According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the arrangement and use of headquarters and handling of public finance and assets after the provincial-level arrangement must comply with the Government's regulations on rearrangement and handling of public finance and assets and the instructions of the Ministry of Finance.
With 4,226 surplus public offices after the arrangement, if there is no appropriate and effective exploitation and use plan, it will be a huge waste.
Before this arrangement and merger, many localities had redundant public offices, abandoned, degraded, damaged, and even become garbage dumps. Public opinion is outraged, people are upset, the press reports, but there is no change.
There are many reasons for the abandonment of public offices, but the main reason is that local leaders do not want to implement the use options, out of fear of responsibility. If you do the right thing, no one will praise you, if you do wrong, you will be disciplined, so not doing it is the safest way.
At this time, it is necessary to immediately eliminate the thought of self-safe, but to consider the common good. What is the common benefit, first of all, taking advantage of the old facilities for work, not building new ones, do not use the excuse of merging new administrative units to build new ones.
The merged provinces need to have many public housing units to serve cadres and civil servants, use surplus headquarters as accommodation, do not build more expensive and wasteful public housing units.
For "golden" land locations, it is necessary to calculate business and lease plans to generate revenue for the budget. Currently, many localities have many headquarters located on major streets and central areas, but do not use or do not do business, while if they rent a premises, they will earn hundreds of millions of VND/month. Localities cannot lease because of legal procedures related to land and assets on the land.
There needs to be a mechanism to remove obstacles so that localities can implement business plans in accordance with the provisions of law, freeing up huge resources of the country.
Another big thing is that many localities need land funds for social housing, needing mechanisms and policies to allow the conversion of public headquarters to implement social housing projects.
Non-business headquarters can be converted into medical facilities, education, cultural and sports centers to serve the cultural and spiritual life of the people.
There are public headquarters that can be boldly demolished to make parks, which also creates value for society.
