Minister of Home Affairs: Open up recruitment opportunities, add new civil servants to meet tasks

At the conference to evaluate the results of the internal organizational arrangement of ministries and branches and to summarize 1 month of operating the 2-level local government, which took place on the afternoon of July 28, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that immediately after the policy on organizing the 2-level local government was issued, the Government and the Prime Minister strongly directed relevant ministries and branches to develop and promulgate legal documents as a legal basis for operating the new model.

Issued 98 decrees and resolutions related to apparatus arrangement

In particular, according to Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra, from June 1 to July 27, the Government issued 98 decrees and resolutions on legal regulations related to the arrangement of administrative units, adjusting the functions, tasks and powers of two-level local governments (including 30 decrees on decentralization, delegation and determination of authority in various fields).

The Prime Minister has issued decisions, telegrams, and directives to direct the implementation and remove obstacles in the implementation of the arrangement of administrative units at all levels and the organization of two-level local governments. Ministries and branches have also issued 65 circulars to specify these regulations.

At the same time, to promptly grasp and resolve difficulties and problems in operating two-level local governments, the Government, ministries and ministerial-level agencies have established hotlines and channels to receive feedback. Government leaders have organized working groups to inspect and provide guidance in a number of localities.

Localities maintain a regular and continuous monitoring, urging, inspection and evaluation regime; promptly coordinate to support and resolve issues arising during the implementation process.

Localities have also completed the arrangement and consolidation of People's Councils and People's Committees at provincial and communal levels and basically completed the establishment of specialized agencies, administrative organizations, and public service units at provincial and communal levels.

Regarding receiving and handling administrative procedures, localities have focused on arranging headquarters for public administrative service centers at provincial and communal levels; establishing and connecting software systems and databases between central and local ministries and branches and between pre-arranged localities; initially receiving and handling all administrative procedures for people and businesses in the area.

Public administrative service centers operate effectively, many places have applied information technology, operated software to handle administrative procedures and connected with the National Public Service Portal and national database. Many localities have creative ways of arranging civil servants and public employees with experience in information technology at the Center. The number of online records has increased significantly.

Will open up opportunities for recruitment and new addition of officials and civil servants

Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra also said that the settlement of policies and regimes for cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers after the reorganization has been of interest to localities, who have grasped their thoughts and aspirations to promptly resolve them according to regulations.

For part-time workers, localities are making a list to resolve policies and regimes or arrange suitable jobs if they wish to continue working and agencies and units have needs...

Besides the positive results, according to Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra, one of the major problems today is the staff, civil servants and public employees of the two-level local government.

Ms. Tra said that currently, the staff at the commune level are mainly former commune level officials - accounting for about 70%, the remaining 30% are transferred from the (old) provincial and district levels. This leads to a lack of uniformity in qualifications and skills and causes difficulties in arranging suitable personnel.

“In the near future, there will be a document to direct localities to review, synthesize, and evaluate the arrangement and organization of cadres, civil servants, and public employees, thereby classifying and screening cadres and civil servants according to specific criteria and standards. On that basis, a solution will be developed, while at the same time opening up new recruitment and recruitment opportunities to meet task requirements,” the Minister emphasized.

To solve the fundamental problem, the Ministry of Home Affairs will soon advise the Government to issue a decree on determining job positions to serve as a basis for arranging, screening and restructuring the staff, especially at the commune level. At the same time, the Ministry will organize training courses to improve the capacity to perform tasks in the new context.

Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra also suggested that in the coming time, ministries and branches continue to proactively review and adjust specialized legal documents that have overlapping, inappropriate or lacking specific regulations, especially in the fields of land management, construction, finance - budget, population, civil status, education and health, ensuring clear division of functions and tasks between provincial and communal levels, and consistency of the legal system.

At the same time, ministries and branches need to prioritize handling problems related to organizational structure, personnel management, task decentralization, budget allocation, use of facilities, connection of information technology infrastructure, population data and civil status; promote digital transformation, digital government, digital society, digital citizens to ensure operational requirements for local governments at two levels; strengthen inspection, supervision, and evaluation of implementation results, develop thematic inspection plans, conduct periodic internal self-inspections to detect inadequacies and propose adjustments...

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According to the report of the Ministry of Finance, as of July 24, the total number of surplus housing and land facilities that need to be further processed by localities is over 9,000 facilities (including both provincial and communal levels).
The work of archiving, digitizing records, digitizing documents, handing over documents and databases after arrangement is carried out in accordance with regulations, ensuring strictness and safety.
Security, politics, and social order and safety across the country are maintained, with no major or complicated problems arising.