The People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has just issued a document to the heads of departments, branches, public service units, 100% state-owned enterprises and the People's Committees of districts, towns and Thu Duc City on the implementation of the policy of rearranging and streamlining the organizational apparatus according to Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW.
The Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee emphasized the need to thoroughly grasp and strictly implement the contents of Resolution 18, while promoting ideological work to create unity and consensus throughout the system. Units need to review and propose plans to arrange and streamline the organizational apparatus, ensuring higher efficiency than at present.
In particular, internal work processes need to be reviewed and information technology should be promoted to improve operational efficiency. The arrangement must ensure that work is not interrupted, areas or areas are not left vacant, and that people's lives and economic and social activities are not affected.
To implement the restructuring plan, Ho Chi Minh City temporarily stopped recruiting civil servants, including commune-level civil servants, and postponed the pilot plan to recruit leaders and managers at the department level and equivalent in 2024.
For state agencies, units and enterprises subject to reorganization and streamlining, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requires a temporary suspension of approving documents related to reorganization, appointment, transfer, rotation or nomination for higher positions.
The process of reappointment, extension of tenure, retirement or acceptance of resignation or termination of employment upon request is still carried out normally.
Units not subject to reorganization and streamlining also temporarily stop approving dossiers to perfect leadership and management positions.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee assigned the Department of Home Affairs to preside over and coordinate with relevant agencies and units to review the structure, number of personnel and task requirements to advise the Party Committee of the City People's Committee to decide on related issues.
For positions managed by the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee and the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, if there is a plan to reorganize, the process will continue to be implemented according to plan. However, all decisions must be consistent with the roadmap for restructuring the apparatus.
Recently, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee reported to the Ministry of Home Affairs on the results of implementing Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW after 7 years, and at the same time pointed out challenges and recommendations to optimize the organizational apparatus, ensuring effectiveness and efficiency.
The city has a high population density, rapid urbanization, and a large workload, but the infrastructure is not yet synchronized. The streamlining of staff needs to be done in parallel with ensuring economic development, security and order, social security, and investment attraction.
In the fields of education and health, the city faces great pressure. The number of students increases by 20,000 - 30,000 students each year, while the demand for medical examination and treatment in the city exceeds 40 million visits/year, accounting for a large proportion compared to the whole country. The city needs to strengthen medical facilities and medical personnel to achieve the target of 20-25 doctors/10,000 people.
In the coming time, Ho Chi Minh City will continue to review and streamline its apparatus, reduce intermediaries, and at the same time improve state management capacity, aiming to build a smart, modern urban area of regional stature.
The city proposed that the Central Government allow autonomy in terms of staffing and number of employees, in accordance with the actual development situation.
At the same time, the city proposed that provinces and cities with large budget revenues and not using the central budget to pay salaries, be allowed to decide on their own staffing to ensure better service for people and businesses, thereby contributing to increasing the national budget revenue.
