There are still more leaders than employees.
According to Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan, the arrangement, streamlining of the organizational apparatus, and reduction of staffing levels still have difficulties and obstacles, and have not met the set requirements. In particular, there is still a situation where there are more leaders than civil servants who do not hold leadership positions.
On the afternoon of February 21, the Government's Steering Committee for Administrative Reform held a meeting to review 2018 and deploy tasks for 2019. According to Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan, over the past year, administrative reform has been actively implemented, gradually meeting the country's development and integration needs.
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| Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan. |
Regarding the implementation of Resolution No. 18 and 19 on organizational and apparatus reorganization, the Minister of Home Affairs said that many units have implemented it effectively. In particular, the Ministry of Public Security has reorganized and eliminated 6 general departments, reduced nearly 60 department-level units and nearly 300 department-level units; reduced more than 500 department-level units under the Provincial Police, and nearly 1,000 team-level units under the District Police.
Besides, some localities have proactively implemented Conclusion No. 34 of the Politburo on piloting a number of models according to Resolution No. 18.
Typically, Lao Cai province merged the Department of Transport with the Department of Construction into the Department of Transport - Construction; Ha Giang province merged the Department of Home Affairs with the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board into the Organization - Home Affairs Board, and merged the Provincial Inspectorate with the Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Committee into the Provincial Inspection - Inspectorate Agency.
In addition, some localities such as Bac Lieu and Quang Tri have merged the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism with the Department of Information and Communications.
However, to ensure consistency, unity and effectiveness in the arrangement and consolidation of agencies and organizations, and to implement the Prime Minister's direction, the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a document requesting localities to temporarily suspend the arrangement of specialized agencies at district and provincial levels until the Government has specific regulations.
Besides the achieved results, Mr. Le Vinh Tan also frankly pointed out the fact that the arrangement, streamlining of the organizational apparatus, and streamlining of staff still have difficulties and problems, and have not met the set requirements.
The structure of the number of department-level leaders in provincial-level professional agencies in some places is still unreasonable. In particular, there is still a situation where there are more leaders than civil servants who do not hold leadership positions.
From there, Mr. Tan requested ministries, branches and localities to review and strictly implement regulations on the structure and number of deputies at agencies and units; at the same time, recruit and use civil servants in accordance with the capacity and standards of the approved job positions.
