How will the departments be separated and merged?

The current departments will be grouped, and which departments will be unified nationwide and which will be delegated to local authorities. The Government will only stipulate the framework of specialized agencies, the framework of deputy levels, the minimum number of staff to establish and the criteria for establishing specific units.

"On that basis, the Government assigns localities to decide on the merger, consolidation, and establishment of a number of departments, and in the near future, the Central Government will not stipulate how many divisions a department has," said the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs.

4 departments are structured and organized according to specific characteristics.

Chief of Office of the Ministry of Home Affairs Nguyen Tien Thanh also said that the Ministry of Home Affairs is currently drafting a decree to replace Decree 24/2014 regulating the organization of specialized agencies under the People's Committees at the provincial level and a draft decree to replace Decree 37/2014 regulating the organization of specialized agencies under the People's Committees at the district level.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has organized workshops and is conducting surveys in 8 provinces and cities to complete these two drafts. After that, the Ministry will collect opinions from ministries, branches, localities and relevant agencies for the third time, send them to the Ministry of Justice for a second appraisal and report to the Politburo for comments before submitting them to the Government for consideration and promulgation.

Accordingly, the structure of the facilities is divided into 2 types. The current 17 facilities are divided into 3 groups.

Group 1 is 7 departments organized uniformly nationwide: Home Affairs, Justice, Natural Resources and Environment, Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, Health, Inspectorate, Provincial People's Committee Office. As for the Provincial People's Committee Office, if the pilot merger with the Provincial People's Council Office and the National Assembly Delegation Office into a general advisory and support office is carried out, the name will be changed to the Provincial Local Government Office.

Group 2 is the departments regulated in the direction of assigning authority to the Provincial People's Committee to submit to the People's Council of the same level to decide to maintain stability or merge.

Group 3 includes departments that are regulated in the direction of assigning authority to the Provincial People's Committee to submit to the People's Council of the same level to decide to maintain stability or merge.

For 4 special departments that are not organized uniformly among localities (Department of Planning and Architecture under the People's Committee of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and 3 departments whose establishment criteria are set by the Government: Ethnic Minorities Committee, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Tourism), the provincial People's Committee shall submit to the People's Council of the same level to decide to maintain stability or merge, establish or not establish.

Regarding the framework for the number of departments after the reorganization, the Ministry of Home Affairs proposed two options. Option 1 stipulates the total number of departments after the merger, consolidation, establishment or non-establishment, ensuring that the total number of departments after the reorganization does not exceed the current number of departments.

Option 2 stipulates the total number of departments after the merger, consolidation, establishment or non-establishment, ensuring the maximum number of departments in each locality according to the classification of provincial-level administrative units. It stipulates the criteria for establishing organizations under the organizational structure of the department and the number of deputy heads of the department and organizations within the department.

Similarly, the room level is also organized in this direction.

End the situation where there are more bosses than employees

In response to the question about the responsibility of the Ministry of Home Affairs when a department of the Ministry of Planning and Investment has had two department heads for many years, Director of the Department of Civil Servants and Public Employees Truong Hai Long said that the issue of the number of deputies or the appointment of leaders is not in accordance with regulations, the Prime Minister directed and requested ministries and local branches to review and resolve it completely, there are no special cases.

In case of less than 1 year of work remaining, it is still allowed to continue to maintain to ensure that by at least 1/7, no unit is not properly implementing the regulations on the number of leaders in agencies and units and synthesize the report to the Prime Minister.

"Regarding the responsibility of the Ministry of Home Affairs, after that deadline, based on reports from ministries, branches and localities, if any units are found to be in violation, the Ministry of Home Affairs will report to the Prime Minister," said Mr. Long.

Deputy Minister Nguyen Duy Thang further explained that for a long time, we have not regulated the minimum number of staff in a department or division, but only the number of heads and deputies, so the situation of high leadership ratio has arisen, which is not suitable for reality.

According to Mr. Thang, it is expected that in the second quarter, the Government will issue the two above-mentioned decrees, overcoming the situation of having more leaders than employees that the press has recently reported.