Hanoi completes the project to rearrange administrative units: fast, in accordance with regulations

This afternoon, July 11, the Central Inter-sectoral Working Group led by Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Nguyen Duy Thang surveyed the implementation of the arrangement of administrative units (ADUs) at district and commune levels for the period 2023-2025 in Hanoi.

Vice Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Vu Thu Ha chaired the reception of the delegation.

High political determination, clear implementation roadmap

At the meeting, Director of Hanoi Department of Home Affairs Tran Dinh Canh briefly informed about the Project on rearranging district and commune-level administrative units in the period of 2023-2025 in Hanoi. Accordingly, after the rearrangement, the number of district-level administrative units is 30 units, including 12 districts, 17 districts, 1 town; the number of commune-level administrative units is 518 units, including 337 communes, 160 wards, 21 towns. The number of district-level administrative units reduced due to rearrangement is 0 units and the number of commune-level administrative units is 61 units, including 46 communes, 15 wards, 0 towns.

The arrangement of administrative units at all levels in the city aims to concretize the policy of continuing to innovate in the spirit of Resolution 18-NQ/TW dated October 25, 2017, the 6th Conference of the 12th Party Central Committee "Some issues of continuing to innovate, reorganize the apparatus of the political system to be streamlined, operate effectively and efficiently"; Resolution 37-NQ/TW dated December 24, 2018 of the Politburo on the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels to reduce the number of administrative units, reorganize the apparatus of the political system to be streamlined, operate effectively and efficiently; Resolution 35/2023/UBTVQH15 dated July 12, 2023 of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels for the period 2023-2030.

Overview of the survey of the Central Interdisciplinary Working Group on the implementation of administrative unit arrangement at district and commune levels in the period of 2023-2025 in Hanoi.

The arrangement of administrative units at all levels in Hanoi has ensured compliance with legal regulations, in line with local realities, contributed to streamlining the apparatus, improving the efficiency of grassroots government, streamlining payroll, reducing the burden on the State budget; improving the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of the staff to better serve the people. At the same time, the arrangement of administrative units at the commune level creates conditions to concentrate resources on land and population, expand space for planning, focus on investment to expand production in a modern direction, effectively promote the potential and strengths of resources and minerals for development; avoid spreading investment in construction while the demand for use is still limited.

In particular, streamlining the apparatus and staffing is a difficult, complicated and sensitive issue directly related to the operations of organizations and the interests of cadres and civil servants... Therefore, to effectively implement the Project, it requires high political determination, drastic direction, organization and implementation, considering it a regular and continuous task; it is necessary to develop a clear implementation plan and roadmap, without haste, subjectivity or voluntarism.

At the meeting, Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Vu Thu Ha affirmed that the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels in the 2023-2025 period was identified by Hanoi City as an important political task with a huge amount of work, so the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee established a Steering Committee, organized conferences to disseminate information, worked with localities and many other tasks... From there, the dossier was completed and submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs the Project on arranging administrative units at district and commune levels in the 2023-2025 period of the City.

Director of Hanoi Department of Home Affairs Tran Dinh Canh informed about the Project on rearranging administrative units at district and commune levels in the period 2023-2025 in Hanoi City.

Emphasizing that the opinions of the Working Group are very specific and clear, giving suggestions to Hanoi to complete the next steps for easier implementation, the Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee also said that the City basically fully accepts the opinions and will report to the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee to continue to complete and implement. At the same time, he requested that the standing agency of the Project, the Department of Home Affairs, promptly review and unify the data in the documents and submissions; clarify the reasons for the adjustments between the initial submission and the later plan...

“Based on the opinions of the Delegation, the City People's Committee will assign departments to implement; hope that ministries and branches will support and assist with the contents to help Hanoi City soon approve the Project for implementation” - Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Vu Thu Ha stated.

Vice Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Vu Thu Ha speaks

Need clear thinking from the leader

Listening to the opinions of Hanoi leaders and a number of relevant agencies and units, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly's Law Committee Nguyen Phuong Thuy highly appreciated the efforts and high political determination of the entire Hanoi political system in developing this Project, with a very large number of administrative units subject to rearrangement, and having characteristics from the tradition, history and culture of the capital. In the context that the arrangement of administrative units this time in the city is part of the general policy of the Party and State to reduce the number of administrative units and increase the scale, Hanoi has had many difficulties and characteristics in the past time, but has proactively implemented early, closely followed the instructions, closely monitored the construction and completion of the Project, with a high rate of approval from voters in the localities subject to rearrangement.

From there, Ms. Nguyen Phuong Thuy suggested that the City should have specific explanations about the Project, so that when reporting to the National Assembly Standing Committee, there would be a basis for a highly convincing explanation. In particular, the explanation could be in the direction that Hanoi's planning is still in the process of completion, which will be the basis for the formation and development of new units, so in the next phase, the arrangement of the City's administrative units will be more drastic; the arrangement will be divided into stages, in which 2023-2025 achieving the number of administrative units reduced as in the Project is already a great success...

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Nguyen Duy Thang acknowledged Hanoi's efforts in developing the Project to rearrange administrative units at district and commune levels for the 2023-2025 period.

Concluding the survey, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Nguyen Duy Thang acknowledged the efforts of Hanoi City in developing the Project on arranging administrative units at district and commune levels for the period 2023-2025. At the same time, he requested the City to pay attention to the issue of arranging the staff of civil servants, arranging units under the administrative units, resolving redundant staff, in which thoroughly propagate to clearly understand the thoughts of the leaders; pay attention to solving paperwork and procedures for local people when arranging administrative units...

“It is necessary to link the arrangement of administrative units in this period with the arrangement in the 2026-2020 period, associated with the development planning of the Capital. The Hanoi People's Committee and the Hanoi Department of Home Affairs proactively coordinate with the Department of Local Government (Ministry of Home Affairs), linking each content, to specify the data accurately, logically, clearly and completely, quickly but still ensuring compliance with regulations, in order to have a complete Project submitted to the Central Government to receive high consensus, can be implemented well, creating a new look for the development of the Capital" - the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs emphasized.

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