The Government's Steering Committee for Administrative Reform deploys tasks for the last two months of the year.

On the afternoon of November 14, the Government 's Steering Committee for Administrative Reform (SCAR) held its sixth meeting to evaluate the results of administrative reform in the first 10 months of 2023 and deploy directions and tasks for the last 2 months of the year.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vu Chi Giang and delegates attending the meeting at Vinh Phuc bridge. Photo: Truong Khanh

The meeting was held in both direct and online formats, connecting from the Government Headquarters to 63 provinces and centrally-run cities.

Comrade Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo member, Prime Minister, Head of the Steering Committee chaired the meeting. Also attending were leaders of ministries, branches and central agencies.

Attending at Vinh Phuc bridge were comrade Vu Chi Giang, Provincial Party Committee member, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of a number of departments, branches and localities.

In recent times, the Government has continued to direct ministries, branches and localities to innovate in administrative reform, specifically in leadership and direction of implementing important tasks and solutions to best serve people and businesses.

In the first 10 months of 2023, the results of handling electronic administrative procedures (TTHC) of ministries and branches reached nearly 27%, localities reached more than 40%; the conversion from paper records to electronic records of ministries reached 82%, localities reached 70%; 100% of ministries, branches and localities completed connecting and synchronizing data with the national database on cadres, civil servants and public employees.

36/63 localities have deployed Smart Operation Centers; 40/63 localities have consulted and issued resolutions of the People's Council on exemption and reduction of fees and charges for online public services, in order to attract people to participate in online public services; 91.2 million demographic information has been cleaned from the national database on insurance and population.

Discussing at the meeting, delegates from ministries, branches and localities went straight to the point, gave brief speeches, focused on analyzing difficulties and barriers and proposed specific and practical directions and solutions to achieve the administrative reform goals in 2023.

Concluding the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh suggested that in the coming time, central and local agencies need to be more determined and more drastic to better implement administrative reform work, in which, promoting the role and responsibility of leaders, considering this as a criterion for evaluating officials.

Speed up the review, arrangement and consolidation of functions, tasks and organizational structures of affiliated agencies and units to meet the criteria prescribed by the Government; strengthen the review and removal of institutional and mechanism barriers to improve the efficiency of public investment disbursement at ministries, branches and localities.

Efforts to implement administrative reform solutions with focus and key points, with people and businesses at the center; review legal documents and administrative procedures at all levels, focusing on related procedures with many obstacles in the fields of land, housing, credit access, tax, etc.

Thu Nhan

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