HCM CITY— HCM City on Thursday started to streamline unnecessary administrative procedures under the municipal People's Committee jurisdiction in the final stage of a four-year national project to reduce redtape.
Under Project 30 that started in 2007, the city's departments, agencies and People's Committees at all levels would have 264 administrative procedures simplified by the end of next month, said Vo Van Luan, head of the Project 30 in HCM City.
The city would have to wait for government approval to streamline over 1,500 other administrative procedures, because they did not fall within the city's jurisdiction.
It had proposed to streamline 1,770 of the 2,504 administrative procedures that had been reviewed, Luan said.
The city would also do an inventory on newly-issued administrative procedures and the streamlining process to update on the national online database of administrative procedures, he said.
"The streamlining of unnecessary administrative procedures within the city's jurisdiction should be implemented immediately without waiting for orders from the Government," said Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, chairman of the Government Office.
Project 30, which aims to cut at least 30 per cent of the current administrative procedures nationwide, will be completed by the end of the year. It had three phases – inventory, review and streamline. — VNS