Expected reduction of 368 specialized agencies under the Provincial People's Committee

The Ministry of Home Affairs will apply KPI to evaluate, measure, and classify civil servants, public employees, and workers.

The Ministry of Home Affairs' information portal said that on the afternoon of July 8, the Ministry of Home Affairs held a conference to review the work of June and the first 6 months of 2025, and deploy tasks for the last 6 months of 2025. Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra chaired the conference.

In her opening remarks, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra requested to change the meeting method towards a general assessment and synthesis of the results of the Ministry's tasks in the first 6 months of the year to discuss and approve the general conclusion on the Ministry's tasks in the last 6 months of the year and the specific tasks of each unit under the Ministry.

Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra chaired the Conference. (Photo: MOHA)

In addition, based on the Resolution, Conclusion of the Central Committee, Resolution of the Government , the work program of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the plan of the Steering Committees, the Minister will assign specific tasks, clearly define the products and results of the work of the last 6 months of the year to the units under the Ministry and simultaneously deploy, supplement with new tasks assigned by competent authorities. When receiving tasks assigned by the Minister, the units also need to continue to assign to each civil servant, public employee and employee of the unit.

According to Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra, this will be the basis for evaluating and classifying units as well as heads and deputies of heads of units. Applying KPI to evaluate, measure, classify and screen civil servants, public employees and workers of the unit in a general spirit and will conduct KPI evaluation monthly, quarterly, in the last 6 months of the year and for the whole year 2025.

Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra emphasized: "Currently, under the direction of the Politburo , the Ministry of Home Affairs is advising on the implementation of a number of major issues of the Law on Cadres, Civil Servants and the Law on Public Employees, focusing on the basic and important issues of using and evaluating according to the principle of "in, out, up, down" for cadres, civil servants and public employees."

Expected to reduce more than 44% of specialized agencies under the Provincial People's Committee

At the conference, regarding the results of work in June and the first 6 months of the year, Chief of the Ministry's Office Vu Xuan Han said that in institutional work, the Ministry of Home Affairs submitted 6 documents and projects to the Politburo, the Secretariat, and the Central Executive Committee; advised the National Assembly to pass 5 laws and issue 6 resolutions; submitted 39 resolutions to the National Assembly Standing Committee to pass; submitted 20 decrees and 14 resolutions to the Government; submitted 61 decisions to the Prime Minister; and the Minister issued 20 circulars under his authority.

In June 2025 alone, the month with the largest number of completed institutional and policy tasks since the beginning of the year, the Ministry submitted 15 decrees to the Government for promulgation; the Minister issued 6 circulars.

The Ministry of Home Affairs also focused on advising competent authorities to complete many tasks on implementing Resolution No. 18 of the Central Committee related to the arrangement and consolidation of the organizational apparatus of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies under the Government as a basis for promulgating the new organizational structure of the Government and implementing the comprehensive arrangement of administrative units at all levels. Accordingly, up to now, the Ministry's advisory work on the arrangement of the organizational apparatus of ministries, branches and the arrangement of administrative units at all levels has been recognized and highly appreciated by competent authorities.

In addition, the Ministry has also proactively and actively advised the Government to implement decentralization and delegation of powers associated with the implementation of the 2-level local government model, focusing on urging ministries and ministerial-level agencies to submit to the Government 28 decrees and promulgate under their authority 57 circulars on decentralization, delegation of powers, and division of powers between the Central and local governments at all levels. Ministries and ministerial-level agencies have issued decisions to promulgate administrative procedures ensuring clear file components and forms so as not to affect the provision of public services and the application of administrative procedures to people and businesses.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has continued to pay attention to, review, guide and urge ministries, branches and localities to implement policies and regimes for cadres, civil servants and public employees who have quit their jobs due to reorganization and streamlining of staff, including proactively and regularly updating the number of cadres, civil servants and public employees who have quit their jobs due to reorganization.

The Ministry of Home Affairs also coordinated with the Ministry of Finance to allocate the budget, provide additional funding, and guide localities, agencies, and units to promptly pay benefits to officials, civil servants, and public employees who quit their jobs due to reorganization according to Decree No. 178 and Decree No. 67. This agency also advised competent authorities to issue many documents and instructions to ensure the stable and effective operation of the two-level local government.

As a result, the organizational structure of the 15th Government has been streamlined to 14 ministries and 3 ministerial-level agencies (a reduction of 5 ministries and ministerial-level agencies, a reduction of 22.7%); and 5 government agencies (a reduction of 3 government agencies, a reduction of 37.5%).

Regarding the organization within ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies, 13/13 general departments and equivalent organizations will be reduced (equivalent to a 100% reduction); 509 departments and equivalent organizations will be reduced (equivalent to a 76.2% reduction); 232 departments and equivalent organizations will be reduced (equivalent to a 57.4% reduction); 3,377 branches and equivalent branches will be reduced (equivalent to a 93.8% reduction); 205 public service units will be reduced (of which 81/204 public service units will be reduced in the organizational structure in the Government's Decree, equating to a 39.7% reduction); and about 22,300 staff positions in ministries and branches will be reduced.

When implementing the two-level local government organization model from July 1, 2025, localities are expected to reduce 368 specialized agencies under the Provincial People's Committee (equivalent to a reduction of 44.3%); reduce 100% of specialized agencies under the District People's Committee and establish departments under the Commune People's Committee according to regulations.

In particular, the Ministry has developed a Handbook for Commune-level Local Government to guide localities in implementing it from July 1, 2025. This is an important source of documents serving the training, fostering, and professional guidance for commune-level officials and civil servants; established a Ministry hotline to proactively receive feedback and promptly answer difficult and problematic issues, and provide guidance and create conditions for localities to implement the 2-level local government organization model.

There will be a thematic conference on the arrangement of administrative units and two-level local government.

To continue completing the key tasks of the Ministry and branches in the last 6 months of 2025, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra requested that the units under the Ministry focus and prepare to organize a thematic conference on the arrangement of administrative units, 2-level local authorities and decentralization of the Ministry and branches to resolve difficulties and problems related to operations and administrative procedures for localities.

It is expected that the Conference participants will include Directors of Departments of Home Affairs and will be held before July 17, 2025.

According to the Minister, this is the first conference after officially implementing the arrangement of administrative units and local authorities at two levels to resolve difficulties and problems, while at the same time thoroughly grasping tasks and providing good advice to the Provincial People's Committees on all aspects of work in the last 6 months of the year in the home affairs sector.

Regarding issues related to the operation of two-level local government, according to Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra, this is a major political task of the entire Ministry, which needs to be closely followed and monitored to promptly detect difficulties and problems during operation. The Minister assigned the Department of Local Government to closely follow localities, promptly assess and report difficulties and problems during operation so that the Ministry can report to competent authorities with weekly figures.

Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra also paid attention to the work of synthesizing, reviewing, and adjusting basic salary levels, adjusting position and title allowances for commune level, regional allowances, and specific allowances when implementing the arrangement of 2-level local governments, requiring ensuring balance and reasonableness when adjusting.

According to NDO

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