Reduce 5 ministries, 3 agencies under the Government, basically eliminate general departments and equivalents
Báo Dân trí•17/12/2024
It is expected that the Government apparatus will have 13 ministries and 4 ministerial-level agencies, reducing 5 ministries and 3 agencies directly under the Government; reducing 12/13 general departments and organizations equivalent to general departments under ministries and ministerial-level agencies.
Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra (Photo: Phuong Hoa/VNA).
Regarding the arrangement and streamlining of the Government apparatus, on the morning of December 17, in an interview with VNA reporters, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that according to the plan to merge and consolidate a number of ministries and agencies, the Government apparatus is expected to have 13 ministries, 4 ministerial-level agencies, reducing 5 ministries and 3 agencies directly under the Government; reducing 12/13 general departments and organizations equivalent to general departments under ministries and ministerial-level agencies; 500 departments and equivalents under ministries and general departments; 177 departments under ministries, ministerial-level agencies and equivalents; 190 public service units under ministries and agencies within ministries. This number is higher than the direction set by the Central Government. The Ministry of Home Affairs has completed the entire summary report of Resolution 18-NQ/TW; The project of merging, consolidating, transferring functions, tasks, organizational apparatus and related documents together with the project of ending the activities of the Party Executive Committee, establishing the Government Party Committee, Party Committees, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies under the Government. After the arrangement and reduction of focal points, adjustment of state management functions and tasks of ministries and ministerial-level agencies, the current overlapping problems have basically been overcome. "The organizations after the arrangement and consolidation will reduce 35-40% of focal points, the remaining organizations arranged internally will reduce at least 15%. Basically, the general departments and equivalent organizations will be eliminated. This number is very large, initially it is expected to reduce 500 departments under ministries and general departments," said Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra. The Minister also said that the Ministry of Home Affairs is consulting to complete all related reports and projects to submit to the Politburo and the Central Steering Committee on December 25, 2024. This is an unprecedented amount of work, both guiding, urging, synthesizing, coordinating the review of relevant legal documents, and orienting the arrangement of cadres, civil servants, and public employees within the Ministry's authority. According to her, "the most important thing is that after the arrangement, there will be policies for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and related workers to stabilize their lives." Therefore, the Ministry of Home Affairs has urgently worked day and night to develop policies and regimes, and submit them to competent authorities for timely consideration. The Ministry has currently completed the draft Decree on policies and regimes for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and contract workers in the arrangement of the apparatus of the political system. This content has been reported to the Party Committee, the Government's Steering Committee to report to the Politburo in the next few days. This draft decree puts forward very important viewpoints and principles. The spirit of the policy is "to make a revolution to streamline the apparatus, the mechanisms and policies will also be revolutionary." Therefore, this policy requires speed, strength, prominence, humanity, fairness, ensuring a reasonable correlation between subjects, in order to stabilize life, ensure rights and interests for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers so that "no one is left behind in the process of rearranging and streamlining the organizational apparatus"; focusing on special and outstanding priorities to encourage subjects to retire immediately and retire within 12 months from the time the agency, organization, or unit implements the rearrangement according to the decision of the competent authority. According to the Minister, the policy development is associated with the responsibility of the head of the agency or unit in evaluating, screening, and selecting subjects of civil servants and public employees to retire, linking staff streamlining with restructuring and improving the quality of the cadres, civil servants, and public employees; requiring determination to maintain and retain good cadres and public employees with capacity and qualities equal to the task, not allowing "brain drain." The Minister of Home Affairs stated that this is not only a revolution to streamline the organizational apparatus but also a "revolution to liberate thoughts so that we can all change towards a better future"; especially changing thinking, vision and new awareness and especially reforming innovation and development, making the best use of the human factor, in order to promote the development of productive forces, bringing the country firmly into a new era: an era of strength, prosperity and happiness as the General Secretary said. However, this is a revolution full of difficulties, challenges, complexities, sensitivity, hardships and obstacles, requiring courage, will, intelligence, solidarity, unity, dedication, courage and sacrifice of cadres, leaders and heads of the political system with a spirit of solidarity, determination and drasticness so that the implementation can be carried out very quickly, positively and effectively. "Our Party and the leader of our Party, General Secretary To Lam, have chosen a very special time to decide to carry out this revolution," emphasizing this, she affirmed that this is a golden time, of historical significance: Preparing for Party Congresses at all levels towards the 14th National Party Congress with major decisions for the country to enter a new era; preparing the country to welcome the 95th anniversary of the Party's founding, 50 years of the complete liberation of the South, national reunification; 80 years of the founding of the country. This is also an urgent and urgent time for the country to develop in accordance with the changes of the times, the trend of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digital transformation that is taking place strongly; a factor converging the Party's will with the people's hearts. In just over a month with the motto of the Central Government doing first, the local authorities doing later, the Central Government not waiting for the province, the province not waiting for the district, the district not waiting for the commune, this revolution with the consistent and drastic leadership and direction from the Politburo, the Central Executive Committee, the head of the Central Organizing Committee, the Central Organizing Committee's advisory body has created a strong "heat", spreading widely throughout the political system from the Central to the local level and the whole society. "With the spirit of the whole Party, the whole people, comprehensive, synchronous, scientific, cautious, methodical and rapid, the results so far are developing very positively and effectively from the Central political system to 63 provinces and cities that are urgently accompanying the Central Government," said Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra. The Minister believes that with the determination and drastic spirit of the entire political system in streamlining the apparatus with the goal of "Refined - Lean - Strong - Effective - Efficient - Effective", with the momentum that has been and is being done, the implementation of the arrangement and streamlining of the apparatus will be successful./.
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