At the 13th Party Central Committee Conference held on January 23 and 24, the Central Committee highly agreed with the Summary Report of Resolution 18-NQ/TW and the plan to arrange and streamline the apparatus of the political system.
According to the plan to reorganize and streamline the apparatus that has been reviewed and agreed upon by the Central Government, the Government will not maintain the model of general departments and equivalent organizations under ministries and branches.
For departments and divisions, review, arrange, and consolidate in a streamlined manner, in accordance with state management requirements. Arrange and consolidate departments and divisions with interconnected tasks into one unit; basically there are no more divisions within the department.
For public non -business units, only maintenance of units perform the function of state management associated with the organization of internal organization, ensuring streamlining and meeting the criteria for establishing an organization as prescribed.
For the deputy heads of ministries, branches and units implementing mergers and consolidations, the collective leadership decides to arrange them as deputy heads of the new units after reorganization or assignment to other agencies according to the requirements of the tasks and capacity of the staff.
In the immediate future, the Government allows that after the reorganization, the number of deputies may be higher than the regulations, but ministries and branches must develop a plan to reduce the number of deputies in accordance with general regulations within 5 years.
Accordingly, the Government apparatus for the 2021-2026 term will be streamlined to 14 ministries and 3 ministerial-level agencies (a reduction of 5 ministries and branches, equivalent to 22.7%), including: Ministry of National Defense; Ministry of Public Security; Ministry of Justice; Ministry of Industry and Trade; Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Education and Training; Ministry of Health; Ministry of Finance; Ministry of Construction; Ministry of Agriculture and Environment; Ministry of Science and Technology; Ministry of Home Affairs; Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions; Government Office; Government Inspectorate; State Bank of Vietnam.
There are 5 agencies under the Government (a reduction of 3 agencies, equivalent to 37.5%), including: Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam Television, Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency.
The internal organization of ministries and branches (excluding data from the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security) decreased by 13/13 general departments and equivalents (down 100%), 519 departments and equivalents (down 77.6%, including 60 departments and equivalents under ministries and ministerial-level agencies; 459 departments and equivalents under general departments), 219 departments and equivalents (down 54.1%, including 121 departments and equivalents under ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies under the Government; 98 departments and equivalents under general departments).
Along with that, 3,303 branches and equivalents were reduced (equivalent to a reduction of 91.7%), after the arrangement there were 299 branches. 203 public service units were reduced, of which 79 units were reduced in the organizational structure in the Government's decree (a reduction of 38%).
The number of chief-level personnel also decreased correspondingly to the number of units, including 5 ministers, 3 heads of government agencies, 13 general directors, 519 department directors, 219 department heads and 3,303 branch directors...
