Supervise the implementation of state management on organizational structure and staffing at the Department of Home Affairs.
(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of October 21, the Legal Committee of Nghe An Provincial People's Council supervised the implementation of state management on organizational structure, payroll, and labor contracts at the Department of Home Affairs.
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Attending the meeting were comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council. Photo: Thanh Le |
During the period from 2020 to 2022, Nghe An province has strictly implemented the regulations of the Party and State, the National Assembly, the Government, and central ministries, departments, and branches on the organization of the state administrative apparatus.
In particular, maintain stability in the organizational structure, do not establish intermediate organizations, implement multi-sectoral and multi-field management, reduce focal points, comply with regulations on the number of deputies in agencies and organizations, and streamline the payroll with appropriate steps.
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Comrade Nguyen Viet Hung - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Director of the Department of Home Affairs spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Le |
Ensure the basic requirements of clearly defining functions, tasks, powers, responsibilities and relationships between organizations and agencies, eliminating overlaps in functions and tasks of organizations, agencies and within each department, resolutely eliminating unnecessary organizations; avoid overlaps, unclear responsibilities, and inefficiencies in the management of the apparatus and cadres, civil servants and public employees.
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Comrade Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa - Deputy Chief of Office of the National Assembly Delegation and Provincial People's Council discussed the shortcomings in implementing the organizational arrangement at the grassroots level. Photo: Thanh Le |
The whole province has merged 39 administrative units (16 must merge, 4 encouraged, 19 adjacent) of 9 districts and towns; after the merger, 19 commune-level administrative units were formed, reducing 20 commune-level administrative units. Thus, Nghe An province has 460 communes, wards and towns from 480 communes, wards and towns.
Arrangement of hamlets, blocks, and villages: Current status 5,884, 3,886 merged, 1,804 formed, 2,082 reduced; number of existing blocks and hamlets after merger: 3,804 hamlets, blocks, and villages (with 2 newly established blocks).
The classification of administrative units associated with the number of commune-level cadres and civil servants contributes to stabilizing the payroll, and planning work is given attention. Commune-level cadres and civil servants have made positive changes towards rejuvenation and professional standardization; they enjoy full benefits and policies, and receive professional and technical training.
The total number of public service units in the province at present (provincial and district levels) is 1,678 units. Of which, the number of units that have been reorganized (2020-2022): 146 units.
The number of units that have not been reorganized is 42. The total number of units reduced after reorganization (2020-2022) is 76. The province currently has 60 public service units that self-insure regular and investment expenditures and public service units that self-insure regular expenditures, accounting for 3.6% of the total number of public service units in the province.
The Department of Home Affairs has advised the Provincial People's Committee to strictly implement regulations on staff streamlining policies and promptly resolve policies and regimes for subjects subject to staff streamlining. As a result, from 2020 to 2022, the whole province has implemented staff streamlining for 2,012 cadres, civil servants and public employees.
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Leaders of departments and offices of the Department of Home Affairs attended the meeting. Photo: Thanh Le |
Discussing at the meeting, the opinions of the members of the monitoring delegation requested the Department of Home Affairs to clarify a number of contents related to the staffing of teachers; secondment of teachers; results of streamlining the staffing; and recruitment of civil servants and public employees.
The policy of bringing regular police to communes; resolving surplus cadres after commune mergers; policies for cadres, civil servants, non-professional cadres at commune level, and hamlet cadres after merger; rearranging and reviewing inter-sectoral steering committees, expanding the administrative boundaries of Vinh city, the situation of cadres and civil servants resigning, etc. were explained and clarified by representatives of the Department of Home Affairs.
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Comrade Nguyen Thang Long - Head of Organization, Personnel and Non-Governmental Organizations Department, Department of Home Affairs explained the contents proposed by the monitoring delegation. Photo: Thanh Le |
Speaking at the meeting, comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council requested the provincial Department of Home Affairs to grasp, update and review the central government's regulations to promptly advise the province on water management work in terms of organizational structure, payroll and labor contracts in state administrative agencies and public service units in the province.
At the same time, review and amend regulations on functions, tasks, internal organization, and staffing to create job positions for agencies, units, and localities to continue to reorganize the apparatus of state administrative agencies in the direction of merging to increase scale, and implement multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary state management.
The industry needs to pay attention to information and propaganda work so that policies and guidelines are promptly updated by local agencies, departments and branches.
At the same time, do a good job of advising and urging administrative reform, applying information technology, and digital transformation to achieve the goal of government building./.