State agencies have been selling old cars and will auction more cars to recoup money from the excessive purchase of cars by state enterprises and agencies.
Agencies are wasting public money on excessive numbers of new cars
According to the Public Asset Management Agency, state agencies sold 264 cars from January to June 17. The cars were sold for USD17,700 compared to their original price of USD3.6m. 20 cars were transferred to other agencies that were short of vehicles.
However eight out of 42 agencies and 18 out of 62 provinces and cities still haven't submitted their reports. Deputy head of the Public Asset Management Agency Ta Thanh Tu said they still hadn't had the exact number on the cars sold last year.
On July 2, Tu said they would auction off old cars. More information will be updated on the web portals of local agencies and authorities.
According to the Decision 32 on the management and use of state cars, state administrative agency is allowed to have a maximum of three cars. During a meeting, vice chairman of Hanoi Nguyen Doan Toan proposed to let all agencies in the city to have four cars because of their supposed huge workload. The authorities of Quang Nam Province also made the same proposition.
The reports came after agencies were criticised for wasting money on the excessive purchase of cars. State agencies bought 611 new cars valued at USD27m dollar value please in 2015 according to the Ministry of Finance, while 7,000 state-owned vehicles still remained unused. In addition, lots of money was also being wasted on idle drivers, yet many agencies have refused to sell older cars while asking to buy newer models.
