Mr. Hoang Hai Van, Director of the Organization and Personnel Department of the Ministry of Construction, shared at the Conference on Summing up the Year 2024 and Directions, Key Tasks, and Solutions for 2025, held on December 14, on the integration of the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Transport.
According to Mr. Hoang Hai Van, following the directive on streamlining and reorganizing the government, the Ministry of Construction has been working intensively with the Ministry of Transport over the past two weeks to develop a proposal for the integration of the two ministries.
The proposal for integration is built on the principle of treating the two ministries as one, without distinguishing between “us” and “them.” This approach involves an honest assessment of overlapping functions and tasks and those that are interconnected. As a result, bold and innovative proposals are put forward to restructure, merge, or dissolve units from both ministries, aiming for a more streamlined and scientific structure that enhances operational efficiency and effectiveness.
The Ministry of Construction was established in 1958 and has been in operation for over 65 years. On the other hand, the Ministry of Transport has an even longer history, dating back to 1945, making it nearly 80 years old.
The names “Ministry of Construction” and “Ministry of Transport” have a long history and have been appropriate for the stages when each ministry’s state management functions were formed and evolved. The proposed name for the integrated ministry is the “Ministry of Construction and Transport.”
Before the integration, the two ministries had a total of 42 units, with 19 units in the Ministry of Construction and 23 units in the Ministry of Transport. It is expected that after the reorganization and integration, the number of units will be reduced to 25-27, equivalent to a decrease of 35-40% in the total number of units. This includes 6 units in the advisory and administrative block, 14-16 units in the specialized block, and 5 units in the public service block.
Regarding the internal restructuring of the Ministry of Construction, after 7 years of implementing Resolution 18, the ministry now has 15 administrative units, having dissolved 2 administrative units; the number of division-level units has been reduced from 57 to 41 (a decrease of 19.3%).
In 2019, the Ministry of Construction merged the Administrative and Archives Office under the Ministry’s Office into the Administrative – Archives Office. They also reduced the number of division-level units in the Department of Housing and Real Estate Market Management from 9 to 6 and removed all divisions within the Departments (completely removing divisions from the Planning and Finance Department and the Organization and Personnel Department).
The Ministry of Construction has transferred the management of 14 units to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs and local authorities. The Construction Hospital is now under the management of Hanoi National University. The Viet Tri Construction Hospital and two Rehabilitation and Recuperation Centers are managed by local authorities. The Ministry has also completed the merger of the Southern Institute of Urban and Rural Planning into the National Institute of Urban and Rural Planning. Currently, the Ministry of Construction has 18 public service units under its management.