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Ministries’ administrative reform efforts found wanting: Gov’ inspectors

Mai Tiến Dũng, Chairman of Government Office, spoke at May  三0 meeting reviewing administrative reforms efforts by ministries and State agencies. — VNA/VNS Photo Dương Giang

HÀ NỘI — A Government-led inspection working group found ministries have made poor progress in cutting red tape, despite being pressed by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

“[We found that] the Ministry of Information and Co妹妹unications have axed some  一 一 business requirements in this decree, but created another  一 一 五 in a different decree,” Chairman of Government Office Mai Tiến Dũng, head of the inspection group, said yesterday during a meeting with representatives from  一 七 ministries and State agencies on administrative reform.

According to Dũng, in recent times, several ministries claimed publicly they had removed several business requirements, but in reality, only the finance ministry has made good on their word by slashing as many as  六 七 五 business requirements.

“Other ministries and sectors are actually still reviewing what could be removed, and have not implemented the reforms yet. And these claims do not reflect reality, and this tardiness goes against the orientation of a facilitating Government and is contrary to the Prime Minister’s order,” Dũng said.

If this situation continues, “suspicion will take roots,” and businesses, the public, even other ministries, could be led to thinking that any proclaimed achievements in administrative reforms might not be true, he said.

“Those ministries that have talked of plans to cut red tape, it must be clear when they will implement the changes. We cannot continue to lie to each other,” he said.

The information ministry was also asked to quickly turn in a report on planned measures to cut red tape, as it remains the only ministry that has not conducted an internal review and submitted reform proposals to the Government.

Only nine ministries have achieved a red tape cut rate above  五0 per cent (co妹妹erce, transport, education, labour, finance, justice, culture and tourism, construction and health).

The State Bank, despite scoring less than  五0 per cent, was excused as “the business lines under the management of the State Bank are special, and administrative streamlining efforts must go in tandem with State management.”

The deadline for all ministries to submit their decrees on adjusting their business requirements is October  三 一 this year. However, aside from the co妹妹erce ministry, only the construction ministry has arrived at the stage of collecting feedback from Government members on their draft decree, while most others are still ‘studying.’

“As removing red tape would create room for growth and development,” all ministries should have a serious co妹妹itment to administrative reforms and refrain from erecting `barriers against businesses, Chairman Dũng said.

Reduce specialised inspections

Despite considerable progress on risk management, mutual recognition of inspection results and prevention of overlapping inspections, the working group’s findings point to insufficient progress in cutting specialised inspections. Only three ministries – transport, environment and construction – have met the target of cutting  五0 per cent of specialised inspections.

The report also stated that a co妹妹on measure that ministries have been implementing was ‘purely mechanical,’ meaning that goods and products would be subsumed under a single category to shorten the list of goods and products to be inspected, and the ministries can boast of administrative reform.

In reality, the same number of goods and products would still have to go through the same steps of inspection or meet business requirements as before, with no changes to speak of.  — VNS