Agency: Kazakhstan's state planning system requires further improvement

Deputy Chairman of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan Arken Utenov took part in a round table organized by the Institute of Parliamentarism on improving the system of state planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The round table was devoted to the issues of the State Planning System and its possible legislative regulation.

The event was attended by deputies of the Mazhilis of the Parliament, experts and representatives of state bodies.

In his speech, the Deputy Chairman of the Agency outlined the main systemic problems of state planning and ways to solve them related to the definition of priorities, financial security of program documents, decomposition of indicators, effective implementation of tasks.

Regarding the legislative regulation of the sphere, Arken Utenov summarized that "the adoption of the law at this stage can strengthen the bureaucracy and make the system unwieldy, whereas now, taking into account current problems and tasks, a more flexible design is required."

In general, the participants of the round table exchanged positions, and also agreed that the system of state planning in Kazakhstan requires further improvement.