On September 13, at the 15th Session, term 2021-2026, Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee submitted a document to the People's Council proposing to approve the Resolution on merging, renaming, and dissolving a number of villages and residential groups in Nha Trang city and Van Ninh district.
Currently, in Nha Trang city, there are 298 villages and residential groups (66 villages, 232 residential groups), of which all 66 villages have households meeting the prescribed standards, 89/232 residential groups have households that do not meet the prescribed standards, of which, there are 3 residential groups in Vinh Nguyen ward that cannot be adjusted or rearranged due to special factors.
Meanwhile, Van Ninh district has 78 villages and residential groups (66 villages, 12 residential groups). After checking, there are 3 villages with the number of households not meeting the prescribed standards.
Of which, there are 2 villages with special factors in terms of geography, origin, religion, beliefs, customs and practices that suggest not to be arranged or merged, and 4/6 villages in Van Thanh commune have a number of households that do not meet the prescribed standards due to special factors, so adjustments and arrangements cannot be made.
According to the People's Committee of Khanh Hoa province, the merger of villages and residential groups is in line with the policy of encouraging streamlining the apparatus and staff; in line with the actual situation in the locality; contributing to streamlining the apparatus, improving the capacity, effectiveness of leadership, direction, management and operation of Party committees and commune-level authorities and improving the efficiency of investment in socio-economic infrastructure at the grassroots level.
After the merger, renaming, and dissolution of residential groups, Nha Trang city has 255 villages and residential groups (66 villages, 189 residential groups), a decrease of 43 residential groups. Van Ninh district after the merger will have 77 villages and residential groups (65 villages, 12 residential groups).
The project of merging and renaming a number of villages and residential groups as proposed by the People's Committee of Nha Trang city and Van Ninh district has been organized by the People's Committees of communes and wards to collect opinions from voters representing households in villages and residential groups related to the merger and renaming in accordance with regulations; the results of the collection of opinions all reached over 50% of the voters representing households in agreement.
