Decentralization of administrative procedures helps people reduce travel time

On the morning of July 31, at the Government headquarters, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang chaired the 5th meeting of the Prime Minister's Administrative Procedure Reform Working Group and the Prime Minister's Administrative Procedure Reform Advisory Council.

Attending the online meeting at the Hai Duong provincial bridge were leaders of the Provincial People's Committee Office, departments, branches and sectors under the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of the People's Committees of districts, towns and cities; leaders and relevant experts of the Hai Duong Provincial Public Administration Service Center.

According to the report at the meeting, in the first 6 months of 2024, the provision of online public services has improved significantly with more than 13.9 million online records made from the National Public Service Portal; more than 7.4 million online payment transactions with an amount of more than 4,620 billion VND. The implementation of decentralization plans has brought about efficiency in handling administrative procedures, helping to reduce levels and intermediaries.

Higher-level agencies reduce administrative work, focus on policy development and planning; reduce the time for people and businesses to travel, submit documents and receive results when administrative procedures are decentralized from the Central to the province, from the province to the district, from the district to the commune.

Regarding the simplification of administrative procedures and citizen papers related to population management, ministries have simplified 247 administrative procedures and citizen papers in 25 legal documents, bringing the total number of administrative procedures and citizen papers simplified from 2022 to present to 828 administrative procedures, reaching 76%.

Seven ministries and agencies have completed 100% of the simplification plan; 10 ministries and agencies have achieved over 50%; 2 ministries have achieved under 50%. There are currently 256 administrative procedures that need to be further simplified in 1 law, 17 decrees, 10 joint circulars and 22 circulars.

At the meeting, Hanoi City proposed amending the Law on Judicial Records and related decrees; building a unified database on judicial records; and continuing to reduce the number of judicial records in some components of the dossier.

Meanwhile, Ho Chi Minh City recommends that ministries and branches pay attention to sharing specialized data; promptly announce administrative procedures that have been decentralized to Ho Chi Minh City; and the Government Office promptly issue a list of administrative procedures to be implemented locally.

Representatives of business associations acknowledged and highly appreciated the Government's efforts in reforming administrative procedures in recent times, helping to significantly reduce time and costs for businesses, especially the implementation of online administrative procedures; hoping that administrative procedure reform will continue to be implemented more substantially to promote growth.

Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang highly appreciated the positive changes in administrative procedure reform in the first half of the year, notably many administrative procedures continued to be cut and simplified. In particular, the provision of online public services improved significantly; receiving and resolving people's opinions received more attention; and decentralization of administrative procedures continued to be promoted.

The Deputy Prime Minister requested that members of the Working Group and the Advisory Council continue to promote their roles and responsibilities, especially in sharing information and proposing solutions to reform administrative procedures so that the Working Group and the Advisory Council can operate more effectively.

Ministries, branches and localities must promote the role and responsibility of leaders; be more determined and coordinate better in administrative procedure reform; and better communicate the results of administrative procedure reform to people and businesses.

Regarding specialized data connection, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized the principle that if localities want to connect with specialized databases of central ministries and branches, the prerequisite is to ensure safety and security...