The Government assigned the Ministry of Home Affairs to develop a project to continue rearranging administrative units at district and commune levels; to conduct a pilot study on rearranging provincial-level administrative units in accordance with the national and local master plans.
The content is stated in the action program to implement Resolution 27 of the Central Committee on continuing to build and perfect the socialist rule-of-law state of Vietnam in the new period, issued by the Government on May 12.
The pilot policy of arranging provincial-level administrative units was stated by the Central Government in Resolution 27, November 2022.
The Government also assigned the Ministry of Home Affairs to preside over the development of the organizational structure project of the 16th Government. The organization and operation of the Government and local authorities will be innovated towards building an administrative system that serves the people, is professional, rule of law, and modern.
The Ministry of Home Affairs is responsible for evaluating the results of the reorganization of local governments, administrative agencies, and public service units to ensure streamlining and quality; perfecting the organization of local governments in accordance with urban, rural, mountainous, island, and special administrative-economic areas. Some localities will reduce the level of government accordingly.
In the 2019-2021 period, the whole country has rearranged 21 district-level administrative units and 1,056 commune-level administrative units, thereby reducing 8 districts and 561 communes. The rearrangement of district and commune-level administrative units has reduced 3,437 commune-level agencies and 429 district-level agencies; streamlined nearly 3,600 commune-level payrolls and 141 district-level payrolls; reduced budget expenditures in the 2019-2021 period by more than 2,000 billion VND.
It is expected that by 2025, there will be hundreds more districts and more than 1,000 communes nationwide that do not meet the standards and need to be rearranged.
The Government Resolution requires accelerating administrative reform, improving the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees with three pillars: organizational structure; public service and civil servants; electronic administration and digital transformation. Unnecessary procedures that cause inconvenience to people and businesses and hinder competition will be cut.
The quality of human resources will be improved along with strong reforms in the civil service and civil servant system. A lifestyle that respects the Constitution and the law will be built in the administrative system. Some contents on the Constitution and the rule of law state will be included in the training program of the national education system.
The Resolution also states the principle that citizens are allowed to do everything that is not prohibited by law; citizen rights are inseparable from citizen obligations; the exercise of human rights and citizen rights must not infringe upon national and ethnic interests, and the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and individuals.
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