Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh directed the arrangement of headquarters and public assets so that the new apparatus can operate smoothly.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed an Official Dispatch on ensuring material facilities for State agencies, organizations and units when implementing the arrangement and streamlining of the apparatus, and the arrangement of administrative units to build a two-level local government model.

Telegram to ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, government agencies; Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities.

In particular, it is stated that through monitoring the reality in localities, there have been a number of difficulties and problems in purchasing assets, equipment, repairing and renovating offices, official residences, as well as in the decentralization mechanism, funding sources, etc., which can delay and disrupt work, affecting the organization and operation of agencies and units when they officially come into operation under the new organizational model.

Therefore, the Prime Minister requested the Chairmen of the People's Committees of localities to effectively implement the Ministry of Finance's guidelines on principles for handling state finances and budgets when reorganizing administrative units at all levels; promptly deploy tasks and requirements on digital transformation and information technology to serve the arrangement of the apparatus according to requirements and progress.

Arrange and allocate headquarters, public assets under management, and facilities for the apparatus according to the new model and ensure normal operations without interruption, without affecting the provision of public services and the settlement of administrative procedures for people and businesses.

For headquarters and surplus public assets, develop a plan and organize implementation to handle them in accordance with legal regulations, instructions of the Prime Minister, guidance of the Ministry of Finance and relevant ministries and agencies.

Notably, the Government has instructed localities to apply the form of contractor selection in special cases to repair and renovate offices and official residences for provincial and communal officials and civil servants in cases where there is an urgent need for progress.

Ministries, branches and Government agencies are assigned to proactively grasp, guide and promptly handle difficulties and problems of localities in the assigned branches and fields.

The Prime Minister assigned Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc to directly handle the problem immediately under the Prime Minister's authority; there must be no congestion or delay.