Prime Minister: Immediately replace and transfer officials who avoid and push things around

On April 19, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed and issued an official dispatch on rectification and strengthening of responsibility in handling work of ministries, agencies and localities.

The dispatch clearly stated that recently, in reality, in some ministries, agencies, localities and a number of cadres and civil servants, there has been a situation of avoiding and pushing work, being hesitant, afraid of making mistakes, afraid of responsibility, not daring to advise, propose handling work, not deciding on work within their authority.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh: Do not transfer work under the authority of your ministry or agency to another ministry or agency.

There are cases where work is pushed to higher-level agencies or to other ministries and agencies, lacking close, timely and effective coordination between ministries, agencies and localities...

This situation leads to a prolonged work process, hindering and reducing the effectiveness and efficiency of the direction and administration of authorities at all levels. In particular, some places are very stagnant, reducing the trust of people and businesses in state agencies, affecting the implementation of the proposed socio-economic development goals.

Do not answer in a general, irresponsible or evasive manner.

To rectify existing shortcomings and limitations, enhance responsibility, promote the spirit of daring to speak, daring to think, daring to act for the benefit of the country and the people in ministries, agencies, localities, cadres and civil servants; overcome the situation of shirking and avoiding responsibility in handling work; ensure discipline and administrative discipline and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of direction and administration; the Prime Minister issued a series of requests.

Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of agencies under the Government, the Prime Minister requires them to take personal, direct and comprehensive responsibility before the Government, the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers and before the law for matters within their authority, assigned, authorized and tasked.

The Prime Minister noted that work under the authority of one's ministry or agency should not be transferred to another ministry or agency; work determined to be under the authority of another ministry or agency should not be handled; documents should be returned to agencies, units, and localities for consultation if they are not within the authority or within the authority of the agency or unit requesting consultation.

When handling work, the minister and head of the presiding agency must be proactive and actively coordinate effectively; do not seek coordination opinions from unrelated or unnecessary agencies, which will affect the progress of work handling. The ministry and agency that is consulted has the responsibility to respond on time, with clear opinions; do not respond generally, irresponsibly or avoid responsibility.

In case the consulted ministry or agency fails to respond or is slow to respond within the prescribed time limit, it shall be deemed to agree with the opinions and proposals of the consulted agency in accordance with the provisions of the Government's working regulations. The consulted agency shall notify in writing and the ministry or agency that fails to respond or is slow to respond shall be responsible before the law, the Government and the Prime Minister.

For documents, proposals, and projects submitted to the Government and the Prime Minister that still have different opinions among ministries and agencies on the main contents of the project, the minister and head of the presiding agency must promote personal responsibility, proactively work directly with the minister and head of the agency that has different opinions to discuss and reach agreement before submitting to the Government and the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister also requested that the chairmen of provincial and municipal People's Committees take responsibility for deciding on issues within their authority or being delegated or authorized according to the provisions of law; not submit or report on work within their authority to the Government, the Prime Minister and ministries and central agencies; not abuse the use of consulting central agencies to avoid responsibility...

Individualizing the responsibility of collectives and individuals in performing public duties

The Prime Minister requested ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government agencies, and chairmen of provincial and municipal People's Committees to specify and individualize the authority and responsibility of collectives and individuals in each stage of the work processing process, absolutely not allowing the shirking or evasion of responsibility, ensuring that work under their authority must be handled quickly, promptly, and shortening the implementation time.

Along with that, strengthen the inspection of public service activities, especially surprise inspections; promptly review, replace or transfer to other jobs for officials and civil servants with weak capacity, who do not dare to do, avoid, push away, lack responsibility, delay and do not meet the requirements of the work assigned by competent authorities.

In case of shirking, evasion, lack of responsibility leading to delays or failure to decide on issues and tasks within the authority, the collective and individual responsibilities involved must be reviewed and handled in accordance with the regulations of the Party and the State. At the same time, acts of causing trouble, harassment, corruption, and negativity must be strictly handled.

The Prime Minister also noted, commended and rewarded promptly and appropriately agencies, collectives, cadres and civil servants who are resolute in performing their duties, completing their tasks well, daring to speak, think, act, and be proactive and creative for the common good.

The Head of Government assigned the Minister of Home Affairs to urgently review and propose solutions to perfect legal regulations to create a safe and complete legal environment and corridor for ministries, agencies, localities, cadres and civil servants to confidently perform their public duties according to regulations.

At the same time, specify the process and individualize the responsibility of the collective and individuals in performing public duties to ensure that there is no evasion or shirking of responsibility in handling work; report and propose to the Prime Minister in May.

The Ministry of Home Affairs urgently completes the draft Decree on encouraging and protecting dynamic, creative cadres who dare to think, dare to do, and dare to make breakthroughs for the common good, and reports to the Government this June.

The Prime Minister emphasized the need to resolutely overcome the situation of shirking responsibility, avoiding responsibility, not daring to do, not daring to advise, propose, not daring to take responsibility in agencies, units, cadres and civil servants, shortening the time to process work and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of direction and administration.