Deputy Minister of Home Affairs: Arrangement of apparatus and personnel is a ‘sensitive’ issue

The Prime Minister asked ministries and branches to have a plan to arrange departments and general departments to send them to the Ministry of Home Affairs right this March. At a press conference on the afternoon of March 30, responding to the results, Mr. Tran Van Khiem, Director of the Department of Personnel Organization (Ministry of Home Affairs) said that up to now, ministries and ministerial-level agencies have completed the review. , arrange and propose a draft Decree stipulating the tasks, functions and powers of the ministries, and send it to the Ministry of Justice for appraisal according to regulations.

In the spirit of the Innovation Steering Committee, the organizational arrangement of the apparatus of ministries, ministerial-level agencies and agencies attached to the Government, for organizations under the structure of ministries and branches, shall comply with the Government’s regulations. government.

If there are any problems with the opinions of the ministries, branches or appraisal agencies, they shall report them to the Steering Committee for comments before submitting them to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision. Currently, the appraisal has been submitted and will be submitted to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision in the near future. There are still differences of opinion between the ministries, the proposing agency and the appraisal agency, so they are reporting to the competent authorities for opinions.

Deputy Interior Minister Nguyen Duy Thang said that the whole country has 18 ministries, 4 ministerial-level agencies, 8 government agencies, including 2 National Universities, a total of 32 agencies.

In the process of reviewing the functions and duties of these agencies, they must ensure compliance with the principles stated in Resolution 18 of the 6th Plenum of the 12th Central Committee and the Government’s decrees on criteria for establishment, ensuring the interoperability. and effective effect. At the same time, downsizing the staff must always be associated with the organizational arrangement of the apparatus, the restructuring of the team and the assessment and classification of cadres, civil servants and public employees.

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Nguyen Duy Thang speaks at the press conference.

The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Justice appraise and submit to the Government, but before submitting to the Government to report to the Steering Committee and report to the Prime Minister, the Minister is directly reporting to the Prime Minister with the ministries.

The Ministry of Home Affairs strives to achieve the earliest progress, but through the review process, it has been shown that the organizational arrangement of the apparatus and personnel are extremely “sensitive and complicated” issues that need to be shared by the public. share, because it requires both doing and ensuring the stability and effectiveness and efficiency of the apparatus.

As for the Ministry of Home Affairs in “setting an example” of arrangement, after having Resolution No. 18 of the 6th Plenum of the 12th Central Committee and the Government’s action plan, the Ministry of Home Affairs has reviewed and rearranged the internal apparatus. in set.

Deputy Minister Nguyen Duy Thang informed that training and retraining schools have been merged into the Academy of Administration; Schools of religion, emulation also have rearrangement. In particular, there is basically no longer a division in the department under the Ministry and the department in the department under the General Department; The focal points of the academy, the school, the Department of Archives and Records, etc. were also reviewed. The total number of clues inside the non-business units under the Ministry has been reduced to 18 clues.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is assigned by the Government to perform state management in the field of administrative organization, of course, it must strictly comply with the Party’s regulations and the law. With the principle of “one unit, an organization can do many things, but only one unit is assigned to act as the focal point”, ensuring the effective use of the team.

Currently at the Ministry of Home Affairs, some cases have a lot of workload, working day and night, such as the Department of Civil Service and Public Officials; Department of Organization and Personnel, Department of Local Government, Department of Non-Governmental Organizations and some other units.

In the process of decentralization, there are units due to high workload, working day and night, and briefing meetings are often criticized for being behind schedule. Therefore, it is necessary to review and re-evaluate to ensure continuity in work, with the principle that one unit is assigned many tasks and ensures the highest efficiency in using the team.

“The Ministry of Home Affairs sets an example in this. The ministry will review and arrange it, and try to work with the Ministry of Justice to appraise and submit to the Government to soon issue a plan to arrange the apparatus”, the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs emphasized. strong.

Tran Thuong