Pilot merger of 3 provincial offices: National Assembly Delegation, People's Committee, People's Council

The Government has just issued Resolution No. 10/NQ-CP on the Government's Action Program to implement Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW dated October 25, 2017 of the 6th Conference of the 12th Party Central Committee on a number of issues on continuing to innovate and reorganize the political system to be streamlined and operate effectively and efficiently; Plan No. 07-KH/TW dated November 27, 2017 of the Politburo to implement Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW; Resolution No. 56/2017/QH14 dated November 24, 2017 of the National Assembly on continuing to reform the state administrative apparatus to be streamlined and operate effectively and efficiently.

Reduce inter-sectoral coordination organizations and project management boards

In which, CThe government requires responsible localities to proactively review and reorganize the reduction of inter-sectoral coordination organizations and project management boards (to be implemented from 2018 and completed in 2019).

In addition, pilot the merger of the Office of the National Assembly Delegation, the Office of the People's Council and the Office of the People's Committee at the provincial level; pilot the merger of the Office of the Party Committee with the Office of the People's Council and the People's Committee at the district level in places with conditions according to regulations (implemented from 2018).

At the same time, develop a project, submit it to competent authorities and implement the arrangement and reorganization of district and commune-level administrative units and the merger of villages and residential groups according to regulations (implemented from 2018); develop a project, submit it to competent authorities for decision and pilot the model of organizing the administrative apparatus of urban, rural and island governments in places with conditions (implemented from 2021); implement the allocation of budget for allowances for non-professional workers at the commune, village and residential group levels (implemented from 2019).

Proactively review and continue to implement the self-management model in residential communities in villages and residential groups (implemented from 2018 and completed in 2019); review and rearrange the organization of specialized agencies under the People's Committees at provincial and district levels according to the Government's framework regulations; rearrange and reorganize public service units according to sectors, fields and market and social needs; streamline the payroll according to the roadmap, reduce the number of deputy heads of agencies, organizations and units in accordance with the actual situation in the locality (implemented from 2019).

Fundamentally reduce the number of general departments, bureaus, branches, divisions, and offices.

Regarding the organization and arrangement of agencies in the state administrative apparatus, the Government requires ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies under the Government to review, arrange, and streamline internal focal points, and fundamentally reduce the number of general departments, departments, branches, divisions, and offices; not to establish new organizations, not to establish offices within departments, and in special cases decided by competent authorities. Minimize project management boards. Resolutely merge, arrange, and reorganize public service units to reduce focal points and staff.

In addition, streamlining the payroll according to the roadmap, reducing the number of deputies of units and organizations under management, ensuring compliance with the actual situation at their agencies and regulations of the Party and Government; ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies under the Government assigned to manage a number of fields organized vertically, such as: Tax, customs, state treasury, social insurance... continue to reorganize according to inter-provincial or inter-district areas to reduce focal points and streamline payroll.

Ministries and ministerial-level agencies are responsible for drafting the Prime Minister's Decision regulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of general departments and equivalent organizations under their agencies, submitting them to the Prime Minister for promulgation; reviewing and rearranging inter-sectoral coordination organizations, especially organizations with specialized support units and project management boards, reporting to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision.

The Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security shall study and develop a project to review, consolidate, and reorganize the apparatus to meet the requirements of building a revolutionary, disciplined, elite military and police force, gradually modernizing and streamlining the payroll in accordance with new conditions; ensuring the strengthening of the Party's absolute and direct leadership in all aspects of the armed forces, in accordance with the general regulations of the political system and the specific characteristics of each force, and submitting it to competent authorities for consideration and decision; the Ministry of Public Security shall study and reorganize and reduce the number of investigative agencies to meet the requirements of criminal investigation, crime prevention and control, and in accordance with the organization and operation of the People's Procuracy and People's Court in the spirit of judicial reform./.