After VietNamNet published articles about Hanoi’s new personnel strategy, Hanoi Department of Home Affairs’ deputy chief Le Quoc Cuong said on September 25 that the plan will be amended.

The Hanoi Department of Home Affairs’ deputy chief Le Quoc Cuong.

He confirmed that strategy, which was approved by Hanoi’s Chairman Nguyen The Thao on August 24, 2009 and posted on the city’s website two days later, has not gone ahead as a result of a request from the Department of Home Affairs.

Cuong says that the Department of Home Affairs viewed the plan some as containing some “unsuitable points”, in particularly when judged alongside several by-law documents which are being compiled to guide government employees law.

Cuong adds: “Hanoi will reconsider this strategy because this is a long-term plan. Some goals will be changed.”

At present, the Hanoi Party Committee manages around 500 officials, with 8 percent of them holding doctor degrees and 26 percent with master degrees.

“We have had over 30 percent of the officials being masters and doctors so it is completely feasible to have 50 percent of officials being doctors by 2020,” said Cuong.

He adds that all provinces and cities have funding for personal training, which comes from the state budget.

It follows the new personnel strategy introduced recently which saw Hanoi aiming to have all officials managed by the local Party Committee holding PhDs by 2020.

VA