Clause 3, Article 2 of Circular 83/2025/TT-BQP (effective from August 7, 2025) amending and supplementing Article 7 of Circular 69/2020/TT-BQP has been amended and supplemented in Clause 4, Article 1 of Circular 47/2024/TT-BQP, regulating the decentralization of the plan to organize militia and self-defense training as follows:
Decentralization of training organization
- Provincial military agencies train militia companies for self-defense of artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, and standing militia squads;
- The provincial military command directs the first-year militia and self-defense training area defense command board, air defense militia, artillery, marine militia and self-defense units, reconnaissance, information, engineering, defense, medicine and artillery teams of the commune level; based on the local situation, training can be organized in clusters;
- Commune-level military commands train regular, mobile, and on-site militia units at the commune level;
- The military command of an agency, organization, or self-defense unit (where there is no military command of an agency or organization) organizes training for the self-defense unit in an agency or organization; in case the conditions for organizing training are not met, the Commander of the provincial military command will consider and decide to organize training.
- The regional defense command board directs, guides, and inspects the commune-level military command board to organize training for militia and self-defense forces, commune-level combat drills in the civil defense and defense area and other tasks as prescribed by law.
- The head of a military enterprise directs the agency or unit to train the self-defense unit under his/her authority.
Regarding the plan for militia training at the commune level, the organizing agency shall develop a plan for militia training at the commune level, the military command of the agency, organization or command of the self-defense unit (where there is no military command of the agency or organization) and submit it to the Commander of the provincial military command or the Commander of the regional defense command (when authorized).
