HCMC increases 83 Vice Chairmen of Ward and Commune People's Committees

The Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee has just issued a conclusion on the framework for the number of Vice Chairmen of Commune People's Committees and the number of deputy heads of specialized departments, equivalent units and Public Administration Service Centers under Commune People's Committees.

Accordingly, the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee agreed on the policy of increasing 1 Vice Chairman of the Commune People's Committee according to Conclusion No. 187-KL/TW of the Politburo and the Secretariat for qualified administrative units and criteria.

The criteria include: Wards and communes with a population of 50,000 or more; wards with a natural area of 5.5 km2 or more, communes with 30 km2 or more or key areas with complexities in social order and safety.

Based on these criteria, the whole Ho Chi Minh City has 83 commune-level administrative units with an additional Vice Chairman of the People's Committee.

The Standing Committee of the City Party Committee also agreed on the policy of specialized departments and equivalents, the Public Administration Service Center under the People's Committee at the commune level is arranged with an average of 2 deputy levels according to regulations.

The Standing Committee of the City Party Committee also agreed on the policy of specialized departments and equivalents, the Public Administration Service Center under the People's Committee at the commune level is arranged with an average of 2 deputy levels according to regulations.

The Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee assigned the Standing Committee of the City People's Committee Party Committee to lead and organize the implementation of the conclusions; at the same time, review and develop a roadmap to reduce the number of deputy heads at agencies that are being arranged in excess of regulations.

Commune-level People's Committees are instructed to stop the model of Vice Chairman of the People's Committee concurrently holding the position of Director of the Public Administration Service Center.

According to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, based on the temporary orientation on staffing when arranging administrative units and organizing local governments at two levels, each commune-level government is currently arranged with about 32 staffing positions.

For commune-level administrative units with a population of over 16,000 people, mountainous and highland communes and wards, for every increase in 1,000 people, 1 more civil servant will be assigned. For communes, wards and special zones in other regions, for every increase of 2,000 people, 1 civil servant is assigned, but not exceeding 50 positions for communes and 70 positions for wards and special zones.

However, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee assessed that this standard does not meet practical requirements in many wards and communes with large populations, many industrial parks, production and business establishments, and large workloads.

Currently, each commune-level professional department is only assigned 1 Department Head and 1 Deputy Department Head; the Public Administration Service Center is headed by the Vice Chairman of the Commune People's Committee concurrently holding the position of Director, along with 1 Deputy Director. On average, each professional department has about 5 - 7 civil servants.

With this structure, each civil servant must averagely be in charge of 4 to 9 groups of tasks, each group includes many detailed work contents, large volumes, creating great pressure on the team of civil servants at the grassroots level.

The increase of Vice Chairmen of the People's Committees in qualified wards and communes is expected to contribute to sharing the workload, improving operational efficiency, and better meeting the requirements of state management in the context of special urban areas such as Ho Chi Minh City.

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