Reducing staff, improving training quality, recruiting civil servants

March 26, 2012 18:28

(Baonghean.vn) –As reported, at the question-and-answer session this afternoon, March 26, Minister of Home Affairs Nguyen Thanh Binh answered questions about "recruitment, training, fostering and regimes for state officials and civil servants; regimes and policies for part-time officials at commune and village levels; solutions to improve the quality of the grassroots government apparatus".

At Nghe An bridge, National Assembly delegates and provincial departments and branches directly questioned a number of shortcomings in the document advised by the Ministry of Home Affairs to the Government.

The questions sent by delegates to Minister of Home Affairs Nguyen Thanh Binh focused on issues of low quality of examinations and recruitment of civil servants, with inequality; unreasonable plans for appointment and recruitment of cadres; policies for civil servants and part-time cadres at the commune, ward and town levels still facing many disadvantages; reform of the salary mechanism - the current salary mechanism has not encouraged cadres to feel secure in serving in the state apparatus; the state apparatus is expanding; the Law on Civil Servants and the Law on Public Employees have come into effect but there are no implementation instructions; the quality and efficiency of the local government apparatus at the grassroots level is still limited in some places; the pilot effectiveness of not organizing People's Councils at the district, ward and town levels; solutions to help mountainous and disadvantaged provinces attract high-quality human resources, solutions to solve the problem of unemployed graduates; inadequacies in the conversion of civil servants to public employees; The unclear promotion mechanism leads to a rigid situation in the personnel structure, with some civil servants having excesses and others lacking; state officials lacking dynamism and creativity, unable to meet task requirements; the model of organizing district-level health departments, arranging staff to do population, family, and children work in communes, wards, and towns is ineffective, etc.




Ms. Le Thi Tam questioned Minister Nguyen Thanh Binh.

Ms. Le Thi Tam, National Assembly Delegation of Nghe An province had 2 questions to the Minister of Home Affairs, mentioning the problem that after some establishments were separated and merged, the total payroll did not decrease but on the contrary increased, the quality of the administrative reform project chaired by the Ministry of Home Affairs was not high; The decentralization of the establishment of internal organizations under the department and equivalent to the Provincial People's Committee to suit the requirements and characteristics of each locality, why has the Ministry of Home Affairs not advised the Government to decide? In the issue of recruitment exams for cadres, civil servants and public employees, to contribute to adjusting the shortcomings in the regulations on recruitment exams for civil servants, especially administrative civil servants, the Minister proposed 5 groups of solutions to overcome, however, only the 5th group of solutions is suitable to reality - Could the Minister please tell us the practical bases for the above solutions?

Responding to the question of delegate Le Thi Tam, Minister of Home Affairs Nguyen Thanh Binh admitted that the current separation and transfer has contributed to streamlining and improving the quality of staff at provincial-level focal agencies, but the total payroll at many grassroots agencies has not decreased. To overcome this, the Ministry will take note of the comments to advise the Government to make appropriate amendments; Regarding the second question of delegate Le Thi Tam, Minister Nguyen Thanh Binh will report and answer later in writing.

In the question and answer session this afternoon, there were 25 questions addressing two groups of social issues of concern, especially on the work of organizing cadres. Comrade Uong Chu Luu - Vice Chairman of the National Assembly, chairing the question and answer session this afternoon, highly appreciated the content of the questions and answers, which were frank, concise and clear; clarified the aspects that have been done and have not been done in training, recruitment, improving the quality of civil servants as well as salary reform; clearly identified the shortcomings as well as pointed out the responsibilities of relevant sectors and levels; the delegates had many proposals and measures to innovate the state management apparatus, regulations that are no longer suitable and inadequate such as amending the Law on the organization of People's Councils and People's Committees, building people's governments in rural and urban areas, and solutions to attract students with good expertise to work at the grassroots level.

Comrade Uong Chu Luu requested the Minister of Home Affairs to quickly propose solutions for urgent tasks, research and amend important policies to submit to the Government for approval.


Thanh Chung