Nearly P600-M budget cut to affect CSC's digitization efforts

The nearly P600 million slash in the proposed 2022 budget of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) will affect its digitization efforts, CSC chairperson Alicia Bala said Tuesday.

During the budget hearing at the House committee on appropriations, Bala said they have requested P2.48 billion for 2022, but the approved budget under the National Expenditure Program for the commission is only P1.89 billion.

Bala said the budget slash will affect CSC's efforts to improve their information and communications technology field.

"We are now in the process of developing an online examination system and the learning and management system for the delivery of our capability building programs for the bureaucracy, the civil servants," she said.

"We would also include the creation of the information and communication technology office because of the transition to digital platforms, we really need a dedicated office to ensure that all digital needs of the commission should be realized," Bala added.

Amid the pandemic, the CSC slowly shifted to webinars and e-learning methods to provide their service to the public, she said.

Bala said the CSC is now coordinating with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) regarding its plan to conduct civil service examinations online.

She also said the CSC is planning to put up their own field offices instead of being hosted by government agencies, specifically local government units, and improve some of their current buildings.—AOL, GMA News