OSAKA -- In an attempt to avoid bankruptcy or fiscal intervention from the central government, the Osaka Prefectural Government submitted a 10-year reform program Friday that includes cutting 3,000 jobs and abolishing its Bureau of Public Enterprise.

The administrative and financial reform program, to start in April, calls for the prefectural government to cut 3,000 of its current 15,500 administrative employees. In the past six years, 1,400 jobs have been cut amid the worst financial crisis of any prefecture in the country.

Prefectural officials said local government productivity will be improved by 10 percent in the next two years via information technology.