October 26, 2012
Ali Hamsa touts Malaysia’s PPP Model in India
Bernama reports:
The public-private partnerships (PPP) initiative, one of the major transformational approaches in the public sector in Malaysia, has worked well for the country’s development, says Chief Secretary to the Government Dato’ Seri Dr. Ali Hamsa.
The PPP model allows government allocation for development projects to be reduced and it can shift its attention to projects that will be implemented and funded by the private sector.
“The PPP experience has shown that truly business is no longer usual. It has also enriched both the public and the private sector, especially by sharing of best practices,” he said at the biennial conference of the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management. His presentation was titled “Reaffirming the Public Service Ethos: The Malaysian Experience”.
“Within a short period of time PPP has become a major mode of private sector driven financing for development projects,” said Ali. In just two years, it has attracted RM65 billion in private investment.
He said while government contracting with the private sector is not new, the emergence of public-private partnership as a form of policy implementation and service delivery was a new development for Malaysia.
“PPPs present new challenges in terms of contract specification, accountability arrangements and governance mechanisms,” he said.
Ali also said the Public-Private Partnership Unit (UKAS), which leads PPP implementation, has taken proactive steps to enhance integrity within its organisation.
Among the major functions of UKAS is to manage the Facilitation Fund, negotiating concession terms and conditions for PPP and the Facilitation Fund and implementing value management process.
UKAS has put in place specific measures to ensure that its function, roles and activities are implemented transparently and with integrity and, adhered to all specified regulations, he added. — Bernama
Don’t waste time & money on it – India will not be interested in this idea and perhaps they already have better partnerships going.
Ali Hamsa is Ali Hamsa. I prepared to give him a chance to show what he can do for the betterment of our civil service. But I don’t think he is a transformational leader and a mover and shaker. Like his predecessors, especially Tan Sri Sidek, he too wants a cushy job after he retirement.To do that he must play along with the politicians in power. He pioneered the march of civil service leaders during the last Merdeka celebrations. That is the precursor of things to come under his charge!
Public-Private sector partnership is not a new development. It is another name for Malaysia Incorporated which was in vogue during the Mahathir era. While it had negative consequences leading to crony capitalism, we cannot deny that private sector leaders are working well with the government, united in common purpose but not necessarily for the benefit of the rakyat.Ideas from the private sector have greatly influenced government policies and programmes today. What is required is government-civil society partnership for social issues and the environment now.–Din Merican
Are you talking about, Dato, Crony capitalism or state capitalism under the rubric of the PPP concept? I think in Malaysia, the PPP is dominated by the State with its GLCs and crony and UMNO proxy companies. Government has no business to be in business.
Ali Hamsa is trying to justify PPP and did so in India. I don’t think the Indians bought his ideas since they are masters of the game of the politics of business themselves. There in India, it is Sivaji the Boss.
Samy Vellu knows this since he is the Malaysian Government Advisor on India and Ambassador at Large to New Delhi. I wonder why Samy was not invited to speak. I guess, the Indians do not want to listen a Malaysian Sivaji. To borrow from Lok1, oouch! Maybe, cry Geranimo.
Fix the problem in Malaysia first Ali Hamsa before preaching to India.
Given the endemic corruption that is in India, they would end up with worst problem than us. BUT the problem in India is that its inefficiency is also almost legendary even if its abuse is also.
What India really need is a technology -based solution to its inefficiency. When there is a technology to exploit, India has proven able and even effiicient to excell in such as in IT and in drugs.
IF I were India, I would look at subsidising IT particularly mobile and location technology in govt to gain efficiency and accountability in govt then look at things like privatisation…
An extension of PPP is Pemudah the agency set to facilitate public sector-private sector dichotomy.
Pemudah meetings in Perak are held behind closed doors. What is decided at such meetings are not in public domain. That being the case, crony capitalism is set to flourish rather than diminish.
Not any Tom, Dick and Harry can be inducted into the committee, unless you have the means to splurge. So the privileged few still stand to gain.
Ali Hamsa going on a road show, of all places India, to propagate his idea of a tie-up between public and private sector seems hollow and comical. I believe the Indians are far smarter than what Ali thinks.
He is after all sucking up to his political masters for reasons best known to all of us here.
Cheers.
Cock eyed ideas from the cock eyed for the cock eyed.
as already pointed out, it is the same cheap old wine in new bottles. the work ethics in the public sector differs tremendously from that of the private sector as a result on the long run these marriages become unreliable. whereas in countries with reliable governmental control mechanisms it functions.
in Malaysia it is definitely a success (GLCs) because we HAVE to believe what they let us know.
thanks to all the imported mamaks like Mahathir and Co. Malaysian politics and everyday life is becoming like that in India where there is large scale corruption not only in the government but also everyday life is riddled with corruption, simple things like collecting your testimonial from the university in India involves paying the head clerk a small bribe called Tip.
just like in malaysia now, before elections envelopes with money would be distributed to the people.
in the early 70s during my student days in India, we malaysian students used to make fun of their corrupted politicians and boast how ‘uncorrupt’ Malaysia is.
Actually he pre-empted the present DG of UKAS, Dato Ahmad Husni, just because he’s the KSN and the former DG. Hey Commonwealth, you know – big deal! Mesti la nampak gaya sikit..!
These types of mamaks always think they are superior by all measures to their kin in India. Next year, he’ll be speaking in the Forbes CEO conference – he’s too late for this year’s show.
They have nothing much to show from the private-public cooperation in Malaysia so why are they so thick-skinned to blow their trumpet to foreign audiences? Sometimes I wonder, don’t these people know no shame? Or is it monkey see, monkey do?
Remember the PM himself went and blared to the entire world in NY on becoming “world’s best democracy” but back home, his cousin the Home Minister threw gas canisters, sprayed chemical water and baton-beating Bersih participants into hidden crevices of the LRT stations?
And boasting to the world about being moderates but supporting the likes of Perkasa and practising racial polarising politics back home?
Bunch of hypocrites…