The Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has praised the Ministry of Industry and Trade for removing hundreds of requirements and permits for businesses. Ministry of Industry and Trade praised for achievements in administrative reform The Ministry of Industry and Trade is the first state agency that has begun to review and remove unnecessary procedures. It has removed 675 out of 1,200 business requirements. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is in the second place after cutting or revising 118 requirements. The Ministry of Industry and Trade has submitted the revised draft laws on investment and enterprises in which it proposed to remove unnecessary and unsuitable requirements in 20 businesses. Phan Duc Hieu, deputy director the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Central Institute for Economic Management, said, “I’ve never seen such positive results from state agencies. I have high regards for the Ministry of Industry and Trade because they acted before being given a quota.” Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has been urging agencies to scrap unnecessary procedures many times in order to create a more favourable environment for businesses. He also questioned why some provincial authorities could effortlessly follow the directives why others still have corruption. He praised the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ministry of Construction for cutting of half or a third of their power. He also warned about the scenario where new cumbersome procedures were created to replace old ones. In March,2014, the government issued Resolution 19 about improving… [Read full story]
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung recently asked eight ministries in the list of "particular concern" to have better administrative reforms. According to the PM's instructions, the Ministry of Planning and Investment must review regulations on business registration, investment license, incentive certificate issuing and such for foreign-invested enterprises.The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment should focus on the procedures of granting land and land-use certificates.The others on the list are the Ministries of Construction, Finance, Health, Education and Training, Justice, and Home Affairs. The mentioned ministries must report the results to the PM before mid-December.... [read more]
At the online meeting to review the administrative reform task in the period 2011-2015 and implementation of new plan for the next period yesterday, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced the 2015 results of the public administration reform index (PAR INDEX 2015), on which the central city of Da Nang and State Bank of Vietnam ranked first with 93.31 per cent and 89.42 percent respectively. The Ministry has released its Public Administration Reform (PAR) Index for 2015 in two categories: Provinces and Ministries.The average index of central cities and provinces is 85.11 percent, 3.9 percent higher than in 2014 and…... [read more]
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked all ministries to make more efforts to step up administrative reforms and create favorable conditions for both locals and enterprises. Deputy PM Phuc made the call during a January 2 meeting with relevant ministries and agencies on the administrative reforms in investment, construction and land. He said that administrative procedures remain complicated and overlapped, and that the "one-stop" mechanism has not been implemented effectively. In addition, some inconsistencies are still seen in a number of laws like the Laws on Investment, Enterprises and Construction, causing difficulties for both businesses and management agencies.…... [read more]
1. The Government issued Decree No. 98/2017/NĐ-CP stipulating the functions, tasks, rights and organisation of the MoIT. On August 18, 2017, the Prime Minister signed Decree No. 98/2017 / ND-CP defining the functions, tasks, authorities and sector structure of the Ministry Industry Trade. The decree was issued to strengthen the organisational apparatus of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The ministry has reduced its number of units (from 35 to 30 units) and 36.5% of its department (72 departments). In addition, the ministry has also planned to organise and arrange its personnel. 2. The MoIT has simplified its administrative procedures…... [read more]
Improving the quality of public healthcare and education services is among the key points of Viet Nam’s newly ratified Public Administration Reform Plan for 2011-20. Ministry of Home Affairs Public Administration Reform Department General Director Dinh Duy Hoa said that in addition to reforming institutions, administrative procedures, finances and the State apparatus, the focal task of service quality would add to the country’s Human Development Index. Accordingly, the country targets satisfying 60 per cent of its citizens via public healthcare and educational services by 2015 and over 80 per cent by 2020. At present, only around 15-20 per cent of…... [read more]
