According to Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra, following the direction of the Central Steering Committee on summarizing the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, after the arrangement and merger, the Government's apparatus will be reduced by 5 ministries and 4 government agencies.
Thus, the Government apparatus will be streamlined from 30 to 21 focal points (9 focal points reduced) including: 13 ministries, 4 ministerial-level agencies and 4 agencies under the Government.
In which, as planned, the names of the following Ministries after the arrangement and consolidation of the apparatus are as follows:
Ministry of Finance and Development Investment or Ministry of Economic Development
Merge the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance. The proposed name of the Ministry after the arrangement is the Ministry of Finance and Development Investment or the Ministry of Economic Development.
Ministry of Infrastructure and Urban Affairs
Merge the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Construction. The proposed name of the Ministry after the arrangement is the Ministry of Infrastructure and Urban Areas.
Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Environment
Merge the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The proposed name of the Ministry after the arrangement is the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Environment.
Ministry of Digital Transformation and Science, Technology or Ministry of Digital Transformation, Science, Technology and Information
Merge the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Ministry of Science and Technology. The expected name of the Ministry after the arrangement is the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Science, Technology or the Ministry of Digital Transformation, Science, Technology and Information.
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Labor
Merge the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Home Affairs into the Ministry of Home Affairs and Labor; transfer the state management function of vocational education to the Ministry of Education and Training; transfer the state management function of social protection, children, and prevention and control of social evils to the Ministry of Health.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes over the main tasks of the Central Commission for External Relations and the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee when these two units cease their operations.
The Ministry of National Defense will carry out the arrangement of internal organizational units according to the decision of the Politburo. The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Management Board will be transferred to the Ministry of National Defense for direct management, within the organizational structure of this Ministry.
The Ethnic Committee received the Government Committee for Religious Affairs from the Ministry of Home Affairs and received the functions and tasks of poverty reduction from the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.
