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Vietnam removes over 10,000 civil servant posts in H1

Xinhua, July 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

Some 10,004 posts of civil servants have been removed during the first half (H1) of 2016 in Vietnam in a bid to reduce the total payrolls of the administrative system, according to Vietnamese Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan on Monday.

The reduction of the public workforce was made in 18 ministries and 61 localities across Vietnam, reported a newspaper of Vietnam's military on Monday.

From the beginning of 2015 till date, as many as 15,779 posts have been removed in the country's administrative system.

Currently, there are over 2.6 million civil servants in Vietnam.

According to Tan, the number of reduced members of the civil service over the past time remains low and does not meet with earlier target, which aims at reducing some 40,000 payrolls each year, equal to 1.5 percent of total civil servants in Vietnam. Endit