Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that according to the plan to consolidate and merge a number of ministries and agencies, the Government apparatus is expected to have 13 ministries, 4 ministerial-level agencies, reducing 5 ministries and 3 agencies directly under the Government; reducing 12/13 general departments and organizations equivalent to general departments under ministries and ministerial-level agencies; 500 departments and equivalents under ministries and general departments; 177 departments under ministries, ministerial-level agencies and equivalents; 190 public service units under ministries and agencies within ministries. This number is higher than the direction set by the Central Government, according to VNA.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has completed the entire summary report of Resolution 18-NQ/TW; the Project on merging, consolidating, transferring functions, tasks, organizational structure and related documents, along with the project on ending the activities of the Party Executive Committee, establishing the Government Party Committee, Party Committees of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies under the Government.
After streamlining the focal points and adjusting the functions and state management tasks of ministries and ministerial-level agencies, the current overlapping problems have basically been overcome.
“After the reorganization and consolidation, the number of focal points of the organizations will be reduced by 35-40%, and the remaining organizations will be internally reorganized and reduced by at least 15%. The general departments and equivalent organizations will be basically eliminated. This number is very large, initially it is expected to reduce 500 departments under the ministries and general departments,” said Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra.
The Minister also said that the Ministry of Home Affairs is consulting on the completion of all related reports and projects to submit to the Politburo and the Central Steering Committee by December 25, 2024. This is an unprecedented amount of work, including guiding, urging, synthesizing, and coordinating the review of relevant legal documents, as well as orienting the arrangement of cadres, civil servants, and public employees within the Ministry's authority.
According to Ms. Pham Thi Thanh Tra, "the most important thing is that after the arrangement, there will be policies for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and related workers to stabilize their lives." Therefore, the Ministry of Home Affairs has urgently worked day and night to develop policies and regimes, and submit them to competent authorities for timely consideration.
Currently, the Ministry has completed the draft Decree on the regime and policies for cadres, civil servants, public employees and contract workers in the organizational arrangement of the political system. This content has been reported to the Party Committee and the Government Steering Committee to report to the Politburo in the next few days.
This draft decree puts forward very important viewpoints and principles. The spirit of the policy is "to make a revolution in streamlining the apparatus, the mechanisms and policies must also be revolutionary".
Therefore, this policy requires speed, strength, prominence, humanity, fairness, ensuring a reasonable correlation between subjects, in order to stabilize life, ensure rights and benefits for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers so that "no one is left behind in the process of rearranging and streamlining the organizational apparatus"; focusing on special and outstanding priorities to encourage subjects to retire immediately and retire within 12 months from the time the agency, organization, or unit carries out the rearrangement according to the decision of the competent authority.
