Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has urged for stronger administrative reforms in order to realise the Government commitments to promoting democracy and transparency.

Hung hailed the Prime Minister’s taskforce on administrative reforms at a meeting in Hanoi on February 19 for establishing a national database on administrative procedures to contribute to turning Vietnam into one of 10 nations taking the lead in administrative reforms.

In 2009, the taskforce, which is also part of the administrative reforms consultative council, managed to finish establishing a huge national database on administrative procedures and upload them to the internet.

The collection includes over 5,400 procedures, 9,000 documents and 100,000 administrative forms.

The taskforce, which has been entrusted of executing a project on streamlining administrative procedures, has helped standardise a set of administrative procedures at the provincial and municipal level.

The action has made it easier for ordinary people and businesspeople to access and supervise the administrative procedure execution, said the Deputy PM.

After the three year-reviewing stage finished by December last year, the Government has issued 25 resolutions on streamlining almost 5,000 administrative procedures available in 24 ministries and industries, or 88 percent of the existing procedures.

Once these resolutions are realised, it is expected to reduce the procedure costs by 37.3 percent and save businesses and ordinary people VND30 trillion (roughly US$1.44 billion) a year.

On this occasion, the Governmental Office made debut the Administrative Procedure Monitoring Bureau.

Source: VNA