On January 11, at the Government Headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Government Steering Committee on "Summing up the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW of the 12th Central Committee on continuing to innovate and reorganize the apparatus of the political system to be streamlined and operate effectively and efficiently" chaired the 9th meeting of the Steering Committee.
In his concluding remarks, the Prime Minister highly appreciated the efforts in implementing the tasks and preparing the meeting of the Ministry of Home Affairs - the standing agency of the Steering Committee and relevant agencies in developing, supplementing and completing reports, proposing plans to implement the arrangement and streamlining of the apparatus according to the direction of competent authorities.
The Prime Minister stated that seriously implementing the direction of the Politburo and the Central Steering Committee, the meeting agreed on a plan to submit to the competent authority on the organizational structure of the Government, accordingly, it is expected that there will be 22 ministries and agencies, including 17 ministries and ministerial-level agencies (reducing 5 ministries and agencies) and 5 agencies under the Government (reducing 3 agencies).
Along with that, ministries and agencies reduced many units at the general department, department, bureau, office, and public service unit levels.
Regarding the number of units and internal organizations of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies, the Prime Minister assigned Deputy Prime Ministers in each field to continue directing ministries, branches, and agencies to review and propose plans to ensure no overlap or omission of functions and tasks; one task is assigned to only one agency, and one agency does many tasks.
Agencies that have not achieved the target and targets for reducing internal units must redo their plans to achieve the target, ensuring that non-merged or consolidated ministries reduce at least 15-20% of units, and merged or consolidated ministries reduce at least 35% or more.
The Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security alone completed the tasks and objectives according to Resolution No. 05 of the Politburo on the organization of the people's army and Resolution No. 12 of the Politburo on promoting the building of the people's police force.
Accordingly, it is necessary to continue reviewing and reporting to competent authorities on the arrangement of units and agencies according to the conclusions, policies and orientations of the Central Committee, the Politburo, the Central Steering Committee and the Government Steering Committee.
The Ministry of Public Security continues to research, develop and complete the Project to arrange and streamline the local police apparatus to operate effectively and efficiently.
The Prime Minister requested that agencies continue to urgently supplement and complete reports and plans to report to competent authorities, ensuring progress and quality; the spirit is to put national interests first and foremost; choose the most beneficial and best plan, and assign work to whoever does the best.
Do not let it affect or interrupt, and must do a better job of performing the functions and tasks of ministries, branches, agencies, and serving the work and activities of people and businesses.
The Prime Minister also emphasized the need to streamline the apparatus, reduce staffing associated with restructuring and improving the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees; doing a good job of ideological work and policies for cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers to maintain solidarity and unity in agencies and retain and attract talented people, people who can do the job, have capacity, qualities and prestige.
