In accordance with Prime Ministerial Decree 66/PM of 1999, the Ministry of Communications, Transport, Post and Construction is the state management organisation responsible for the macro-management of land, water, air, transport, post and telecommunication and urban and rural housing throughout the country. The duties of the Ministry include: (i) studying and developing the party and government's policy on land, water, air transport, communications, housing and urban planning in order to develop strategic plans, policy advice and detailed urban and rural development plans in each planning period, supervising their implementation in order to ensure efficiency and success; (ii) studying and defining regulations and laws for the organisations managing land, water, air, transport, communications, housing and urban planning and their activities; (iii) studying and seeking domestic and foreign funds to improve and extend networks of land, water, air, transport, communications, housing and urban planning in accordance with government development plans; (iv) establishing the plan and managing the implementation of the budget, finance and accounting in the sector; (v) inspecting, overseeing and managing the activities of the organisations and business units within the sector in accordance with regulations and laws; (vi) summarising and evaluating the implementation of plans, analysing communication systems, housing and urban planning in order to discover, develop and promote successful outcomes as well as discovering the disadvantages in order to resolve problems in time, summarising statistical data concerning communications, housing and urban planning for official use; (vii) managing land, water, air, transport, communications, housing and urban planning transport and machinery; (viii) studying and using the system of working methods of the Ministry to manage regulations concerning the organisational structure and civil servant numbers within the sector; (ix) educating, training, creating, reshuffling, managing and implementing incentives policies for civil servants within the sector in accordance with party and government policy; and (x) concentrating on research, promoting creative ideas and applying new scientific and technical advances to the sector. The Ministry comprises the following offices and departments: