Ho Chi Minh City aims that after the reorganization, the new apparatus must operate smoothly, serving people and businesses better.
Implementing Resolution 18-NQ/TW of the Central Committee on streamlining the apparatus, the Executive Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, term XI, 2020 - 2025, unanimously approved the draft Project on restructuring the apparatus of the city's political system.
Choose the best quality arrangement
According to the draft project, after the arrangement, at the city level, the specialized agencies assisting the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee will be reduced from 6 to 5; the Party Committees directly under the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee will be reduced from 51 to 27 (22 Party Committees of districts, Thu Duc City and 5 Party Committees at the grassroots level); the activities of 11 Party delegations and 3 Party executive committees will be terminated.
Under the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, the number of specialized agencies was reduced from 21 to 15 (including the Department of Tourism), 8 administrative agencies were reduced to 2; 35 public service units were reduced to 32. Ho Chi Minh City proposed to allow the continued implementation of the pilot project to establish the Department of Food Safety according to Resolution 98/2023/QH15 of the National Assembly, the department is not included in this arrangement.
At the district level and equivalent, after the reorganization, there will be a reduction of 1 specialized agency to advise and assist the district-level Party Committee. The Thu Duc City People's Committee will reduce from 16 specialized departments to 14. The agencies and units under the district People's Committee will reduce from 12 specialized departments to 10 departments.
In addition, each agency and unit in the city's political system proactively reviews and develops a plan to streamline the organizational structure; strives to reduce 15% of internal units and has a roadmap to reduce staff according to regulations. The arrangement of Ho Chi Minh City's press agencies according to a suitable model, closely following Decision 362/2019/TTg of the Prime Minister on approving the planning for press development and management until 2025 and the guiding views of the Central Steering Committee and the Central Propaganda Department for the press system.
Head of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee's Organization Committee Van Thi Bach Tuyet said that the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee highly agreed on the viewpoints and directions of the Central Committee and determined that the Politburo's policy on summarizing Resolution 18 must be implemented with the highest political determination. Party committees, Party organizations, agencies, and units at the city and district levels, first of all, leaders and heads, need to be exemplary, proactive, and determined in carrying out this task.
"Although urgent, the streamlining of the organizational apparatus needs to be carefully studied and its impacts carefully assessed to have the best quality plan" - Head of the Organizing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee acknowledged.
Ho Chi Minh City determined to retain talented people in the apparatus after restructuring and streamlining the payroll. Photo: HOANG TRIEU
Proactive, decisive, urgent
Ho Chi Minh City's determination to reorganize its apparatus was affirmed when the city chose the theme for 2025 as "Focusing on reorganizing the apparatus to be streamlined - strong - effective - efficient - effective; promoting digital transformation; implementing Resolution 98 of the National Assembly; fundamentally resolving the city's difficulties and backlogs".
Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen said that in recent times, the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee has closely followed the direction of the Central Government, working with a spirit of determination, urgency, positivity, and concentration to complete the task of summarizing Resolution 18. During the implementation process, Ho Chi Minh City has always closely followed the direction of the Central Government, and at the same time boldly proposed recommendations suitable to the characteristics of the city.
"HCMC strictly follows the Central's direction, implements the principle of one agency performing many tasks, one task is assigned to only one agency to preside over and take primary responsibility, ends intermediary organizations and organizations with overlapping functions and tasks; resolutely streamlines internal structure and organization; assigns responsibility to the head of each agency and affiliated unit to proactively review and develop a plan to streamline within their agency and unit" - Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen said.
The Secretary of the City Party Committee emphasized the need to reorganize the apparatus to make it truly streamlined, strong, efficient, effective, and efficient. After the reorganization, it is necessary to ensure that the new apparatus is better; operational immediately, without leaving any vacant areas or fields; and operating smoothly to serve the people and businesses better and better.
