Video: The spacious new headquarters of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Government Inspector.
On May 23, at the 5th session of the 5th National Assembly, examining the Government's report on thrift practice and anti-waste in 2022, Mr. Le Quang Manh - Chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee, identified 11 groups of limitations in thrift practice and waste prevention. In particular, the verifying agency emphasized that there was still waste in the management and use of working equipment, housing, and public property.
The Finance and Budget Committee clearly states that a number of ministries, branches and central agencies have been allocated a new office but did not hand over the old facility to the local management, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Government Inspector.
Notes of the messenger, ministries, branches and central agencies, although they have a new and spacious headquarters, they have not yet handed over to Hanoi for exploitation and use.
The new headquarters of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has 18 floors and 1 basement located on Ton That Tuyet Street (Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi), designed to meet working standards for 1.234 people.
This project is built on an area of over 13.800m2. The total cost of the project is 372 billion VND and was put into use in 2011.
Despite moving and working to the new headquarters, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment still uses the old office on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street (Dong Da District), has not yet handed over to Hanoi City for exploitation and use.
The new headquarters of the Government Inspectorate is located at Lot D29, Cau Giay New Urban Area (Hanoi City) with a total investment of 215 billion VND.
The headquarters has been completed and put into use since December 12.
However, the old headquarters of the Government Inspectorate at 220 Doi Can (Ba Dinh district) with an area of about 7.016,68m2 was approved to build a complex of mixed works including a 17-storey building that has not yet been handed over to Hanoi for exploitation and use.
The new headquarters of the Ministry of Science and Technology is a 13-storey building, built on a land with a total area of 1,8 hectares.
The project started to be implemented in the 2000s, by the end of 2011 this work was completed and put into use. Total investment for the project is about 300 billion VND.
However, up to now, the old headquarters of the Ministry of Science and Technology at 39 Tran Hung Dao (Hoan Kiem district) has not been returned.
The new headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was built on Le Quang Dao Street (Nam Tu Liem District) invested by the Project Management Board - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, approved in July 7 with a total capital of 2009 billion VND, then adjusted to increase capital to 3.484 billion VND.
However, right in the first phase of building the headquarters, the Project Management Board - Ministry of Foreign Affairs approved the estimate of bidding packages with a total value of up to 1 billion VND, far exceeding the total approved investment. This leads to the total value of signing construction contracts in phase 5.952,7 up to VND 1 billion, exceeding the total investment of VND 4.688,9 billion.
Up to now, the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is still unfinished because of the capital team.
The old headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is located in the "golden" position on Ton That Dam street (Ba Dinh district).
Of the ministries and branches that have invested in building a new headquarters, only the Ministry of Home Affairs has handed over the old headquarters to the competent authority for management. Accordingly, the Ministry of Finance has decided to withdraw 4 establishments of the Ministry of Home Affairs to arrange for other agencies to manage and use as working offices.
The new headquarters of the Ministry of Home Affairs was inaugurated in 2010 at Ton That Tuyet Street (Nam Tu Liem District) including a 17-storey, 2-storey multi-purpose hall with modern equipment.
