The maximum quota for using public vehicles is 2 vehicles/commune.
Reducing about 60 - 70% of grassroots administrative units compared to the present, it is expected that there will be about 3,000 - 4,000 communes, so at least 6,000 vehicles are needed for commune level.
Where are public vehicles?
Arrange to have 34 provinces and cities, reduce by nearly half, and public transport will certainly be redundant. Abandoning the district level, all public vehicles of the remaining 696 district-level administrative units were there. Not to mention, the merger of some departments, branches and public transport is also partially redundant.
The above surplus vehicles may be enough to be issued to wards and communes.
According to the calculation of the Department of Public Administration (Ministry of Finance), there will be about 6,000 cars assigned to the commune level. The current number of public vehicles from the district level is corresponding. The Department of Public Administration calculates how the total number of vehicles according to the new regulations does not exceed the number of existing vehicles.
If calculated like that, localities do not have to spend their budgets to buy new cars, save money to do many other things that are more necessary, including support policies for cadres and civil servants who quit their jobs and retire early.
However, in general, it is not enough to make regulations, that is, localities arrange to bring cars back to the commune level for use, not approving the purchase of new cars.
Another thing that needs to be calculated is that it is time not to use too many cars, but to make the most of technology applications for management. We talk a lot about e-government and digitalization, so this is the time for drastic reform, creating a modern administrative environment and space, working and holding online meetings is the main focus, minimizing manual labor.
To operate e-government, there must be an information technology infrastructure that meets the requirements. The commune level must be equipped with facilities, machinery and equipment corresponding to the applications that need to be exploited.
For this requirement, there is another requirement to practice thrift. We must make the most of district-level headquarters with appropriate locations and equipment to serve as agencies for commune-level agencies, limiting the construction of new headquarters.
Exploiting machinery, computers, and facilities of district-level agencies for use by commune-level administrative units, without having to buy more.
One of the goals of streamlining is to reduce people and the burden of the budget to reserve resources for development investment, so it is not possible to increase additional costs after restructuring the apparatus.
Cars for the commune level are necessary, but only surplus public vehicles are used, no new cars are purchased.
