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General Ngo Xuan Lich (second from right) congratulated three new Vice Ministers of National Defense in July 2020.
The Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Defense currently have 9 vice ministers, 3 more than those specified in the Government Organization Law.
The Government of Vietnam has just reported on the implementation of the National Assembly resolutions on the reform of the streamlined state administrative apparatus, effective and efficient operation. Consequently, the National Assembly assessed that the management of staffing in many ministries, branches and localities was not strict; The structure of public officials is not reasonable, the number of deputies in some units exceeds the norm.
Public opinion said that the Vietnamese government apparatus is the most cumbersome and comparable to other countries like Japan.
In accordance with the provisions of the Government Organization Law of 2015, the number of deputy ministers and deputy heads of ministerial-level agencies should not exceed 5; The Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs alone do not exceed 6.
The results of the implementation show that there are still a number of ministries that exceed the required number of deputies. In which, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Public Security are two ministries with 9 vice ministers, 3 above the regulations.
The Ministry of the Interior together with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development also exceeded 1 person.
In contrast, the Ministry of Planning and Investments and the Ministry of Information and Communications are two ministries with only 3 vice ministers, 2 less than required.
There are 7 ministries, the ministerial level agencies have 4 vice ministers and equivalents, that is, less than 1 compared to the regulation, including the Ministry of Construction; Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs; Ministry of Health; Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Ministry of Education and Training; The Bank of Vietnam; and Committee on Ethnic Minorities.
There are 8 ministries, ministerial level agencies have 5 vice ministers and equivalents (equal to the prescribed number), which include: Ministry of Finance; Judicial; Minister of Industry and Commerce; Science and Technology; Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment; Transport; Government office; and government inspector.
Thanh Nien newspaper reported, the number of deputy ministers more than in some ministries “mainly due to organizational structure and staff work requirements, such as implementation of the rotation policy, transfer of personnel. Leaders from local to central ”.
The cumbersome government apparatus has been a problem for many years and newly released figures show that efforts to “cut payroll” have not made much progress.
Public opinion has long argued that the Vietnamese government apparatus is cumbersome and ineffective.
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On his personal Facebook page, foreign Vietnamese writer Tran Quoc Quan wrote: “While the prime minister has always called for administrative reform, the central administrative apparatus is by no means exemplary.” In other countries, the prime minister does not have or only has a deputy prime minister attending, our prime minister has 4-5 deputy prime ministers, while most countries have only 10-13 ministers, our country has to. 22 ministers.
While in most countries each minister has only one assistant minister, our country each minister has up to 4-6 assistant ministers.
It can be said that our country’s government apparatus is the most cumbersome and our government officials are the slowest in the world. It is not unfair! “
Last month, when Japan’s new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga established a cabinet with just 13 ministers, many Vietnamese netizens once again compared the size of the two economies and the size of the government apparatus. Many criticisms of the cumbersome management apparatus resurfaced.
On her personal Facebook page, Ms. Nguyen Thi Bich Hau, an author with many books on education, wrote: “A country like ours has 22 ministries, that is, there are 22 ministers out of 90 million people and GDP. capita is USD 2,740 per year. Japan has 13 ministries, but only 12 grandparents and ministers and they have a lot of responsibility in various fields. Japan has 126 million inhabitants and the GDP per capita is USD 41,000 per year. and a deputy prime minister must to be Minister of Finance at the same time. Efficient or not self-understanding. ”
According to official statistics, Vietnam currently has 110 deputy ministers, deputy directors of ministerial-level agencies, of which 4 ministries exceed the number of deputies compared to regulations; There are 201 vice presidents of the Provincial People’s Committee.
