Ministry of Industry and Trade achieved 44.52% rate in streamlining staff

Difficulties in converting public service units into joint stock companies

The delegation to supervise the implementation of policies and laws on innovation of the organizational and management system, improving the quality and efficiency of operations of public service units in the period of 2018 - 2023 has just worked with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment .

At the meeting, Chairman of the Law Committee Hoang Thanh Tung - Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Supervisory Delegation said that the reports of the ministries showed that the rate of reduction in the number of public service units of each ministry in the period of 2015 - 2021 has not reached the target.

Delegates attending the meeting. Photo: QH

Specifically, the Ministry of Industry and Trade reduced 3 units (66/69 units). Meanwhile, up to now, the number of employees at the ministry's public service units has decreased by at least 10% compared to the public service payroll in 2015. In the period 2015 - 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has reduced the number of employees by 7,007 people, reaching a rate of 44.52%.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment reduced 7 units (90/97 units), equivalent to nearly 7.22%. The number of people working on state salaries decreased by 4.6% compared to 2021, by 55.8% compared to 2017, and by 77.5% compared to 2015.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has reduced 8 units (106/114 units), equivalent to nearly 7.02%. By 2023, the payroll from the state budget in public service units under the ministry has decreased by 6.8% compared to 2021.

According to the report of the three ministries, the conversion of public service units into joint stock companies and other types of enterprises has achieved low results and encountered many difficulties.

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Faced with this situation, the members of the Supervisory Delegation requested the ministries to clearly state the difficulties and obstacles in implementation and the causes, including both subjective and objective causes due to the lack of timely, complete and specific mechanisms and policies. At the same time, they proposed specific solutions and recommendations to implement the goal of Resolution No. 19-NQ/TW, which is that by 2025, 100% of economic and other public service units will be qualified to complete the transformation into joint stock companies.

Deputy Chairwoman of the Judiciary Committee Mai Thi Phuong Hoa asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to share its experience after equitizing public service units. Is this unit operating effectively? Based on that, it is possible to consider proposing to competent authorities to consider and evaluate the conversion of public service units into joint stock companies.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Sinh Nhat Tan speaks. Photo: Ho Long

Explaining to the Supervisory Delegation, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Sinh Nhat Tan admitted that the equitization rate of public service units is still very low and facing many difficulties and obstacles. For example, the Textile Research Institute was transformed into a joint stock company in 2017 but to date still has about 55% state capital and its operations are only at a moderate level.

The biggest difficulty, according to the Deputy Minister, is that through the transfer of shares, the activities of the Textile Research Institute will still mainly focus on research, based on the old assets from before. In particular, the assets of the institute mainly belong to intellectual property, which in terms of nature is not considered as other types of material assets.

In addition, units still face difficulties in determining the value and transferring research results using state budget to organizations and enterprises for application in production and business, so the conversion and formation of science and technology enterprises from research institutes is still very limited.

In his concluding remarks, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Khac Dinh - Head of the National Assembly Standing Committee's Supervisory Delegation, assigned the Standing Committee of the Supervisory Delegation to fully record opinions to propose and discuss with relevant ministries and the Government at the upcoming working session; requested members of the Supervisory Delegation to study and propose contents to be included in the report on supervision results and resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee.

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