Ministry asked to speed up administrative reform

Standing Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh urged the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to accelerate administrative reform, focusing on institutional development and ensuring a uniform institutional system to meet State management requirements in the fields that it is responsible for.
Ministry asked to speed up administrative reform ảnh 1At the meeting (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA)- Standing Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh urged the Ministry ofIndustry and Trade (MoIT) to accelerate administrative reform,focusing on institutional development and ensuring a uniform institutional system tomeet State management requirements in the fields that it is responsible for.

Speaking at a meeting to review the implementation of the State administrativereform programme at the ministry in the 2011-2020 period on August 6,Binh ordered the ministry to promote the reform of public services, wellimplement the building of the structure of civil servants and public employees inaccordance with working positions.

Attention should be paid to completing the development of job description,build the working capacity framework as a basis for recruiting, employing andmanaging officials and public employees, he stressed.

Minister Tran Tuan Anh said the MoIT is one of theleading ministries in building and implementing plans to simplify and cutadministrative procedures, business and investment conditions, and reform specialized inspection.

The ministry’s administrative reform in the period of2011-2020 closely followed the set plans, while legal documents have been builtand promulgated in the spirit of thorough adherence to the Government'sresolutions and guidelines.

It also made remarkable achievements in simplifying administrativeprocedures, developing e-government, applying information technology in administrativemanagement, he said, adding that those have contributed to improving Vietnam’s Doing Business Ranking by theWorld Bank.

According to the minister, the MoIT is also leading in information technology application and speeding up the buildingof e-government and e-ministry. It has issued many policies, programmes, andplans to apply IT and achieved positive results.

By June 2020, all 295 centraladministrative procedures under the management of the ministry have been implementedvia online public service platforms at level 2 and above; while 129 outof 206 online public services have been integrated with the National Public ServicePortal.

The ministry has seriously conducted the impact assessment of regulations on administrativeprocedures and administrative procedure simplification annually in line with a clearroadmap./. 
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