The Government's Steering Committee for Administrative Reform held its 8th Meeting.

On the morning of July 15, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Government's Steering Committee for Administrative Reform (SCAR), chaired the 8th meeting of the SCAR. The meeting was connected online to 63 provinces and centrally-run cities. At the Ninh Thuan bridge, there was comrade Le Huyen, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of departments, branches and localities in the province.

According to the Steering Committee's report, in the first 6 months of 2024, the Government and the Prime Minister continued to closely direct; ministries, branches, localities, people and businesses have resolutely taken action to remove bottlenecks, promote administrative reform, and improve the business environment. Many of Vietnam's indicators have been upgraded, including the business environment ranking increasing by 12 places, ranking 106th in the world business freedom index, up 4 places compared to 2022; ranking 46th out of 132 countries and economies in the global innovation index, up 2 places compared to 2022. The Government and the Prime Minister have listened to and contacted people and the business community to direct research and handling of feedback and recommendations on mechanisms, policies, and administrative procedures. The arrangement and consolidation of the organizational apparatus, the completion of regulations on job positions in agencies and organizations in the political system, and salary administrative reform continued to have clear changes; administrative discipline and order were strengthened. The construction and development of e-Government and digital Government were carried out synchronously, with many more specific results.

In the last 6 months of the year, ministries, branches and localities will continue to have specific, practical solutions and create strong breakthroughs to effectively and on schedule implement the tasks set out in the 2024 administrative reform plan. Focus on implementing the following tasks: Removing difficulties and obstacles for people and businesses; improving the efficiency of disbursement of public investment capital, creating conditions to promote socio -economic development; rearranging, reorganizing, and improving the operational efficiency of public service units; rearranging district and commune-level administrative units; effectively implementing the salary reform policy from July 1, 2024 according to the conclusion of the Politburo; building e-Government, digital Government, national digital transformation according to the approved plan and roadmap...

Comrade Le Huyen, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired at the Ninh Thuan province bridge point.

Concluding the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh commended and highly appreciated the efforts, attempts and achievements of ministries, branches and localities in administrative reform work; the drastic direction of the members of the Steering Committee for Administrative Reform in the past time. Deploying the administrative reform tasks in the coming time, the Prime Minister emphasized the viewpoint and spirit of "5 pushes" including: Stepping up the review of regulations, removing difficulties, obstacles, and bottlenecks in institutions, mechanisms and policies to mobilize all domestic and foreign resources for development; stepping up dialogue, sharing, and handling difficulties and shortcomings for people and businesses, especially in administrative procedures; stepping up reform of the civil service regime, strengthening discipline, order, preventing and repelling corruption and negativity; stepping up digital transformation, building a digital government, a digital society, digital citizens, digitizing data and records; stepping up non-cash payments in all fields and all transactions. The Prime Minister requested leaders of ministries, branches, localities, and members of the Steering Committee to urgently review and clearly identify bottlenecks that are hindering administrative reform activities, and propose specific solutions to remove them; prioritize immediate resolution of hot, urgent, and pressing issues among the people; step up the review and propose solutions to handle regulations that are contradictory, overlapping, inadequate, and not suitable to reality; continue to reorganize administrative units at district and commune levels in the 2023-2025 period.

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Source: http://baoninhthuan.com.vn/news/148186p24c32/ban-chi-dao-cai-cach-hanh-chinh-cua-chinh-phu-to-chuc-phien-hop-lan-thu-8.htm