The provincial Party Executive Committee’s 15th meeting (Session VIII): enhance and improve the efficiency of administrative reforms

Secretary of the provincial Party Committee – Tran Dinh Thanh – made a conclusive speech at the meeting

    A brief draft report on how administrative reforms have been carried out and how the state machinery’s management efficiency in the province has been improved was presented at the meeting. The province’s administrative reforms have been implemented widely and have achieved   a lot of positive results contributing to improving the operational efficiency of the state administrative machinery and making real and step-by-step changes to the relationship between administrative organs and public – businesses… Aministrative reforms are considered as a central task and a breakthrough to facilitate production, business, investment and economic growth. Administrative procedures need reviewing regularly, which form a basis for simplifying, publicizing administrative procedures and removing complicated and improper procedures. Up to now, the whole province’s 470 administrative procedures have been reviewed. 59 procedures have been removed and amended and amendments to 36 procedures have been proposed. 88 procedures’ waiting time has been reduced… One-and-connection door policy which has many measures to bring good conditions to public and businesses has been introduced. Particularly – until late December, 2008 – one door policy was implemented at 18 out of 20 units under departments, 11 out of 11 districts and 171 out of 171 communes and 256 uniform procedures have been applied across the province. Administrative procedures, processes, time to wait for documents to be processed and costs are made known to public by the units either at their offices or where documents are received and results are declared… In addtion, state administrative reform units and organs keep strengthening themselves by forming a team of staffs and civil servants, reforming public finance and modernizing state administration. However, the report showed that, in the survey and public opinion poll of administrative reforms, public satisfaction level was not high, only 50% to 60%. One-door-connection policy hasn’t been implemented effectively and the quality is not high. The major cause is that administrative reforms get involved in many sectors and levels. Simultaneously, mechanisms and policies conflict and overflap and complicated procedures cause difficulties for public and businesses. Awareness of administrative reforms of part of staffs and civil servants is not deep enough so there is a lack of from-central-to-local uniformity in the process of implementation. The report has produced six radical solutions to administrative reforms.

The meeting

    At the meeting, on the basis of considering the implementation of the Resolution no. 17/NQ – TW of the 5th meeting of the Central Party Executive Committee (Session X) and the plan 51 – KH/TU of the provincial Party Executive Committee on accelerating administrative reforms, improving the efficiency of the state management machinery, delegates focused on discussing the contents of the report and especially emphasized limits, weaknesses, difficulities and obstacles to produce solutions to reforming administrative and land ownership licensing procedures, investment, assessing projects and levels and sectors’ responsibility in the process of implementing one-door-connection policy… Most of delegates were in agreement with the contents of the report on evaluating administrative reforms and produced a lot of concrete solutions. To increase the efficiency of administrative reforms, it is necessary to raise the quality of staffs and civil servants, apply information technology to administrative reforms and enhance inspection, examination, and cross-check at units and departments to timely discover and correct mistakes …

    Secretary of the provincial Party Committee – Tran Dinh Thanh – made a conclusive speech at the meeting, considered the ideas of the delegates who attended the meeting and allocated some coming tasks. Among the tasks were to raise the executive awareness, realize and consider administrative reforms as an important task – review, systematize documents, timely put forward proposals and remove inappropriate regulations – accelerate administrative reforms according to one-door-connection policy, publicize the processes of investment and tender, land procedures and permit issuing – publicize state organs’ activities, reduce harassment at higher-level administrative organs and establish a synchronous, quick and convenient connection;  enhance administrative reform inspection and observation… The Secretary said that humans played a decisive role in administrative reforms and it was urgent to train staffs and civil servants and improve their quality in a professional and modern way – lay down open criteria and conduct public opinion polls so that the units and sectors which do not perform their tasks successfully will have to bear the blame and establish a policy on protecting those who make complaints of staffs and civil servants’ harassment and imperious attitudes two ensure two-way information source – invest in essential facilities to serve administrative reforms.

(Reported by Nguyen Le, Translated by Duy Minh)