On December 17, at the Government Headquarters, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha chaired a meeting on the plan to arrange and merge the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Transport.
At the meeting, Minister of Transport Tran Hong Minh informed about the working session between the two ministries regarding the orientation of restructuring, arrangement and merger.
The two ministries are carefully reviewing to agree on a plan to implement the merger in the spirit of ensuring streamlining, effective and efficient operations, meeting the requirements and tasks in the new period.
Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi also affirmed that the merger plan is based on functional tasks, closely following and carefully reviewing overlapping and intersecting functional groups and tasks to streamline and merge scientifically, not mechanically.
At the same time, the units also reorganized the organization and apparatus to implement State management in a number of specific fields.
Minister Nguyen Thanh Nghi said that according to the initial assessment of the Joint Steering Committee between the two ministries, the merger plan basically meets the requirements set by the Central Steering Committee, the Government and the direction of the General Secretary.
The two ministries also determined the tasks and operations of the new ministry after the merger. The leaders of the two ministries are continuing to review and resolve difficulties and problems in the management of construction economics and some affiliated enterprises of the two sides...
Emphasizing the requirement of “non-mechanical merger, joining forces to become stronger”, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested the leaders of the two ministries to continue reviewing and clearly defining functions and tasks based on the mission set for the new ministry, thereby designing the organizational apparatus to implement appropriately, ensuring effectiveness, efficiency, and efficiency, “whatever task, that organization”.
The new Ministry after the merger must demonstrate a stronger innovative mindset, with a unified, consistent, and synchronous management vision through planning, regulations, and standards... on technical infrastructure of economic and social fields (transportation, industry, agriculture, energy, telecommunications, water supply and drainage...) across the country, as well as developing infrastructure networks from urban to rural areas.
Government leaders require that functional groups and overlapping, overlapping, and duplicate tasks must be arranged according to the principle that "one organization can perform many tasks, one task cannot be assigned to two organizations".
At the same time, the new ministry after the merger needs to perfect its apparatus and organization to perform the functions and tasks that the two ministries have not performed well or have just added.
The Deputy Prime Minister also requested the two ministries to closely coordinate with the Ministry of Home Affairs to develop clear policies and criteria when assessing the qualifications, capacity, experience, training, and fostering of cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers when restructuring the apparatus and personnel.
In particular, the Deputy Prime Minister especially noted "not to let the brain drain and waste of talented people"; to ensure the stable ideology of cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers.
