Overlap and interference correction
The Steering Committee on summarizing the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW (Steering Committee of the Government) informed that, according to the direction of the Central Steering Committee, on the basis of implementing the plan to arrange and streamline the Government apparatus, the organization of the Government for the XV and XVI terms (term 2026-2031) is streamlined to 13 ministries, 4 ministerial-level agencies (reducing 5 ministries); there are 4 agencies under the Government (reducing 4 agencies under the Government).
Internal organization continues to streamline and streamline focal points, drastically reduce general departments, bureaus, divisions, and public service units under ministries, bureaus, divisions, and public service units under general departments.
After streamlining the focal points and adjusting the functions and State management tasks of ministries and ministerial-level agencies, the current overlapping problems have basically been overcome.
The plan of the Government Steering Committee is to maintain 8 ministries and ministerial-level agencies (with rearrangement and streamlining of internal organization), including: Ministry of National Defense; Ministry of Public Security; Ministry of Justice; Ministry of Industry and Trade; Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Government Office; Government Inspectorate; State Bank.
Restructure, arrange and merge the remaining 14 ministries and ministerial-level agencies, including merging the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance; the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Construction; the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development; the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Ministry of Science and Technology; the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Ministries of Education and Training, Health, Foreign Affairs and the Ethnic Committee will receive additional functions, tasks and organizations.
According to the Government Steering Committee, this plan has the advantage of perfecting the multi-sectoral, multi-field management organizational model for a number of fields; reasonably adjusting the assignment of State management for a number of sectors and fields, overcoming overlaps and interferences in functions and tasks between ministries and ministerial-level agencies.
Along with the above-mentioned arrangement of the Government apparatus organization model, the internal organization of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and Government agencies will be rearranged to be streamlined, effective, and efficient; at the same time, the restructuring of the staff, civil servants, and public employees will be carried out, the quality of the staff will be improved, and the payroll will be thoroughly reduced, in conjunction with the implementation of the policy to attract talented people to the public sector in accordance with the direction of the Politburo and the Party Central Committee.
Have strong and outstanding policies for affected subjects
However, in the Orientation Plan for the arrangement and streamlining of the Government's organizational apparatus, which has just been issued by the Government's Steering Committee, the arrangement plan is also pointed out to have limitations due to the large number of agencies subject to arrangement, wide scope of impact, and inevitable impact on the thinking of the team of cadres, civil servants, and public employees, especially those holding leadership positions.
To implement this arrangement plan, the scale and scope of a number of multi-sectoral and multi-field management ministries will be large, so careful preparation in personnel work is needed to ensure the plan is implemented synchronously and effectively.
To limit the impact of the restructuring and streamlining of the organizational apparatus on cadres, civil servants and public employees, the Government Steering Committee believes that there should be strong and outstanding policies for those affected by the restructuring process, in order to reduce the pressure on the ideology and psychology of cadres, civil servants and public employees and ensure the rights of cadres, civil servants and public employees during the restructuring process...
Accordingly, the Government Steering Committee assigned the Ministry of Home Affairs to propose policies and regimes for cadres, civil servants, and public employees, ensuring the rights of cadres and civil servants when implementing the organizational structure arrangement. This task must be completed before December 10, 2024 and reported to the Government Steering Committee.
