On July 15, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Government's Administrative Reform Steering Committee , chaired the 8th meeting.
According to the Government Office, the report at the meeting said that in the first 6 months of the year, the Government and the Prime Minister issued many resolutions, directives, and telegrams urging reform of the administrative apparatus organization, reform administrative procedures, strengthen discipline and discipline.
Reform of administrative procedures and improvement of the investment and business environment have been promoted. Assigned to pilot the model of one-level public administrative service centers under the Provincial People's Committee in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Quang Ninh, and Binh Duong.
In addition, organizational reform was implemented drastically and there were many positive changes. To date, 33 ministerial-level public service units have been reduced. It is expected that in 2024, there will be a reduction of 72 public service units under the authority of the Prime Minister.
Localities have reduced 10 department-level organizations under the Provincial People's Committee and 8 department-level organizations under the district People's Committee. In addition, 53 provinces and cities arranged 49 district-level units and 1,247 commune-level units.
Regarding staff streamlining, in the first 6 months of 2024, ministries, branches and localities reduced 3,853 people; Of which, there are 3,746 local people. At the same time, recruiting 30 excellent graduates and young scientific staff.
The salary policy reform has had positive results, officially increasing the base salary from 1.8 million VND to 2.34 million VND effective from July 1. In addition, discipline and public service discipline are tightened; strictly handle violations. In the first 6 months of the year, 139 officials, 432 civil servants and 767 public employees were disciplined.
State budget revenue in 6 months reached 60% of estimate, up 15.7%; has accumulated about 700,000 billion VND from increased revenue and saved State budget expenditures to use for base salary increases, pensions, and benefits from July 1.
At the meeting, the Prime Minister took roll call and praised some good examples such as Hanoi, Da Nang, Quang Tri, Hau Giang, Binh Phuoc, Ba Ria - Vung Tau, Khanh Hoa, and the State Bank. , Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Finance... in administrative reform.
Among them, Hau Giang is a very notable case with many new initiatives. The province has implemented the solution "Innovating to streamline staffing associated with recruiting young officials on par with their tasks".
To "streamline staffing and change officials", the province aims to streamline 5% of civil servants and 10% of public employees according to the 2020-2026 roadmap assigned by the Central Government, while also streamlining 5% of civil servants and 5% of public employees. officials to recruit young officials with qualifications and capacity to meet new requirements and tasks.
The province issued additional specific policies to encourage officials who do not meet the requirements to voluntarily downsize, to streamline and recruit young officials who meet task requirements and are suitable for the job position.
To have a basis for streamlining payrolls and changing cadres, the Provincial Party Committee further implemented Project 09 in 2024 regulating employment positions for agencies and public service units of the Party, Fatherland Front and major organizations. socio-politics of Hau Giang province.
Accordingly, cadres, civil servants and public employees will perform tasks according to approved job positions , write daily work diaries in an electronic form to quantify, measure and evaluate the effectiveness of their work. with assigned responsibilities.
The project has been implemented since January 2024, and initially showed that many officials did not complete their working hours of 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week. Hau Giang's leaders said this proves that the current shortage is "lack of people who know how to work" and that 4 people have planned to resign.