"We must implement it most resolutely with the most revolutionary spirit as General Secretary To Lam has directed. That means running and lining up at the same time, the Central level does not wait for the provincial level, the provincial level does not wait for the district level and the district level does not wait for the grassroots level, each level has the initiative" - Mr. Nguyen Van Nen noted.
At the same time, Ho Chi Minh City is also studying the issuance of policies on regimes for cadres and civil servants affected by the restructuring and streamlining of the apparatus. According to the Secretary of the City Party Committee, the resolution of the regime must consider each specific case, implement fairly, empathetically and reasonably; when issued, policies must be comprehensive, close to reality and ensure requirements.
Internal restructuring, process review
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai also directed that departments, branches, and localities, whether they need to be restructured or not, must restructure internally, review procedures, and improve operational efficiency.
Agencies subject to reorganization must identify which regulations and legal documents the Central Government needs to amend to serve the operations of the new apparatus.
"The Minister of Justice has identified that there are about 184 laws and over 200 legal documents that need to be amended to serve the arrangement. We ourselves, as the ones directly involved, must study any amendments that need to be made" - the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requested.
Associate Professor, Dr. Phan Thanh Binh
Associate Professor, Dr. Phan Thanh Binh, former member of the Party Central Committee, former member of the National Assembly Standing Committee:
Focus on specific factors
Ho Chi Minh City is a unique urban area. When arranging the apparatus, let's try to ask some questions: How is the food safety issue for 10 million people in Ho Chi Minh City being managed? How should the cultural traditions, urban architectural planning, and heritage of Ho Chi Minh City be preserved and promoted?...
Therefore, we need to consider that in the process of restructuring the apparatus, whether to maintain, merge or terminate the operation of any unit of Ho Chi Minh City, we also need to pay attention to the characteristics of a very special megacity, which is Saigon - Cho Lon - Gia Dinh - Ho Chi Minh City.
Dr. Tran Anh Tuan
Dr. Tran Anh Tuan, National Assembly delegate, Party Secretary, Head of the HCM City Enterprise Management Innovation Board:
Promoting the flexible mechanism of Resolution 98
In the process of restructuring the apparatus, Ho Chi Minh City needs to promote the flexible mechanism from Resolution 98/2023/QH15 of the National Assembly. This Resolution allows Ho Chi Minh City to transfer functions and tasks from one agency to another. This is a very flexible and important mechanism.
During the initial period of implementing the organizational restructuring, it is predicted that there will be a backlog of work. Therefore, Ho Chi Minh City can transfer functions and tasks from one agency to another according to the mechanism of Resolution 98/2023 to promptly resolve and handle work.
Ms. Pham Phuong Thao
Ms. Pham Phuong Thao, former Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, former Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council:
Challenge the leader's ability
In the process of streamlining the payroll, Ho Chi Minh City should not level the playing field among localities and units. The city needs to have policies to keep talented people with good qualities and abilities in the state apparatus.
In streamlining the payroll, the most important thing is the quality and capacity of the leader and the head. They must be objective, impartial, and correctly evaluate the capacity of the staff through work efficiency and products. This streamlining of the payroll tests the capacity of the leader and the head.
Dr. Nguyen Thi Thien Tri
Dr. Nguyen Thi Thien Tri, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law:
Need special Urban Law for Ho Chi Minh City
In the immediate future, Ho Chi Minh City needs to focus on thoroughly implementing the spirit of Resolution 18. In the near future, it is necessary to raise the institutional level of Ho Chi Minh City. Specifically, it is necessary to make more solid proposals for the city, not just stop at resolutions. That could be a special Urban Law for Ho Chi Minh City.
Without this legal "land", Ho Chi Minh City's proposals will lack a tight mechanism and lack a systematic depth. The Special Urban Law for Ho Chi Minh City will help the city solve more problems, not just the problem of organizational arrangement.
Source: https://nld.com.vn/tp-hcm-tai-cau-truc-bo-may-de-but-pha-196241231185705994.htm
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