On the afternoon of October 1, the Government held a thematic meeting to evaluate the results of 3 months of implementing the 2-level local government model.
Reporting at the meeting, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that the administrative apparatus has been strongly streamlined, reducing the number of specialized agencies and intermediaries, helping to save budget and shorten the work handling process.
The responsibility of the head is promoted and clearly demonstrated through the regular inspection and supervision mechanism from the central to local levels.
Despite achieving many results, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra also frankly pointed out many difficulties and inadequacies in the implementation process.
Regarding the team of cadres and civil servants, at the commune level, many places have not met new requirements; the situation of surplus and shortage of cadres still exists, especially in specialized fields such as: Information Technology, finance, land, education, health. Recruitment of specialized human resources is facing difficulties due to lack of recruitment resources and limited contracts.
Some areas such as land management, finance, and foreign affairs activities at the commune level do not have clear instructions, causing confusion for localities. The coordination in resolving interconnected records (land, civil status, insurance, etc.) is still manual and takes a lot of time.
To overcome the problem, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra outlined key tasks and solutions from now until October 15.
The Minister emphasized the need to increase human resources for the commune level to meet assigned tasks, especially in areas of expertise; review, evaluate, classify, and restructure the team to ensure quality requirements and tasks.
Along with that is the task of completing the payment of regimes and policies according to Decree 178 and Decree 67, ensuring completion before October 15 as required by the Politburo.
"There are 36,542 people who have not been paid for policies and regimes. Recently, the Ministry of Finance issued Document No. 15041 to guide localities to focus on implementing payments. Thanks to that, within just one week, more than 3,000 cases were resolved," Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra informed.
In particular, some ministries, departments, branches and localities have completed the payment of benefits to retirees; many places have reached a rate of over 90%. However, there are still ministries, branches and localities that are not really determined, the payment rate is still low, below 60%.
Another important task is to strengthen inspection, supervision, guidance, and remove difficulties for localities in the implementation process; organize training and equip knowledge and skills for civil servants at the provincial and commune levels to effectively carry out decentralized and delegated tasks; promptly overcome shortcomings and limitations.
At the same time, complete the proposal for a plan to reorganize public service units, reorganize state-owned enterprises and the internal affairs of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies as well as state-owned enterprises.
"Regarding this content, we are currently synthesizing and coordinating with ministries, branches and localities to complete it, and we are expected to report to the Government Party Committee on the next day or the fifth," informed the Minister of Home Affairs.
Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra also proposed that leaders of the Government and Ministers directly survey 34 provinces and cities to thoroughly grasp reality and promptly remove obstacles in the process of implementing the 2-level local government model.
