The Governmentleader and senior officials from several ministries and branches had aworking session in Hanoi on August 14 with the ministry on how to speedup the reform of administrative procedures in land management.
The ministry has so far publicized 214 administrative procedures,including 74 related to land and 42 on the environment, together withapplying widely information technology in handling procedures, making iteasier for people and businesses.
It, however,admitted that the reform has to date failed to meet expectations ofpeople and businesses, noting that several regulations have, otherwise,created loopholes and land-related procedures remained complicated.
The ministry named the complexities of the land issue and legalregulations requiring a meticulous sequence of handling procedures,among others, as hindrances to its administrative reform.
In conclusion, PM Dung stated that the land administrative reform hasto come up with better services for people and businesses.
He asked the ministry to guide localities nationwide in re-arrangingtheir one-level land registration office, citing the total of 41land-related administrative procedures handled by the office, which isdown 33 from the procedures required, as an evidence of efficiency.
The Government chief also instructed the ministryto quicken the building of a land database to facilitate onlinetransactions and increase the use of IT to shorten procedure processingduration.
Earlier, PM Dung required the generaldepartments of taxation and customs and the construction sector tosimplify procedures in their fields as part of efforts to stronglyimprove the national business climate and competitiveness.-VNA