HR Ministry Not Important?

I read this news on Star Online with considerable surprise. I hope The Star has gotten their information wrong, as they have a tendency to sometimes.

2. I cannot fathom how the Ministry of Human Resources is less important than the Works Ministry. Given the increasing emphasis on human capital development, and Prime Minister Najib’s assertion of a People First, Performance Now policy, I would assume that it is an honour to be placed in charge of human capital development.

3. Perhaps some of these close-minded politicians referred to the ‘contracts-awarding’ power of the Works Minister. If that’s the case, then they have no place in the Cabinet to begin with.

4. The importance of a Ministry is a sum of how the Minister and his officials project themselves and evolves with times. In the first cabinet of Tunku Abdul Rahman, Agriculture and Rural Development were right at the top of the ‘list of important’ ministries, along with the Finance Minister and Prime Minister.

5. I hope the Human Resources Minister will openly dismiss this as mere speculations and the works of some irresponsible elements within his party. To say the Ministry of Human Resources is ‘not prestigious’ reflect badly on how much he has achieved as a Minister so far.