To select talented people and eliminate 'useless' officials, should we just hold exams like in the old days?

To select talented people and eliminate "useless" officials, National Assembly delegates believe that it is necessary to reform exams and assessment policies, and at the same time, there must be a "request for talented people".

Even the "son of God" was eliminated in the annual exam.

It is no longer rare for officials and civil servants to harass citizens and businesses. Many National Assembly deputies believe that this phenomenon is quite common.

They rely on their work position to extort and harass businesses and people for illegal profits.

According to delegate Le Thanh Van - National Assembly Delegation of Ca Mau, the root cause of this is because they have bad moral character.

National Assembly Delegate Le Thanh Van

“This issue is related to public ethics. Because we have not yet strictly regulated each public service act for each individual, it leads to harassment but is not handled. It makes the image of the State and public order management worse in the hearts of the people,” said delegate Le Thanh Van.

Regarding the goal of streamlining the payroll for a number of cadres and civil servants, some opinions say that this is difficult to implement. Mr. Van said: "Whether it can be done or not depends on the determination and implementation measures."

To eliminate "useless" officials, National Assembly delegates said that regular testing should be done using legal tools.

That evaluation criterion will be used through each public service behavior in each specific position to score annually and use that as a basis to eliminate "useless" officials.

“For example, points for administrative time compliance, or points for performing assigned tasks. If you cannot complete them after the deadline, you will be deducted points. Or whether the task is performed with quality or not, you cannot be assigned to draft documents. You cannot be assigned to handle grassroots work. Those are the criteria for lowering the standard score. And the final summary, after 6 months or 1 year, is the basis for removal from the State apparatus.”

“That’s not to mention your moral assessment. When there is a petition from the people or businesses reporting that a certain civil servant is corrupt. If there is evidence, the lightest case is to eliminate or fire. The more serious case is to remove from office or fire. Or punish with other sanctions, the lightest is civil, the more serious is criminal. Only then can there be a deterrent,” said delegate Le Thanh Van.

Besides, the delegate said that by having annual exams, even if a civil servant is a "son of God", he will still be eliminated.

“Basically, it is up to you how you set up the exam. If the open exam requires you to be creative and sit in the exam room, who can save you?”, the delegate from Ca Mau expressed his opinion.

Currently, every year civil servants and public employees are evaluated. This method is based on self-examination of each civil servant and on collective evaluation. “People give in to each other, avoid each other, compromise with each other so that everything goes well,” said a National Assembly delegate.

The new feudal style exam selected talented people.

Besides, the delegate said that to select talented people, we use examination method.

The recruitment must be creative to select talented people.

Entrance exams must also be innovative and creative, not just based on a pre-existing outline like today.

In the old feudal period, the examination to select mandarins only had 4 subjects: First was the classics - a theory subject that required studying chapters and verses. That was called political theory to prohibit documents that required memorization like handbooks.

The second is poetry for students to feel their soul with society, which is completely personal emotion.

The third is to create a scenario, which is to give candidates a situation to complete a legal document. There is no ready-made formula for that either.

The fourth subject is literature on national governance. This subject presents a situation for you to give advice to the nation. “Where can we get the textbook for this subject?”, delegate Le Thanh Van explained.

According to the delegate of Ca Mau delegation, if we had exams like in the past, we would have eliminated a mass of "useless" officials.

For a long time, our testing system has not been strict. We force the test takers to do the same thing we teach, even allowing them to bring in textbooks and materials.

Besides, the examiner must also have enough qualifications to recognize the creativity and practical ability of the examinee.

Only by doing so can we select competent officials and eliminate officials who "go to work with an umbrella in the morning and come home with an umbrella in the evening", wasting the State budget.

Currently, we are building a constructive and honest Government, so in personnel work we must create a transparent and fair mechanism so that everyone in society has the opportunity to take the exam to become a State official.

“As the Prime Minister once said, we must find a way for a farmer’s son to become a leader. To do that, we must be clear in the selection process,” said a National Assembly delegate.

Besides, we must have a law to promote talents. This is something we have not been able to do compared to the enlightened feudal era like the wise kings in history.

In the past, King Le Thanh Tong, Nguyen Dynasty, King Quang Trung all had edicts calling for wise men.

“After the August Revolution succeeded, Uncle Ho also sent two letters to the provinces recommending talented people. That was also a call for talented people. Why don’t we have a call for talented people to select talented people? And to select talented people, we must be sincere and wholehearted. Calling for talented people is not ordering them to come,” Mr. Le Thanh Van analyzed./.

According to VOV