavarësia” school teachers who got their grievance settled after referring it to this platform resulting in correction of a Council of Ministers Decision.
Taulant Brahimuço, a teacher of Vlora’s vocational school “Pavarësia,” addressed this platform over a 2017 CoM decision, no 175, saying: The category of vocational school teachers was not included in this CoM decision on salary increase in pre-university system.
He stressed that the grievance was initially filed to the Ministry of Finance, which confirmed the concern over the CoM decision in question. After referring their complaint with co-governance platform it was subsequently corrected and approved on May 16.
The remedy in some cases is delayed due to bureaucracy and lack of immediate attention, which means that the platform enables the reversal in the culture of administration: immediate attention to a problem directly affecting a person, a family, or a whole group of people, as in the case of vocational education teachers.
The platform, according to him, is nothing but a technological transformation of antiquated and traditional public relations offices, which have proved useless.
“Transforming the entire office network into an application in the pocket of every citizen amounts to creating a very expeditious system linking the citizen up with the top official in the sector related to the concern. The Minister is at disposal of the citizen and in 3 minutes’ time the connection the people have requested is made,” Rama said.
This instrument, according to him, remedies the problem and rules out the need for acquaintance or bribe to get the grievance settled.
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