Plan to reduce 10,000 official cars, many big bosses have their cars cut

The number of public vehicles serving general work by the end of 2015 was 24,000. In Directive 31/CT-TTg dated November 2, 2016, the Prime Minister directed that by 2020, the number of public vehicles serving general work being equipped for ministries, branches, and localities, except for units in mountainous areas, islands, and areas with special difficulties, should be reduced by 30%-50%.

To achieve this goal, the Ministry of Finance proposes to reduce the number of public vehicles in departments and equivalent organizations under ministries, ministerial-level agencies as well as in localities.

In the draft Decision of the Prime Minister on standards, norms and regimes for management and use of public vehicles, the Ministry of Finance has proposed many quite tough solutions to achieve the goal of reducing public vehicles.

The Ministry of Finance wants to drastically reduce the number of public vehicles.

Specifically, departments and offices under the Ministry with 50 or more employees will reduce the number of vehicles from 2 vehicles/unit to 1 vehicle/unit. If a unit has less than 50 employees, 2 units will only be given 1 vehicle.

Another "stricter" solution proposed by the Ministry of Finance is that for units with 50 or more employees, 2 units will share 1 vehicle. For units with less than 50 employees, 3 units will share 1 vehicle.

For departments and offices under the General Department, the regulations are also much stricter, accordingly, 4 units can be granted 1 car instead of 2 units sharing 1 car as at present.

In localities, the Ministry of Finance plans to reduce the number of vehicles in departments and agencies from 2 vehicles per unit to only 1 vehicle per unit.

The number of vehicles of the People's Committee office, People's Council at district, county, district party committee, town party committee, and city party committee of the province can also be reduced from 2 vehicles/unit to 1 vehicle/unit.

Considering many proposed options, the Ministry of Finance said that the number of cars used for general work could be reduced by 42-62%, meaning an average reduction of 10,000 official cars (based on data on cars used for general work in 2015).

This move may create a surplus of cars, so the Ministry of Finance proposes a solution to handle these surplus cars by selling them to designated positions that are equipped with cars if this person proposes; or transferring them to agencies, organizations, and units that lack cars compared to standards and norms or replacing old cars; or auctioning them.

Regarding the driver team, the Ministry of Finance requests that responsible units arrange and assign drivers when handling surplus vehicles in accordance with labor laws.

The 2015 State Assets Report, recently completed by the Government, shows that by the end of 2015, the total number of existing public cars was more than 37,700, including cars serving leadership positions, cars serving general work, and specialized vehicles for ambulances, driving practice vehicles, trucks, etc. To own these cars, the budget spent a total of nearly 23 trillion VND (equivalent to more than 1 billion USD).

Of these, the number of vehicles serving general work (mainly 4-8 seat vehicles) accounts for the largest number with nearly 24,000 vehicles and the amount spent to purchase is more than 13.3 trillion VND.

Reducing the number of vehicles used for this common work by 30-50% will help save a significant amount of money for the budget.

According to Vietnamnet.vn