Need to add staff to the arrangement agency

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Hong - Head of the Department of Internal Affairs of Thang Binh district, representing the drafting unit, presented the draft project. Photo: MT

Streamline the apparatus

Thang Binh district currently has 11 specialized agencies including: Office of the District People's Council & People's Committee, District Inspectorate, Department of Internal Affairs, Department of Justice, Department of Culture & Sports, Department of Education & Training, Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, Department of Finance - Planning, Department of Agriculture & Rural Development, Department of Economy & Infrastructure, Department of Natural Resources & Environment; in addition, there are 4 public service units including: Center for Agricultural Technology, Center for Culture - Sports & Information - Tourism, Center for Land Fund Development and Industry - Services, Project Management Board - Urban. Accordingly, a total of 105 civil servant positions and 61 public employee positions are assigned.

According to the project, for professional agencies, Thang Binh district will merge the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs into the Department of Home Affairs to form the Department of Home Affairs; merge the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to form the Department of Agriculture and Environment; establish the Department of Economy, Infrastructure and Urban Areas, tentatively called the Department of Economy, Infrastructure and Urban Areas of Thang Binh district; establish the Department of Culture, Science and Information.

Delegates contribute ideas to the project. Photo: MT

Receive and transfer the functions and tasks of the Office of the District People's Council & People's Committee, the Department of Education and Training, and the Department of Finance and Planning. Maintain the functions, tasks and names of the two agencies of the District Inspectorate and the District Justice Department.

Regarding mass associations, in the immediate future, we will maintain the 9 associations assigned by the Party and State, and at the same time, we will study and review to arrange the associations appropriately in the coming time.

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Hong - Head of the Department of Internal Affairs of Thang Binh district, representative of the unit drafting the project, said that after the arrangement and consolidation, Thang Binh district has 9 professional agencies under the district People's Committee, reducing 2 agencies. The time to implement the arrangement and consolidation of professional agencies and public service units under the district People's Committee is to be completed before February 20, 2025.

Need to increase staffing in the arranging agency

At the conference, delegates said that the arrangement and consolidation of specialized agencies, public service units under the People's Committee of Thang Binh district and associations assigned tasks by the Party and State had been agreed upon from the Central to the local level, so it was convenient for implementation. The names of the departments after the merger were also consistent with the province's orientation.

Mr. Nguyen Huu Hiep - Chairman of the Association for Promotion of Education of Thang Binh district said that the district has no ethnic minorities, so he proposed to remove the management of ethnic affairs from the functions and tasks of the district's Department of Internal Affairs.

Scene of the conference to review the project on Reorganizing and perfecting specialized agencies, public service units under the District People's Committee and Associations assigned by the Party and State, organized by the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Thang Binh District. Photo: MT

Ms. Tran Thi Kim Hien - Head of the Advisory Board for Democracy - Law and Religion, Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Thang Binh district said that the Office of the People's Council & People's Committee of the district advises and helps the District People's Committee perform the function of state management of health.

However, when performing these functions, the Office of the District People's Council and People's Committee only has part-time specialists without medical expertise.

"To ensure and promote the assigned functions and tasks of state management of health, the Office of the District People's Council and People's Committee must have a staff member with medical expertise," said Ms. Tran Thi Kim Hien.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu - Deputy Head of the Economic and Infrastructure Department said that according to the draft project, the Economic and Infrastructure Department will receive 2 functions and tasks: inspecting and advising on handling administrative violations in the fields of construction order, road and railway traffic from the District Urban Project Management Board; receiving the function of managing industrial clusters from the Center for Land Fund Development and Industry - Services.

Currently, the Economic and Infrastructure Department has 4 civil servants in charge. If it receives more tasks but does not assign people, it will be difficult. Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu proposed to assign one more staff to the department to carry out the tasks.

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Hong said that according to the project, in the immediate future, the number of deputy heads of agencies after the rearrangement may be higher than the regulations. The District People's Committee will develop a plan to reduce the number of deputy heads according to general regulations within 5 years (from the date the competent authority approves the project).

Regarding ethnic management, because Thang Binh district does not have enough 5,000 ethnic minorities, there is no ethnic and religious department like in the province (Department of Home Affairs), but in Thang Binh district, there are ethnic minorities who are teachers and civil servants, so the Department of Home Affairs must have the function of managing ethnic affairs within the functions and tasks of the department.

Regarding the additional staffing for agencies after the merger and consolidation, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phong - Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Thang Binh district said that he would recommend that the agency drafting the project consider upgrading the deputy position from one person to two people out of a total of 7 positions assigned to the Department of Culture, Science and Information and increase one quota for civil servants not holding leadership positions in the Department of Economy - Infrastructure and Urban Areas to facilitate work. The drafting agency is requested to promptly complete the project to be submitted at the 21st Session of the District People's Council, scheduled to take place on February 18, 2025.

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