DHAKA: Greece will crack down on tax evasion and streamline its civil service in its bid to secure a bailout extension.

Minister of state Nikos Pappas says, reports the BBC.

The government is working on a package of reforms that it must submit to international creditors on Monday.

If the reforms are approved, Greece will be granted a vital four-month extension on its debt repayments.

Pappas said the reforms being proposed would take the Greek economy ‘out of sedation’.

‘We are compiling a list of measures to make the Greek civil service more effective and to combat tax evasion,’ he told Greece’s Mega Channel.

He added that talks this week would be ‘a daily battle... every centimetre of ground must be won with effort’.

BDST: 2149 HRS, FEB 22, 2015