Monday, November 22, 2010

Ministry to improve its human resources

HCM CITY — The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has set up a plan to develop its personnel resources for the 2011-15 period with a vision to 2020, at a total cost of VND10.6 trillion (US$550 million).

The plan aims to train new officials and staff as well as enhance the quality of personnel resources to meet the ministry's development demand.

The ministry estimates needing an additional 45,000 officials and staff from 2011-15.

Of that figure, 10,000 will work in the environmental sector; 8,000, the land sector; 1,000, the hydrometeorology sector; 3,000, the water resources sector; 3,000, the mineral geology sector; 3,000, the map measurement sector; and 20,000, the sea and island sectors.

The number of new officials and staff from 2016-20 will be cut by 20-25 per cent compared to the figure of new officials and staff from 2011-15.

In 2016-20, the ministry will focus on increasing the number of officials and staff in the sectors of land, water resources, hydrometeorology, map measurement and mineral geology.

It will also focus on training existing and future personnel.

Giang Duc Chung, deputy head of the ministry's Department of Personnel and Organisation, said the ministry's personnel resources had not met the need in quality and quantity.

Very few provincial and municipal departments of natural resources and environment have trained personnel in water resources, hydrometeorology and irrigation.

In several northern provinces such as Ha Giang, Tuyen Quang, Hai Duong and Thai Binh, there are no trained officials in hydrometeorology, mineral geology and water resources.

In addition, there is a shortage of management officials in most sectors.

Professor Truong Quang Hoc, former head of the Science and Technology Faculty of the National University of Ha Noi, said it needed to open new training faculties to meet the personnel demand of new sectors, including climate change and water resource management.

Viet Nam has a total of 78 universities and colleges and 45 intermediate professional schools which provide training faculties related to the natural resources and environmental sectors. — VNS

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