The facility is confused about budgeting.
It is expected that at the upcoming 22nd Session, the Provincial People's Committee will submit to the Provincial People's Council a draft resolution on targeted support for districts, towns, and cities to reorganize administrative units (ADUs) at district and commune levels in the province for the period 2023 - 2025.
This is one of the policies that the province has been considering issuing to facilitate the implementation of the policy of arranging administrative units at district and commune levels in the province to ensure compliance with the set roadmap and regulations.
More specifically, the most interested content and the starting point for considering the issuance of related policies of the province, when the Provincial People's Council issued Resolution No. 37 on December 29, 2023 on regulations on policies to support the streamlining of redundant staff due to the arrangement of administrative units.
Recorded from practice through working sessions with the provincial level on the progress of implementing the task of arranging administrative units, relevant localities all recommended that specialized agencies advise the Provincial People's Committee to provide specific instructions on preparing budget estimates for easy implementation.
Mr. Nguyen Dinh Hong - Head of the Department of Internal Affairs of Thang Binh district said that the current problem is the budget preparation in the implementation of the task of arranging administrative units.
The People's Committee of Thang Binh district assigned the finance and home affairs sectors to coordinate in making this budget estimate and follow the Central Government's document, which is Resolution No. 35 dated July 12, 2023 of the National Assembly Standing Committee, and the Ministry of Finance has Instruction No. 8006 dated July 31, 2023.
"However, the province has not yet had any guidelines on expenditure norms, so making this budget is difficult and confusing, not knowing which document to base it on," said Mr. Hong.
As the only locality in the province that has just implemented the arrangement of administrative units at the district and commune levels in the period of 2023 - 2025, the issue of funding for this task is of great concern to the People's Committee of Nong Son district. Accordingly, the regulations in current documents on this content are still very general, the locality does not have a specific basis for organizing the preparation of budget estimates, and must wait for instructions from the province.
According to Mr. Tran Phuong - Deputy Head of Nong Son Home Affairs Department, Resolution No. 35 dated July 12, 2023 of the National Assembly Standing Committee, as well as related documents, only state that the cost of implementing the arrangement of administrative units is spent from the state budget. As for the work and spending content, the spending level is still not available.
“Arranging administrative units at district and commune levels is an important political task, but up to now there has been no unified document from the Department of Finance and the Department of Home Affairs, leading to difficulties in making budget estimates for implementation. Commune and district leaders have asked but we have no basis for answering,” Mr. Phuong shared.
Need specific instructions
According to the plan approved by the Ministry of Home Affairs, in the period of 2023 - 2025, Quang Nam plans to reorganize 2 district-level administrative units (Nong Son and Que Son districts) and 16 commune-level administrative units.
Analyzing the relevant legal bases and recording feedback from the grassroots practice, the Department of Home Affairs - the Standing Agency of the Steering Committee for the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels of the province, said that the guidance of the Ministry of Finance in the documents is not specific, so localities are confused in allocating funds to implement the project.
Regarding this issue, according to the Department of Finance, through review, the expenditure tasks to implement the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels have been specifically regulated by the Provincial People's Council in terms of standards and expenditure norms (Resolutions No. 20/2017 and Resolution No. 42/2022 of the Provincial People's Council).
Therefore, the Provincial People's Committee does not submit to the Provincial People's Council regulations on expenditure content and expenditure levels, but applies them according to the current regulations mentioned above. In particular, the support level for district- and commune-level administrative units implementing reorganization in the province has not been regulated by the Provincial People's Council.
According to the draft resolution developed by the Provincial People's Committee to solicit comments before submitting it to the Provincial People's Council at the upcoming 22nd Session, Quang Nam is a province that balances its own budget, and the central budget does not support the task of arranging administrative units at district and commune levels.
Based on the ability to balance the provincial budget, the Provincial People's Committee proposed a support level of 1 billion VND for each district-level administrative unit and 200 million VND/commune-level administrative unit subject to rearrangement.
The Provincial People's Committee estimates that the total support budget for district and commune-level administrative units subject to restructuring in the 2023-2025 period is at least VND5.2 billion. According to the explanation of the Department of Finance, this support content is in the direction of supplementing regular expenditures for localities.
Ms. Tran Thi Kim Hoa - Director of the Department of Home Affairs said that the draft report assigned by the Department of Finance to the Provincial People's Committee for consultation and drafting did not clearly stipulate the content and level of expenditure.
After recording opinions from localities, the Department of Home Affairs will advise the Provincial People's Committee to issue a document directing the Department of Finance to provide more specific instructions on expenditure contents and expenditure levels, so that when the Provincial People's Council approves, implementation will not be confusing.
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