VietNamNet Bridge - Immediately after the “shocking speech” of the Chairman of the Inspection Commission of the Hanoi Party Committee on December 7 about the “price” of VND100 million ($5,000) for becoming a civil servant, Director of the Hanoi Department of Home Affairs Tran Huy Sang also "revealed," Hanoi plans to recruit civil servants with the regular university diplomas.




At the morning session on December 7 of the Hanoi People's Council, which concentrated on considering and adopting a resolution on Hanoi’s administrative personnel in 2013, Mr. Tran Trong Duc, Chairman of the Hanoi Party Committee’s Inspection Commission spoke frankly about negative aspect of Hanoi’s civil servant recruitment.

Mr. Duc said: "There were candidates whose exam papers are accurately the same, to each full stop and comma, with the answer, earning maximum marks. In some agencies, applicants have to bribe to be in the list of contestants, to pass the exams. It is said that with less than VND100 million, one cannot pass the civil servant recruitment exams. I would like to tell you that the heads of the interior divisions of districts are the ones who receive applicant files and their money... "

Evaluating the ability of civil servants in his agency, Duc said, about 30% of them work well; 35% work fairly well and normally; the remaining are poor.

Earlier, the Family & Society Newspaper reported problems in the civil servant recruitment examination of Hanoi in 2011 (held in February 2012). However, in its written response, the Hanoi Department of Home Affairs stated: "In recent years, Hanoi has always completed the recruitment task well, for other provinces to learn from its experience."

Hanoi’s public servants must have formal university diplomas

Answering questions of deputies of the Hanoi People's Council on the quality and efficiency in the work of Hanoi’s civil servants capital, Director of the Department of Home Affairs Tran Huy Sang said that there are many reasons which are the problems of “history."
According to him, over the years the number of newly-employed civil servants is very small compared to the total number of civil servants working in state agencies of the city. He acknowledged that part of the public servants do not meet work requirements. However, every year the city holds professional and expertise training courses to improve the quality of public servants.

"In addition to the installation of surveillance cameras to monitor the full implementation of the tasks of civil servants at the one-door administrative procedure offices, the Hanoi Information and PR Committee and the Department of Home Affairs will collect opinions of citizens and businesses to be able to specify the place, the staff who does not complete the task," he said.

Sang said the Hanoi authorities plan to train personnel for the future. In 2013 it will open one class with 500 students and another class with the same number of trainees in 2014.

The trainees must graduate from regular courses of state universities. After the course, from 18 to 24 months long, they will be assigned to work at communes and wards. "After five years, they will be a source of quality supplements to replace the retired civil servants," said the Director of the Hanoi Department of Home Affairs.

Compiled by Tran Cham