Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh said: "How can we have a more streamlined, more effective and efficient apparatus and use as little money as possible from the people to support the apparatus, and save the rest for socio-economic development to improve people's lives?"
On February 13, the National Assembly discussed in groups: Draft Law on Government Organization (amended); Draft Law on Local Government Organization (amended); Draft Resolution of the National Assembly regulating the handling of a number of issues related to the reorganization of the State apparatus.
Must continue to streamline
Speaking at the meeting, Politburo member and Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh said that we are holding an extraordinary meeting to resolve the legal basis, form organizations, and merge to implement Resolution 18. To merge this ministry with that ministry, this department with that department, we must start from the law. At the same time, we must amend the Law on Organization of the National Assembly, the Law on Organization of the Government, and the Law on Organization of Local Government to create a legal basis for building and implementing a streamlined and reasonable state apparatus.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the reason for streamlining is because currently the national budget is spending 70% on maintaining an overly cumbersome apparatus. China only spends more than 40% on maintaining the apparatus, while we spend 70% of the national budget on maintaining the apparatus. If we want to strengthen the national defense and security potential to protect the Fatherland, and build roads and infrastructure that rely on 30%, there is no other way but to streamline. To streamline, there must be a legal corridor.
“The streamlining is just the first step, we must continue to streamline. Therefore, the Law may also be amended in the near future,” said the Permanent Deputy Prime Minister.
The Deputy Prime Minister gave an example that currently, referring to international experience, more than 70% of countries do not have a district level. This level does not solve people's problems because the agency directly solving people's problems is the commune level, while the policies and guidelines are from the Central and provincial levels. Therefore, the district has money that the province pours in, then transfers it to the commune to give to the people.
"How can we have a more streamlined, more effective and efficient apparatus and use as little of the people's money to support the apparatus as possible, and save the rest for socio-economic development to improve people's lives?", the Deputy Prime Minister stated.
The law must perform both functions.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the Government pointed out: The first task that the extraordinary session set out was to create a legal corridor for state agencies to operate, to have laws to operate. But also taking this opportunity, following the trend from the previous session, a very new principle of thinking about law-making was set out, that is, to eliminate the prohibition of what cannot be managed. The law must perform both management and creation functions, creating a legal corridor for society to develop. In the past, we followed the direction that the law was for management, strict management, but creating a foundation for development was only at a certain level.
The second issue, according to the Deputy Prime Minister, is the innovation of law-making, which is strong decentralization. Yesterday, the National Assembly discussed the Law on the Organization of the National Assembly, which authorized the Standing Committee of the National Assembly to have many powers, and at the same time, the National Assembly also authorized the Government, decentralizing and decentralizing the Government. In today's session, the National Assembly discussed the Law on the Organization of the Government and the Law on the Organization of Local Government, also in the same spirit of innovation, raising the issue of decentralizing and decentralizing more powers to the lower levels.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the Government pointed out that these are two very important functions of these two laws. One is to create a legal basis for the operation of the apparatus, and the other is to strongly implement decentralization. The spirit of decentralization sets out principles that allow the Government to decentralize a lot to provincial chairmen. The responsibility of the provincial chairmen now is to develop a medium-term plan.
“In the spirit of innovation, this amendment sets out the principles of decentralization and delegation of power to pave the way. From now on, based on the list of key and important points of the localities, the Government will assign a certain amount of budget, the provincial chairman is responsible for which project to do first and decides, instead of the province having 10 projects, 100 billion divided equally among 10 projects, each project is 10 billion, then all 10 projects will last for 5-10 years. Now focus on 1-2 key projects of the province, finish this year, next year do other projects”, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government pointed out.
In addition, the Deputy Prime Minister also informed that the Government only controls key projects in principle, which must be projects that benefit the economy, key inter-regional infrastructure projects that implement national or provincial goals. To do so, this law must set out principles, not asking this or that ministry for permission, but making full decisions. In addition, the current draft Law on Government Organization also paves the way for decentralization and delegation of power.
Source: https://daidoanket.vn/tinh-gon-bo-may-de-khoi-thong-nguon-luc-dau-tu-10299821.html
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