The Ministry of Home Affairs plans that after streamlining, the Government will have 13 ministries and 4 ministerial-level agencies; reduce 5 ministries and 4 affiliated agencies, reduce 12/13 general departments and equivalents, 500 departments and equivalents under ministries and general departments, 177 departments under ministries, ministerial-level agencies and equivalents; reduce 190 public service units under ministries.
With such a reduction in the number of agencies, a large number of cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers will have to change jobs or quit. Streamlining the apparatus without streamlining the people is ineffective.
And streamlining personnel is important, facing many obstacles and interventions, extremely difficult.
Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that the Ministry will propose policies to screen and select retired officials, civil servants, and public employees, and to streamline the payroll, restructure, and improve the quality of the team. The Minister emphasized: "It is necessary to retain good, capable, and qualified officials to avoid brain drain."
According to Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra, "brain drain" here means that talented and capable people are not retained in state agencies, but for various reasons, will go out to work in the private sector. People with "brains" working anywhere will help the country, but if there are many talented and virtuous people in the state apparatus, it will be better.
However, it is not enough to stop at "brain drain", but to "attract brains" to state agencies. Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that by the end of December, the Ministry of Home Affairs is expected to complete the policy of attracting and promoting talented people to the public sector.
Screening to select talented people to stay and serve is difficult, making good use of talented people among all is even more difficult. But if determined and have appropriate policies, it will definitely be done.
The Minister of the Interior once announced the proposal of "special, outstanding" policies to carry out the "revolution" of streamlining the apparatus. It is true that policies must be special and outstanding to attract special and outstanding people.
We must push the working style of "going to work in the morning and carrying an umbrella home in the evening" into the past, and completely eliminate the type of cadres who only know how to attend meetings and clap their hands, and replace them with brains rich in "gray matter", proficient in their profession, and fair-minded.
