Strictly handle negative manifestations in personnel organization work.

On the afternoon of January 24, the Department of Home Affairs held a conference to summarize the work of 2018 and deploy tasks for 2019. Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the conference.

Tighten payroll management

In 2018, the Department of Home Affairs focused on advising the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee to issue projects, programs, and plans for the province to arrange and improve the organizational apparatus of agencies and units in the area. Nghe An is one of the top provinces assessed by the Ministry of Home Affairs to have performed well in streamlining the payroll.

In which, the project to reorganize the apparatus and streamline the staff for 32/36 departments and branches was appraised; the project to reorganize the apparatus and staff of cadres, civil servants and public employees for 15/21 districts, cities and towns was appraised; and the Ministry of Home Affairs was submitted for approval for 414 subjects to retire early and quit their jobs immediately according to Decree 108 of the Government. The Department also advised the Provincial People's Committee to develop and promulgate a pilot administrative reform project at 7 pilot units.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh gave a speech at the conference. Photo: Thanh Le

The Department submitted to the Provincial People's Committee for approval the Job Position Project (up to now, 55/55 agencies and units have been approved); 395 people have been assessed as eligible for early retirement and immediately quit their jobs.

Administrative reform work has many positive changes. The province's ranking in administrative reform, PAPI, PAXINDEX, PCI indexes in 2018 were raised.

Improve the quality of cadres and civil servants

Speaking at the Conference, acknowledging the achievements and pointing out the shortcomings in 2018, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh requested that in 2019, the Department of Home Affairs should continue to focus on advising Party committees and authorities at all levels to issue plans and organize the effective rearrangement and consolidation of the organizational apparatus.

Director of the Department of Home Affairs reports on administrative reform work. Photo: Thanh Le

According to the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, although administrative reform has changed, there have been no breakthrough solutions, and there are still cases of officials and civil servants violating administrative discipline and public ethics.

Therefore, the Department of Home Affairs needs to strengthen solutions to improve the province's administrative reform ranking, especially in 2019. The Department of Home Affairs needs to advise the Provincial Party Standing Committee to implement the year of Administrative Reform; strengthen discipline, order, and public ethics among cadres, civil servants, and public employees.

Checking the compliance with administrative discipline in Quy Chau district. Photo: Thanh Le

Comrade Le Hong Vinh noted that the industry needs to strictly handle negative manifestations in the work of organizing cadres, especially in the work of planning, recruitment, promotion, appointment, rotation of cadres, civil servants, and public employees; and perfect policies for cadres of communes, wards, and towns.

The Department of Home Affairs needs to research and innovate processes and apply information technology in recruitment exams, civil servant promotion exams, and professional title promotion exams for civil servants to ensure objectivity, publicity, and transparency.

Advise the Provincial People's Committee to issue a Project to rearrange district and commune-level administrative units in the province and a project to merge hamlets, blocks, and villages; strengthen inspection and examination of public service, organization, staffing, recruitment, promotion, and appointment; review and synthesize the number of deputy heads in agencies, organizations, and units to report to the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee.

Chairman of Anh Son District People's Committee Nguyen Huu Sang speaks at the conference. Photo: Thanh Le

At the same time, the Home Affairs sector needs to pay attention to building, recruiting, training and fostering a team of cadres and civil servants to meet increasingly high job requirements.