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Decentralisation must not lead to fragmented responsibility: NA President
Agencies directly managing, assigning and employing personnel must bear primary responsibility for their assessment and performance, while the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee’s advisory bodies should strengthen guidance, supervision and early risk warnings, President of the National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man said.
President of the National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man speaks at the conference in Ho Chi Minh City to adopt a draft report on the third round of inspection and supervision of the municipal Party Committee’s Standing Board__Photo: VNA

Decentralisation must make the apparatus faster in handling work, closer to the people and more effective, but must not lead to fragmented responsibility or create wide disparities in quality among localities, Politburo member and President of the National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man stressed on September 25.

The NA President, who is head of the Inspection and Supervision Team No. 220 of the Party Central Committee’s Politburo and Secretariat, made the statement while chairing a conference in Ho Chi Minh City to adopt a draft report on the third round of inspection and supervision of the municipal Party Committee’s Standing Board.

He requested the municipal Party Committee to move from “having studied, disseminated and issued programmes” to determining “what changes and products have been created and what problems have been solved”. Each resolution, he said, must be accompanied by clear targets, expected products, responsible agencies, resources, timelines, impact indicators and regular evaluation mechanisms, ensuring that resolutions are translated into substantive results and narrowing the gap between political determination and implementation capacity.

President of the National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man speaks at the conference in Ho Chi Minh City to adopt a draft report on the third round of inspection and supervision of the municipal Party Committee’s Standing Board__Photo: VNA

Regarding personnel management and quality, the NA Chairman acknowledged that decentralisation and delegation of authority have enabled grassroots-level agencies to be more proactive in organisational arrangements, personnel deployment and handling of work. However, he noted that some localities still face shortages of advisory personnel and specialised staff in science and technology, data and digital transformation.

He therefore called on the municipal Party Committee’s Standing Board to review the entire decentralisation mechanism based on the principle that authority must be accompanied by the conditions necessary to exercise it. Agencies directly managing, assigning and employing personnel must bear primary responsibility for their assessment and performance, while the municipal Party Committee’s advisory bodies should strengthen guidance, supervision and early risk warnings.- (VNA/VLLF)

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