Reduce 6 specialized departments after merging the Department of Finance and the Department of Planning & Investment of Nghe An

Nghe An Provincial People's Committee has just approved the Project to merge the Department of Finance and the Department of Planning and Investment into the Department of Finance.

On February 25, at the 27th Session (Special Session), Nghe An Provincial People's Council will consider and approve the Resolution to establish Nghe An Department of Finance on the basis of merging the Department of Finance and the Department of Planning and Investment.

The merger of the Department of Finance and the Department of Planning and Investment to form a unified financial advisory state management agency ensures a streamlined, appropriate, scientific, and tight organizational structure, promotes connectivity in the implementation of state management tasks between agencies and units; improves the effectiveness and efficiency of operations, in line with the socialist-oriented market economy and the requirements of socio-economic development in the new period; restructures, improves the quality, and effectively uses the staff, civil servants, and public employees after the merger.

Principles of reorganizing the apparatus and arranging the payroll: Merge departments with similar functions and tasks to reduce duplication and overlap, increasing management efficiency. Maintain departments with different functions and tasks, not overlapping functions and tasks with other departments. Adjust departments with overlapping functions and tasks to support or complement each other and will be adjusted again when building the functions and tasks of each department.

The arrangement of the organizational apparatus must ensure both the requirements of overall management and the specialization of sectors and fields in order to improve the quality of advisory work. In the process of arranging the staff, depending on the functions and tasks of the departments after the merger, the staff can be adjusted and arranged appropriately and in accordance with regulations.

Reduced 6 rooms after merger

Number of focal points of the 2 agencies before merging: Including 17 departments (of which: Department of Finance has 8 departments; Department of Planning and Investment has 9 departments). After merging, there are 11 departments, a decrease of 6 departments, equivalent to 35.3%.

Accordingly, the Department Office will be merged (merging the Department of Finance Office and the Department of Planning and Investment Office); the Department Inspectorate will be merged (merging the Department of Finance Inspectorate and the Department of Planning and Investment Inspectorate).

Merge departments: Investment Department (merge the Investment Finance Department under the Department of Finance and the Bidding, Appraisal and Investment Supervision Department under the Department of Planning and Investment); Budget Management Department (merge the District and Commune Budget Departments and the Provincial Budget Department under the Department of Finance); Sectoral Economic Department (merge the Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Department and the Science, Education and Culture Department under the Department of Planning and Investment); Finance and Enterprise Development Department (merge the Enterprise Finance Department under the Department of Finance and the Investment and Enterprise Development Department under the Department of Planning and Investment).

Maintain the departments, including: General and Planning Department; Administrative and Finance Department; Price and Public Asset Management Department; Business Registration Department; Infrastructure Development Department (Industrial and Service Economic Department).

For affiliated public service units: Number of focal points of the 2 agencies before the merger: There is 1 unit (Financial Support and Consulting Center under the Department of Finance). It is expected that after the arrangement, merger and consolidation: 1 unit will remain and the name will be changed to the Public Service Center for Finance and Investment Development (receiving the task of investment promotion and supporting business development from the Provincial Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Center).

Human resource plan

According to the project, the total number of staff assigned to the Department of Finance is 76 people; the total number of officers and civil servants is currently 75 people. Of which, the Department's leadership includes 1 Director and 3 Deputy Directors; 8 department heads, 13 deputy department heads and 45 civil servants.

In addition, the Financial Consulting Support Center (under the Department of Finance) has a total of 17 assigned staff; the total current staff as of December 31, 2024 is 16 people.

At the Department of Planning and Investment: Total number of employees is 59; total number of employees as of December 31, 2024 is 57. Of which, the Department's leadership includes 1 Director and 4 Deputy Directors; 9 department heads, 11 deputy department heads and 33 civil servants.

For personnel at the head level of agencies and units after the merger: Based on practical conditions and standards, staff capacity, the collective leadership of the agency or unit decides to select those who meet the task requirements of the new agency or organization after the arrangement; selected personnel can be inside or outside the agency or organization that is merged or consolidated into the new unit.

In case the head of the agency or organization implementing the arrangement does not continue to be the head, he/she will be arranged to hold the position of head in the vacant places (if any) or at the adjacent lower level and will enjoy the policy according to the Government's regulations on organizational arrangement.

Specifically, the selection of personnel at the head level follows the principle: Priority is given to personnel with higher planning levels; Priority is given to personnel who are not under disciplinary review, review or are in the disciplinary period; For redundant personnel at the head level, they are assigned to agencies and units that do not have another head with suitable capacity, qualifications and management experience.

In case of not being able to arrange, arrange to the deputy position at the unit after the merger, or prioritize arranging the deputy position in another department that matches the wishes, capacity, qualifications and requirements of the job position but enjoy the allowance coefficient of the head position and equivalent for a period not exceeding 05 years (or the end of the re-appointment period of the current position) from the date of job re-arrangement.

Regarding deputy heads of agencies and units after the merger: Based on the actual number of deputies of the heads of the agencies and organizations implementing the merger or consolidation, the collective leadership of the agency or unit decides to arrange them as deputies of the heads of the new agencies and organizations after the arrangement or arrange them to other agencies and organizations according to the requirements of the tasks and capacity of the staff.

In the immediate future, the number of deputies of the heads of agencies and organizations formed after the reorganization may be higher than the regulations, but the agencies and units must develop a plan to reduce the number of deputies according to general regulations within 5 years (from the date the competent authority approves the reorganization project).

Specifically: Add up the number of deputy heads of agencies and units after the merger (the number is in accordance with the Government's regulations); Until the end of a period not exceeding 5 years (or the end of the term of reappointment to the current position) from the date of job re-arrangement, there is no limit on the average number of deputies at the units subject to the merger; Do not appoint new deputies of the heads of agencies and units subject to merger or reorganization due to the merger until the number of deputies of these agencies and units is ensured in accordance with the regulations of the competent authority.

Regarding the plan for headquarters, finance, assets, and land: After the merger, the Department of Finance is responsible for coordinating with relevant agencies and units to implement budget management in accordance with current regulations.

In the immediate future, to stabilize work and arrange workplaces for cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers, maintain the current status of public assets currently managed by the two agencies. After the merger, calculate the roadmap for transferring to work at 1 headquarters and advise on a plan to handle other public assets to ensure compliance with current regulations.