Speaking at the conference, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said: In the first 6 months of 2023, the Home Affairs sector has made efforts, determination, drastic measures, constantly innovated, created creativity, and been flexible, creating clear changes, with important results, contributing to the common achievements of the country and each locality, enhancing the role and position of the sector in the political and social system.

The Home Affairs sector has also proactively and actively advised, proposed and resolved many new and difficult issues and practical difficulties and shortcomings, especially: Proposing to adjust the basic salary level by 20% for cadres, civil servants, public employees and armed forces; solving the problem of cadres, civil servants and part-time workers at commune, village and residential group levels; on the policy of streamlining the payroll and researching, continuing to perfect the institutional system to meet practical requirements and innovating thinking and methods of state management in a number of fields to meet changes and development trends.

Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra speaks at the conference.

The Ministry has also made efforts to promote digital transformation with a proactive and determined spirit and has especially completed the construction of the National Database on cadres, civil servants and public employees in the entire system. To date, 1,974,488/2,030,095 records have been synchronized (reaching 96.28%).

Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra also frankly pointed out a number of difficulties, obstacles, shortcomings, limitations, and inadequacies, such as: The work of building institutions, multi-faceted policy mechanisms has not met the requirements of innovation of the industry and the reality. The situation of cadres and civil servants avoiding, pushing, lacking responsibility, afraid of making mistakes, not daring to do. The streamlining of staff, restructuring of the team with job positions and improving the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees is still difficult, limited and confusing...

To complete the 2023 tasks, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra suggested that in the coming time, the entire Home Affairs sector should focus on perfecting the institutional and policy system in the 2023 Plan and proactively implement decrees, circulars, and laws issued in all fields of the sector.

Timely institutionalize the Party's policies to remove difficulties and shortcomings in practice and innovate and develop in a number of areas of the Industry, especially in the fields of: Management of civil servants and public employees, organization - payroll, emulation - rewards...

Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra awarded Certificates of Merit to collectives and individuals of the Ministry with outstanding achievements.

Continuing to reorganize the apparatus in conjunction with streamlining the payroll and reducing civil servants receiving salaries from the state budget, this is a hot and urgent issue. Advise to ensure that by 2026, the reduction of 5% of civil servant payroll and 10% of civil servant payroll receiving salaries from the state budget will be completed. At the same time, improve the quality of civil servant and public employee recruitment according to payroll quotas and focus on training and fostering cadres, civil servants and public employees.

Stick to the locality to avoid complicated issues related to religion and belief in the current situation. The Ministry of Home Affairs will issue a directive on this issue to strengthen state management of religion and belief in the locality to proactively prevent problems from arising and becoming complicated.

Promote digital transformation in the whole industry, do it well, do it thoroughly to truly take digital transformation as the driving force for change, take digital transformation as the goal to contribute significantly to promoting National Digital Transformation, building digital government, digital authority, digital society, digital economy.

Within the framework of the conference, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra awarded certificates of merit to collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in updating, connecting and synchronizing data with the National Database on cadres, civil servants and public employees in state administrative agencies in phase 1.

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