The number of ministries in Armenia will be almost curtail 

ArmInfo.The new government will not have 17 ministers, as it is today, but 9 or 11. First Deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan told reporters on November 14.

According to him, the state apparatus in its current form is  over-inflated. There are numerous GNPOs, Funds and Program  Implementation Bureaus, whose mission today is not completely clear.  There are those that carry out functions that either duplicate the  work carried out by an employee of the ministry, or it can be  entrusted to the ministries themselves. As a result, in the above  organizations there are people who get more work for the same work  than a civil servant in the ministry.

In this regard, as the first First Deputy Prime Minister believes, it  is necessary to reform the entire state apparatus, to reduce it  somewhere, to add it somewhere. In general, according to Mirzoyan,  out of 17 existing ministries, 9 or 11 will probably remain in the  new cabinet.

At the same time, as Mirzoyan assured, the "optimization" of the  state apparatus does not imply a mechanical reduction of personnel.  It is possible that they will be reduced somewhere, since they think  that the work currently performed by 300 employees can be done by  250, but it is also possible that additional personnel will be  attracted to improve the quality of work. As a result, as the  representative of the government assured, all steps will be aimed  only at increasing the productivity of the state apparatus.

To note, the former government, under the leadership of Prime  Minister Karen Karapetyan, earlier "optimized" the work of the  Cabinet. Instead of 18 ministries, the new Cabinet entered 17. The  18th was the "superfluous" Ministry of Urban Development, which was  reorganized into the Committee.