On March 21, the Department of Home Affairs of Nghe An province sent a document to the People's Committee of Vinh City regarding the development of a plan to arrange commune-level administrative units.

Implementing Conclusion No. 127 of the Politburo and the Secretariat on the implementation of research and proposals to continue to reorganize the apparatus of the political system, the People's Committee of Nghe An province has issued an official dispatch assigning the Department of Home Affairs to preside over and coordinate with the People's Committees of districts, cities and towns to proactively advise on the development of plans to reorganize commune-level administrative units.

To ensure compliance with the instructions of the Central Government and the Provincial People's Committee, the Department of Home Affairs requests the Vinh City People's Committee to develop a plan to arrange administrative units.

The arrangement plan must ensure that it meets the prescribed standards. If the arrangement plan of 5 or more commune-level administrative units does not meet the criteria, no additional mergers are required. Minimize the merger of too many units to facilitate management, serve the people and arrange cadres and civil servants.

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Corner of Vinh City. Photo: TL

In case the new administrative unit is arranged with a scale larger than the criteria, it must be proven that it ensures the conditions of economic and social infrastructure.

Encourage the original import, minimize the adjustment of part of one commune administrative unit to another commune administrative unit to establish a new grassroots administrative unit.

Regarding the names of administrative units after the reorganization, they must be carefully and thoroughly researched, considering and cautiously taking into account traditional, historical and cultural factors. Priority should be given to using the names of administrative units before the merger to name new ones in order to minimize the impact on people due to the need to convert documents.

The Department of Home Affairs also guides the selection of the administrative-political center of one of the current commune-level administrative units as the location for the new unit to ensure that the local government at the commune level quickly goes into stable operation.

In addition, the Department of Home Affairs proposed that the Vinh City People's Committee develop a plan to reduce the number of commune-level administrative units to 3, based on area size, population and some other factors.

It is known that Vinh City currently has 33 commune-level administrative units, including 24 wards and 9 communes.