Provincial Party Secretary: Avoid voluntarism in merging some agencies and units

On the morning of July 30, the Provincial Party Standing Committee held a meeting to evaluate 1 year of implementing Project No. 09-DA/TU, dated April 18, 2018 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on reorganizing the apparatus, streamlining the payroll and restructuring the team of cadres, civil servants and public employees to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the political system of Nghe An province, period 2018 - 2021 and the following years.

Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation chaired the meeting. Attending the meeting were comrades: Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; comrades in the Provincial Party Standing Committee. Photo: Mai Hoa

The whole province reduced 6,989 staff positions.

Assessing the implementation of Project No. 09-DA/TU, comrades in the Provincial Party Standing Committee affirmed that the entire political system has actively participated in the implementation based on the contents, requirements and progress of the project.

Up to this point, basically, the agencies and units of the Party and mass organizations have completed the project of restructuring the apparatus and streamlining the staff in their agencies and units to submit to competent authorities for approval.

The province has also completed the implementation of the policy of the Head of the Propaganda Department being concurrently the Director of the District-level Political Training Center; and effectively implemented the pilot project of the Head of the Mass Mobilization Department being concurrently the Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in 8 district-level units.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Mai Hoa

18/21 districts, cities and towns have merged the Radio - Television Station and the Cultural - Sports Center... The implementation of the arrangement of administrative units at the commune, block, hamlet and village levels has been carried out in the right spirit and on schedule, creating high consensus in the political system and among the people.

Along with the arrangement and streamlining of the organizational apparatus, all levels, sectors, agencies and public service units also pay attention to streamlining the payroll. The whole province has streamlined 6,989 payrolls; of which 263 are civil servants and 6,726 are public employees.

However, the issue raised by many Standing Committee members at the meeting was the implementation of the arrangement associated with the policy regime for cadres, civil servants, and non-professional workers at the commune and hamlet levels after the merger.

Comrade Ho Phuc Hop - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Committee raised some practical concerns during the project implementation process. Photo: Mai Hoa

Some members of the Standing Committee also raised concerns regarding professional working relationships in places where the pilot policy of merging a number of Party committee agencies and specialized government agencies with similar functions and tasks at the provincial and district levels is being implemented; the activities of Party and Trade Union organizations in places where the model of the Head of the Propaganda Department is also the Director of the Political Training Center and the Head of the Mass Mobilization Department is also the Chairman of the Fatherland Front Committee at the district level is being implemented.

Avoid pressure in implementing the merger of some agencies and units.

Speaking at the meeting, Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee emphasized: The reorganization of the apparatus, streamlining of staff and restructuring of the staff, civil servants and public employees must continue to be directed and implemented resolutely according to the issued Project No. 09-DA/TU. Departments, branches, district and commune-level units must implement according to the project approved by competent authorities.

Providing specific directions for each content, the Provincial Party Secretary noted that the arrangement and consolidation of staff after the merger of commune-level administrative units and public service units must be carried out according to the principle of democratic centralism based on capacity, sense of responsibility and prestige to select cadres and civil servants to continue to take on positions and jobs.

For the remaining surplus cadres, it is necessary to study and implement the following direction: if the cadres have good capacity, they can be transferred to the district or province; the rest will be arranged in order of priority, retired when they reach the age and dismissed for those who do not meet the qualifications or have not completed their tasks during their work process or have been disciplined...

Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation emphasized the need to avoid voluntarism and pressure in merging agencies and units with similar functions and tasks. Photo: Mai Hoa

Regarding the merger of blocks and hamlets, the immediate requirement is to direct the completion of Party cells and hamlet management boards first; and the arrangement and reassignment of non-professional workers in hamlets will be carried out in a gradually decreasing schedule.

Regarding the pilot implementation of the policy of merging a number of Party committees and specialized government agencies with similar functions and tasks at the provincial and district levels, Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh emphasized that this is a pilot policy, so there is no need to worry about whether to do it or not, but to implement it to see how to resolve problems and difficulties during the pilot process.

Vinh city leaders presented flowers to congratulate the Board of Directors of Vinh City Culture, Sports and Communications Center after merging the Culture - Sports Center with the Radio - Television Station. Photo courtesy of Mai Hoa

If difficulties and problems can be resolved and the performance is better, then research will be done to replicate; on the contrary, if the pilot process has too many problems that cannot be resolved or the performance is not higher than before, then it will not be implemented; not based on willfulness, forcing to do it at all costs to achieve results.

The Provincial Party Secretary also agreed with the policy of merging Party and Trade Union organizations in places where the Head of the Propaganda Department is also the Director of the Political Training Center and the Head of the Mass Mobilization Department is also the Chairman of the Fatherland Front Committee at the district level where conditions permit...