The Council of Ministers approved the bill establishing the National Infrastructure Authority (ANI). The bill will go to Congress on a “high priority” basis. This institution will absorb the so-called. Authorization for reconstruction with changes.
The mentioned organization, according to the executive branch, will have among its strategic goals the implementation of symbolic works throughout the country, the prevention and control of hydrographic basins in order to avoid landslides and floods, as well as, among other things, the improvement of the Rimak river basin. . . .
Alberto Otarola, head of the cabinet, explained that this organization will absorb ARCC to carry out the work envisaged in the National Infrastructure Plan. and related to early warning services, river flow and river protection.
“This National Infrastructure Authority will be in charge of landmark works and will try to address the country’s sol 117 billion infrastructure deficit. This body will be a permanent body at the national level, which will work with the administration of the relevant ministries and regional governments, the mayors of the entire country, on the priority and landmark work that the country needs,” Otarola commented.
The bill must be debated and then put to a full vote in Congress to see if it gets the green light. For Mary Mollo, ESAN Disaster Risk Management Specialistthe government should be more clear about what refers to “emblematic works”.
“What do we need to understand with the ANI (National Infrastructure Authority): what is meant by symbolic works? What will be understood in an integrated approach to disaster risk and what is the management and prevention of water resources? one of the basins such as the Rimak River. We should not create an organization to erase what we failed to do with ARCC, but rather have an institution that provides the country with the infrastructure for the sustainable development process,” he said. for RPP news.
Mollo noted that ARCC mishandled public money in works which didn’t work correctly. So he argued that there should be better control.
“Having a national authority responsible for watershed prevention and management means a clear understanding of what we understand with it, because the same story as with ARCC, with small-scale works such as cleaning rivers from silt, which does not concern management of water resources from the basin in the upper, middle part, according to the purpose of water and in the lower part of the valleys. There should be an integrated approach that concerns not only infrastructure management, but also its maintenance. “, he stressed.
SNI and CCL on project
Miguel Onores Medina, president of the CCL Building and Engineering Guild, welcomed the government’s initiative to prevent before a possible arrival El Niño phenomenonbut he warned of the danger of said organization becoming bureaucratic.
“As with any initiative, there are risks and these government initiatives tend to be bureaucratic. In order for them to achieve their goal, they would have to somehow deactivate or liquidate the executive bodies on which this new organization could be exercised, but there are also exercising powers in ministries such as Pronied. Regional governments are performing and, by the way, are bad at it, so they will have to take into account many aspects for this to work,” he said.
Jesus Salazar Nishi, President of the National Society of Industry (SNI), also made this announcement in the RPP and regretted that the Redevelopment Administration with changes did not indicate preventive work against natural phenomena. In that sense, he welcomed the fact that President Dina Boluarte was promoting this new structure.
“This decentralized government body should be the body that draws up the strategic plan for the national infrastructure. It should be an organism in which a technical solution is guaranteed, where technology prevails over politics,” said Salazar Nishi.
had the same opinion Carlos Neuhaus, Vice President of the National Society for Building and Infrastructure, who recommended that the GA should be an autonomous body headed by men well trained for the job.
“Let it be technical, like the Banking Authority, like some of these autonomous entities, that its powers are superior to governments, so that they are run by specialized people. The bureaucracy must be chosen among the best. Here, projects are often done in “Break Out” order, there is a municipality that wants to build a bullring or a stadium for five thousand people when the population is only one thousand inhabitants. At the national level, there is no control over what public administration is and there is a huge underutilization of budgets allocated for investment,” he said.
How much should you invest in ANI?
The Reconstruction Authority, as amended, had a budget to use S$8,150 million in 2023 for work in the 13 El Niño Costero-affected regions. After his virtual disappearance, another discussion concerns the amount of money that the Infrastructure Authority should use to achieve its goals. Use a larger budget or use only the one left by ARCC?
“Every project goes through an economic issue, the budget and amount of resources must be needed to cover the cost of the work, but always in Peru, when the technical files are compiled, they do not take into account the real prices, so we get work in progress. works because the budget has been exhausted. The budget is based on having a fiscal box and priorities, also because you can’t do everything at once,” said Miguel Honores, president of the CCL Construction and Engineering Guild..
For Henry Raphael, UPC Graduate School’s master’s degree professor of public administration, the management of the money given to him must be used quickly, given the damage caused by recent landslides and rains across the country.
“It is useless to raise the budget if there is no quality or capacity for execution, which is what we observe in regional governments and in some ministries, where budgets are approved and not executed, and if they are executed, then not with the quality or at the time that is needed. All investment work must have a public need, but also a time of execution. If we are going to create an Infrastructure Department that has the resources, but does not do it quickly and efficiently, it will again turn into a slow entity
it does not solve the problem in due time,” he explained.
Rafael emphasized the importance of accelerating all processes after the completion of the work on the National Infrastructure Authority.
“What is interesting about a measure that seeks to have some semblance of a coordinating and executing body at the same time is to speed up its actions that go beyond the ministry, since this, with a wide variety of functions and scope of action, sometimes makes it much slower, and bureaucratic actions for immediate reconstruction, on the other hand, when a body of this type is created, it tends to speed up the action,” he added.
Source: RPP
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