Sharing with reporters of the Industry and Trade Newspaper about the merger and streamlining of the organizational apparatus, Associate Professor, Dr. Dinh Trong Thinh - an economic expert, commented that the rearrangement of the payroll and streamlining of the state civil servant apparatus is one of the important issues to improve labor productivity, creating momentum to promote growth, making the economy develop better.
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| Streamlining the apparatus and creating breakthroughs is a revolution. (Photo: MH) |
According to him, currently, in Vietnam, there is one civil servant for every nine people, while in other countries, there are only one civil servant for every few hundred people. Thus, the number of management staff in Vietnam is too large. In previous years, 70% of state budget expenditures were regular expenditures. This figure has decreased since then but is still at 60-70%. However, since 2020, partly due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the state budget has also increased spending on disease prevention and treatment, social security support, and production support, so the regular expenditure of the state budget has increased. Regular budget expenditures accounting for a large proportion will lead to no more money for development investment. Borrowing for investment will be even more difficult. Therefore, innovation, reform, and streamlining of the payroll are necessary.
We are not just seeing this now. In fact, we have seen and done this and have achieved some important results, initially creating positive changes in innovation, reorganizing the apparatus, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the operations of agencies, units and organizations in the political system.
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dinh Trong Thinh |
However, the arrangement of the apparatus is still not synchronous, lacking in comprehensiveness, not associated with streamlining the payroll, restructuring and improving the quality of the staff, civil servants and public employees. The apparatus of the political system is still cumbersome, with many levels and focal points; the functions, tasks, powers and working relationships of many agencies, units and organizations are unclear, still duplicated and overlapping; decentralization and delegation of power to localities are not strong, not synchronous, not reasonable, not meeting the requirements and tasks of the new period...
In recent statements, General Secretary To Lam has always emphasized that innovation and reorganization of the political system to be streamlined, strong, efficient, effective and efficient is an urgent requirement of the current practical situation.
The General Secretary in particular and the Party Central Committee have sent out a “signal” of a reduction and merger of many organizations, units and agencies of both the Party and the Government. This is considered one of the important and extremely drastic moves to help the apparatus become streamlined, strong, efficient, effective and efficient; avoid overlapping functions and the phenomenon of “duplication” between Party and State agencies, which can easily create a great waste of resources; thereby helping Vietnam to step into a new era of the nation.
Accordingly, for ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies directly under the Government, the Politburo requested to study and propose merging and terminating the operations of a number of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies directly under the Government. This will help to reduce the staffing levels both above and below. This is not a mechanical addition but a combination of work. From there, it will facilitate the processing and reduce the number of people in charge of the work. Build a proactive, flexible mechanism, responsible for each task.
Setting an example from above will help motivate those below. Of course, this depends on many issues. First of all, it is the heart of the person who arranges and organizes the apparatus. Second, this arrangement must identify the work, then we can arrange suitable human resources, choose people with heart, vision, and talent.
We hope that streamlining the apparatus, along with identifying the titles and tasks for each job in the management apparatus, will contribute to improving production capacity and efficiency, thereby not only implementing salary reform, reducing regular expenditures of the state budget, but also creating momentum to promote reform and innovation in the entire national economy in the new period of 2025-2030 and the following years.
Regarding the content of streamlining the apparatus, at the meeting with voters in Hung Yen city to report on the results of the 8th session of the 15th National Assembly and listen to voters' opinions and recommendations taking place on the afternoon of December 2, General Secretary To Lam stated that all levels and sectors from the central to grassroots levels must determine the highest political determination in implementing this policy with the spirit of "the central government sets the example, the provinces and districts follow" and must do so urgently. Each level and each sector must closely follow the plan to summarize and propose models for their agencies and units to ensure progress (ministries and sectors must complete in December 2024); aiming for the common goal of completing and reporting to the Central Government the plan to arrange and perfect the organization and apparatus of the political system in the first quarter of 2025. Streamlining does not mean mechanically cutting down, but eliminating unnecessary positions, reducing ineffective work, thereby focusing resources on key areas, on truly worthy and suitable people. Do not let state agencies become a "safe haven" for weak officials. Each agency and unit must carry out well the political and ideological work and the regime and policies for cadres, party members, civil servants, public employees and workers affected by the restructuring of the organization and apparatus; ensure fairness, transparency, objectivity and avoid complications. Streamlining the apparatus requires sacrifices from cadres and party members. |
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