On December 20, the People's Committee of Quang Nam province issued Plan No. 9919 on the orientation of arranging and streamlining the organizational apparatus of provincial government agencies and units.
According to Plan No. 9919, the block of specialized agencies and administrative organizations under the Provincial People's Committee will continue to maintain 4 departments and branches (but with the arrangement and streamlining of the internal apparatus), specifically: Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Provincial Inspectorate; Department of Justice; Management Board of economic zones and industrial parks of the province.
Implement the merger of the Department of Planning and Investment and the Department of Finance; merge the Department of Transport and the Department of Construction; merge the Department of Natural Resources and Environment and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development; merge the Department of Information and Communications and the Department of Science and Technology; merge the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Department of Home Affairs, transfer the state management function of vocational education to the Department of Education and Training; transfer the state management function of social protection, children, and prevention of social evils to the Department of Health; transfer the function and task of poverty reduction to the Provincial Ethnic Committee.
Merge the Department of Foreign Affairs into the Provincial People's Committee Office, transfer functions and tasks related to foreign non-governmental aid mobilization and management of foreign non-governmental organizations in Vietnam to the Department of Economics and Finance (after the merger).
The Office of the Provincial People's Committee performs the functions and tasks of the current Office of the Provincial People's Committee and the functions and tasks transferred from the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Reorganize departments and branches: Department of Health, Department of Education and Training, Department of Industry and Trade, Ethnic Minorities Committee.
The total number of specialized agencies and administrative organizations under the Provincial People's Committee after the rearrangement is 13 specialized agencies and 1 administrative organization under the Provincial People's Committee (reducing 6 departments and branches).
For public service units under the Provincial People's Committee, the remaining arrangement is 7 units (reduced by 1 unit).
For departments, branches and localities that are not reorganized, the organizational structure will be streamlined, reducing at least 15% of the number of focal points within agencies and units (excluding organizations subject to consolidation or merger due to overlapping functions and tasks when implementing consolidation or merger). Review all activities of steering committees towards ending their activities, only retaining steering committees with necessary functions and tasks.
