Nghe An announces the results of the Competitiveness Index of departments, branches, sectors and People's Committees of districts

On the afternoon of October 5, the Provincial People's Committee held an online conference to announce the results of the Provincial Competitiveness Index of provincial departments, branches and People's Committees of districts, cities and towns (DDCI) of Nghe An province in 2022.

Comrades: Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Bui Thanh An - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee co-chaired the conference.

Attending the conference were Directors, Heads of provincial departments, branches, sectors and units; District People's Committees; representatives of the Party Committee of the Business Bloc; Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry, Nghe An branch and Associations and Business Associations of the province.

At the conference, the consulting unit announced the results of the Provincial Competitiveness Index of Departments, Branches, and People's Committees of Districts, Cities, and Towns (DDCI) of Nghe An province in 2022. This is the first year that Nghe An province has organized the announcement of the Provincial Competitiveness Index of Departments, Branches, and Localities.

The 2022 DDCI Nghe An results are based on the synthesis of opinions from 2,123 enterprises, cooperatives, and business households in two forms of direct and online investigation and survey; of which 855 votes were for the department, agency, and sector and 1,268 votes were for the local sector.

The DDCI Index for departments, agencies and sectors includes 8 component indexes: Market entry, licensing activities and administrative procedures; Transparency and application of information technology; Cost of time for administrative procedures and compliance with legal regulations; Informal costs; Fair competition; Dynamism and pioneering of departments, agencies and sectors; Support for production and business; Institutional effectiveness.

The DDCI results of the departments, agencies and branches are divided into 2 groups: Group A includes 12 units whose main service objects are enterprises, cooperatives, business households and the number of administrative procedures/level of interaction with these objects is large and significant.

Group B includes 11 units whose main service objects are not enterprises, cooperatives, or business households, and the number of administrative procedures/level of interaction with these objects is at a lower level.

In group A, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development leads the rankings with 79.34 points; the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs ranks second with 79.03 points; the Southeast Economic Zone Management Board ranks third with 77.89 points and the Tax Department ranks last with 75.01 points.

In group B, the Department of Information and Communications leads the rankings with 81.76 points; the Department of Justice ranks second with 81.46 points; the Department of Culture and Sports ranks third with 81.10 points; and the Department of Science and Technology ranks last with 76.48 points.

In the sector, the component indicators have positive points, including: Informal costs; Costs of administrative procedures; Transparency and accessibility to information. The component indicators that need to be improved include: Costs of market entry; Support for production and business; Fair competition.

At the local level, the DDCI Index consists of 9 component indices: Market entry, licensing activities and administrative procedures; Transparency and application of information technology; Cost of time for administrative procedures and compliance with legal regulations; Informal costs; Fair competition; Dynamism and pioneering; Support for production and business; Institutional effectiveness and security and order; Access to land.

As a result, Nghi Loc district leads the rankings with 85.43 points; Hoang Mai town ranks second with 83.46 points; Tuong Duong district ranks third with 81.26 points. The bottom 3 positions are Quy Hop district with 70.14 points; Quy Chau district with 68.67 points; Hung Nguyen district with 67.64 points.

In the local sector, the indicators with relatively positive scores include: Informal costs; Institutional effectiveness and security and order; Fair competition. Indicators that need improvement include: Transparency and access to information; Market entry costs; Production and business support.

The competitiveness index of provincial departments, branches, and People's Committees of districts, cities, and towns in Nghe An measures the business community's perception of the quality of economic management and public administration of departments, branches, and localities towards enterprises and economic establishments through a system of indicators and targets, thereby identifying issues and measures to improve the business environment and investment environment of the province to promote the development of enterprises and economic establishments.

The competitiveness index of provincial departments, branches and sectors and People's Committees of districts, cities and towns does not reflect all aspects of the level and results of completing tasks of a department, branch, sector or locality, but only from the perspective of public administration and management related to enterprises, business households and contributions to the business environment of the province. Administrative reform or the pioneering spirit of leadership are just aspects in the assessment content besides transparency, informal costs, law enforcement effectiveness, etc.