Nearly 130,000 civil servants quit their jobs, Prime Minister directs to arrange enough funds to pay

On the morning of May 9, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a Government meeting on restructuring the apparatus, reorganizing administrative units at all levels and building a two-level local government organization model.

According to the report, all localities have focused on accelerating the progress and completing the public consultation with an average consensus rate of nearly 96%. The People's Councils at the provincial, district and communal levels nationwide have issued resolutions approving the Projects with a majority consensus rate of 100%.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested to arrange funding to pay for officials and civil servants who quit their jobs after reorganization "as soon as possible".

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By May 8, all documents and projects had been completed to advise the Government to submit to the National Assembly Standing Committee for consideration and decision on the arrangement of administrative units of 63 provinces and cities (belonging to 34 new provinces and cities).

At the same time, complete the dossier of the Project on rearranging provincial-level administrative units to submit to the National Assembly for consideration and decision. Accordingly, after the rearrangement, it is expected that the whole country will have 34 provinces and centrally-run cities, 3,321 commune-level administrative units, a corresponding reduction of 29 provincial-level administrative units and 6,714 commune-level administrative units.

It is expected that after the reorganization, the number of provincial-level cadres, civil servants and public employees will be about 91,784 people, a decrease of 18,449 people; the number of communal-level cadres and civil servants will be about 199,000 people, a decrease of about 110,000 people. The number of non-professional workers at the communal level nationwide will end at more than 120,000 people.

The Steering Committee's report also estimates the budget for salary savings and administrative expenditure norms in the period from 2026 to 2030 nationwide thanks to the arrangement of administrative units at all levels and the organization of two-level local governments; expected payment of regimes and policies for retired subjects; social insurance payment budget for cases of early retirement without deduction of pension rate.

Concluding the meeting, the Prime Minister said the number of provincial-level administrative units is expected to decrease from 63 to 34; the number of commune-level administrative units from 10,035 to 3,321, a decrease of 66.91%; and there will be no district-level administrative units.

Agencies have developed policies for officials and civil servants affected by the process of restructuring local administrative apparatus and units.

The Prime Minister requested to urgently complete the dossier on the arrangement of two-level administrative units to submit to the National Assembly for consideration and approval.

In particular, the head of the Government assigned the Ministry of Finance to arrange sufficient funds to pay for those who request leave under the regime and are redundant in the process of restructuring the apparatus of the political system and local administrative units. Guide the advance payment of funds by ministries, branches and localities to pay "as soon as possible", to avoid congestion; arrange assets and facilities in the process of restructuring administrative units.

The Prime Minister noted that, along with arranging and organizing administrative units at all levels and building a two-level local government organization model, ministries, branches and localities must focus on implementing other important tasks.

Striving to achieve the economic growth target of 8% or more in 2025; removing difficulties and obstacles in more than 2,200 projects nationwide with a total capital of nearly 6 million billion VND and more than 300,000 hectares of land that are stuck.

Thanhnien.vn

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