That was the sharing of Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh when working with the Ministry of Home Affairs on September 16. Reporting to Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra emphasized that with the requirement of building a socialist rule-of-law state, the Ministry of Home Affairs must think, be proactive to advise and concretize the Party's resolutions but must closely follow the reality of life. "Since the beginning of the term, the Ministry of Home Affairs has completed a very large and extremely heavy workload. There are things that we think are difficult to overcome. There are issues in terms of policy that are like this but in practice it is different. Therefore, choosing a path that both ensures the right policy and is suitable for practice is not an easy matter," the Minister of Home Affairs shared. If you don't set an example, you can't tell anyone. Summarizing the work that has been done and the tasks in the coming time, the Minister of Home Affairs pledged to make efforts to build and perfect the institution. This is the leading and central front that the Ministry of Home Affairs has made efforts to implement, especially the institutions in some extremely hot and necessary areas that need to be changed such as the public service and civil servants. In recent times, the Ministry of Home Affairs has determined to take the lead in administrative reform and reorganizing the internal apparatus. Specifically, the Ministry has cut 64 internal units, reorganized 4 focal points of the Ministry, and reduced the number of civil servants by 15%. "The Ministry of Home Affairs, as an advisory body to the Government and the Prime Minister, urges the implementation of these policies without being exemplary, so no one can be criticized," Ms. Tra emphasized.

Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra. Photo: H.Hai

In addition, the Ministry of Home Affairs has contributed to fundamentally changing the organizational structure. This is demonstrated through the determination and drasticness in rearranging the organizational structure within ministries and branches; at the same time, rearranging the administrative organizations of specialized agencies at the provincial and district levels. "Previously, localities acted decisively but some ministries and branches acted moderately or did nothing, but recently all ministries and branches have been rearranged to reduce 17 general departments and organizations equivalent to General Departments, 10 departments and 145 departments/committees under general departments and under ministries," Ms. Tra cited. According to the Minister of Home Affairs, we must accept mechanics in a certain period to arrange a very large volume, otherwise mechanics cannot be done. "Everywhere there are arguments, difficulties, and reasons for not arranging. Therefore, it is necessary to assign targets to do it. Since then, the number of public service units has been reduced, raising awareness in streamlining the payroll", the Minister of Home Affairs emphasized. Another task, according to Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra, is to comprehensively innovate the organization of local governments. In the past time, the Ministry has focused on basically completing and resolving issues arising in the arrangement of district-level and commune-level administrative units in the period 2019 - 2021. Currently, the Ministry is resolutely arranging district-level and commune-level administrative units in the period 2023 - 2025. "In an extremely difficult context, if we are not resolute, just one day of rest will repeat the situation of arguing, difficulties, and obstacles, and not doing anything. Therefore, the Ministry of Home Affairs is determined and resolute in many different ways to complete the appraisal of the projects of 30 localities this month, submit them to the National Assembly Standing Committee for approval. "past and completed by October", the Minister of Home Affairs affirmed. Regarding salary policy reform, the Minister of Home Affairs said that this is "extremely difficult and extremely difficult" but the Ministry has made efforts to advise on implementing 4/6 contents according to Resolution 27 on salary reform in the spirit of "having a roadmap, step by step, reasonable, feasible and effective". "There were times when we felt extremely difficult and stuck, but in the end we chose a very suitable solution in the immediate future and there are still issues to continue adjusting in the coming period. Now, determining salary payment according to job position is not a simple problem", Ms. Pham Thi Thanh Tra shared. The Minister hopes that the Permanent Deputy Prime Minister will pay close attention and create favorable conditions for the Ministry to complete its tasks in 2024 and the following years. Try not to create a roundabout, chicken-egg mechanism. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh said that the purpose of today's meeting was mainly for him to grasp the field that the Prime Minister had just assigned him to be in charge of. According to Mr. Nguyen Hoa Binh, the Ministry of Home Affairs has a particularly important role and position, in charge of human and apparatus issues, which are very difficult and sensitive. However, the Ministry has done a good job of advising, closely and effectively coordinating with ministries and branches; especially with many innovations, accepting difficulties, not shirking or avoiding responsibility, especially with difficult issues. Regarding the arrangement of the apparatus and streamlining the payroll, the Deputy Prime Minister agreed with the Minister of Home Affairs that "in the initial stage, if there are no imposed targets and no mechanics, it will be difficult to do".

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh. Photo: H.Hai

He acknowledged the creative approach of the Ministry of Home Affairs in implementing salary policy reform. Although Resolution 27 has not been fully implemented, implementation has been on a roadmap, with reasonable steps and in practice has proven that the salary regime has improved but the situation has not created any complicated changes. The Deputy Prime Minister noted that the Ministry of Home Affairs should continue to overcome the shortcomings and limitations that have been pointed out, especially in the work of perfecting institutions. We strive to build an honest and creative government, so we must change the mindset of law-making: "What cannot be managed must be banned". Reiterating the Prime Minister's requirement in institution-building to be close to reality, remove difficulties, facilitate businesses, unblock resources, and not create a mechanism of asking and giving, the Deputy Prime Minister noted: Try not to create a roundabout, chicken-egg mechanism, if you want money, you must have a project, if you want a project, you must have money, not knowing which comes first and which comes later, it is very difficult to implement. “Since becoming Deputy Prime Minister, I have signed documents giving opinions related to the Ministry of Home Affairs’ fields first and most. No document has been left on my desk for more than 2 days. During the day, meetings are held, and at night, documents are read,” Mr. Nguyen Hoa Binh affirmed that he “will do his best” on the related issues submitted by the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Deputy Prime Minister reminded the Ministry of Home Affairs to promptly submit 14 dossiers on the arrangement of administrative units at the district and commune levels out of 30 dossiers that localities have completed to submit to the National Assembly Standing Committee this month. The Deputy Prime Minister welcomed the Ministry of Home Affairs’ recent determination and creativity in resolving the issue of administrative boundaries between Hue and Da Nang, which has not been determined for the past 50 years. “If the Ministry has the right method, the right and convincing arguments, I will do it immediately, without pushing it away. The documents related to the rearrangement of urban authorities at the district and commune levels, submitted by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Deputy Prime Minister will do it immediately,” Mr. Nguyen Hoa Binh affirmed. Another issue that the Deputy Prime Minister also noted to the Ministry of Home Affairs is the need to focus on building human resources for digital transformation. "To transform digitally, we must have human resources to implement and must have practical solutions. A major policy that goes along with it is that resources, first of all, the apparatus and people, must be calculated reasonably," said the Deputy Prime Minister. Supporting the spirit of innovation, not pushing or avoiding, seeing the right thing to do, the Deputy Prime Minister hopes that the Ministry of Home Affairs will give decisive and accurate advice, always dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, dare to innovate, and bring high efficiency.

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