Implementing the policy of streamlining the administrative apparatus to operate more effectively and efficiently, the new Lao Cai province will have a total of 99 administrative units at the commune and ward levels.
After the merger, about 800 cadres and workers will move to the new administrative center located in Yen Bai. Therefore, many consolidated headquarters will no longer be used.
In mid-June, according to the reporter of Lao Dong Newspaper along Tran Hung Dao Avenue, where a series of headquarters of administrative units in Lao Cai province are located, operations in these areas are very bustling.
In addition, some old headquarters of the departments after the merger and consolidation have now stopped operating.
Mr. Bui Duc Huy (residing in Lao Cai city) shared: "The infrastructure of Lao Cai province is currently invested in very synchronously and modernly. However, in the new situation after the merger, the surplus of administrative headquarters is inevitable. We also hope that these buildings will be transferred to other units for continued use, not leaving them abandoned, causing waste.
Similarly, Ms. Luong Thi Hoa (residing in Bao Thang district) said that after the new administrative center is moved to Yen Bai, Lao Cai will be quite empty. In particular, many district-level headquarters in the province have been invested with hundreds of billions of VND for construction but it is not known what they will be used for because there will be no more districts in the near future.
According to Ms. Hoa, departments need to have a plan to use old headquarters and newly completed investment headquarters to make the most of existing infrastructure, limiting additional construction.
Information from the leader of Lao Cai Department of Finance, after the relocation, the facilities that are convenient for educational institutions will be handed over to educational institutions, the rest will be handed over to medical units.
According to the proposed plan of the Lao Cai Provincial Department of Finance, the headquarters of the 6 surplus blocks is expected to be arranged for Lao Cai High School for the Gifted to use.
The headquarters of the Department of Science and Technology (old) and the Center for Inspection and Testing of Goods will be used to expand Lao Cai Province Endocrinology Hospital.
The old Political School will be transferred to the Lao Cai Province Vocational Education and Continuing Education Technical Center.
The Lao Cai Department of Finance has also developed a detailed roadmap for handling surplus public assets until 2026, 2027.
In addition, for more than 300 surplus public service cars, there is also a detailed handling plan; in which, priority is given to allocating to new communes and wards to promptly put into operation.
According to the Submission No. 2171 reporting to the Government, after the merger of provinces and cities, there are 4,226 surplus public offices that need to be handled, the number of public offices expected to continue to be used is 33,956.
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the arrangement and use of headquarters and handling of public finance and assets after the provincial-level arrangement must comply with the Government's regulations on rearrangement and handling of public finance and assets and the instructions of the Ministry of Finance.
The local government at the provincial level where it is expected to arrange the provincial-level political-advisory center after the arrangement is responsible for proactively balancing and allocating the budget to invest in repairing, renovating and upgrading the working headquarters to continue to be used to serve the operations of the administrative unit after the arrangement.
