The Government is expected to have 13 ministries and 4 ministerial-level agencies.
Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra emphasized this when presenting a speech at the National Conference summarizing Party building work in 2024 and deploying tasks for 2025, held on December 16, organized by the Central Organizing Committee.
The Minister of Home Affairs said that the Government is focusing on implementing tasks related to summarizing Resolution 18 of the Central Executive Committee; the project of merging, consolidating, transferring functions, tasks, organizations, and apparatus in the Government sector. Along with that, it is synchronously issuing many related legal documents to ensure timely implementation when organizing and arranging the apparatus in the Government system.
Regarding the structure, up to now, the Government plans to have 13 ministries, 4 ministerial-level agencies, 4 agencies directly under the Government, reducing many ministries and agencies directly under the Government; reducing 12/13 general departments and equivalent.
The Ministry of Home Affairs is the advisory agency that is also completing all the relevant project reports to advise the Government Party Committee to submit to the Politburo on December 25.
Along with that, implementing documents to guide ministries, ministerial-level agencies and localities on the arrangement of cadres, civil servants and public employees related to the arrangement of organizational apparatus within their authority. Coming soon will be related instructions on the arrangement of specialized agencies under the Provincial People's Committee and District People's Committee so that localities can be more proactive.
Focus on maintaining and retaining good, capable staff.
Also according to Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra, regarding the policy for cadres, civil servants and public employees when reorganizing the apparatus, the Ministry of Home Affairs has completed the Draft Decree, reported to the Party Committee and the Government's Steering Committee to report to the Politburo in the nearest time, in which very important viewpoints and principles are included.
Firstly, to make a revolution, the mechanism and policies must also be revolutionary, requiring speed, strength, prominence, humanity, fairness, ensuring a reasonable overall correlation between subjects to stabilize the lives, rights and interests of cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers, so that no one is left behind in the process of streamlining the organization of the political system.
Second, focus on special and outstanding priorities to encourage subjects to retire immediately and within 12 months from the time the agency or unit organizes the arrangement according to the decision of the competent authority.
Third, policy development is linked to the responsibility of leaders and units in evaluating, screening, and selecting retired cadres, civil servants, and public employees, in conjunction with streamlining the payroll and restructuring, and improving the quality of the team to meet requirements and tasks. In particular, it emphasizes the importance of maintaining and retaining good cadres with capacity and qualities equal to the task to avoid "brain drain".
In line with the above policy, according to Ms. Pham Thi Thanh Tra, the Ministry of Home Affairs is currently finalizing a policy on attracting and employing talented people in the public sector and is trying to issue it by the end of December 2024 for implementation.
Other related contents are also being completed by the Ministry of Home Affairs and reported to competent authorities for timely implementation, meeting the requirements and tasks set forth by the Politburo, the Central Executive Committee, the Central Organizing Committee, and the Government Steering Committee.
