On July 31, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a document responding to the Department of Home Affairs of Dak Lak province on a proposal to clarify many contents related to organization, personnel, regimes, and policies in the process of implementing local government at 2 levels.
These include many contents related to the organization and operation of villages and residential groups; appointment of commune-level educational personnel; regimes and policies for part-time workers; application of regulations on early retirement and termination of employment when restructuring the apparatus.
One of the contents mentioned is the organization of villages and residential groups in the context that after the arrangement of administrative units, many areas no longer have enough households as prescribed.
According to the reflection of the Department of Home Affairs of Dak Lak province, after the arrangement of administrative units of communes and wards, there are some villages and neighborhoods that do not have enough households in a village/neighborhood due to adjustment of administrative boundaries.
Thus, how are the procedures for developing the Project to merge residential groups into villages and residential groups currently implemented? According to the Law on Organization of Local Government dated June 16, 2025, the authority to establish, reorganize, name, and rename villages is under the authority of the People's Council at the commune level, however, up to now, the Ministry of Home Affairs has not issued, amended, and supplemented Circulars guiding the organization and operation of villages and residential groups to comply with the model of 2-level local government?
The Department of Home Affairs of Dak Lak province also requested the Ministry of Home Affairs to issue documents for the locality to implement related to the fact that the Heads of villages, hamlets, residential groups and neighborhoods have so far expired.
Regarding the above contents, the Ministry of Home Affairs said: The Law on Organization of Local Government has stipulated the authority to establish, reorganize, dissolve, rename, and rename villages and residential groups of commune-level People's Councils.
To implement the organization and operation of villages and residential groups in the context of arranging administrative units and implementing the model of local government at 2 levels, the Ministry of Home Affairs also issued Document No. 4168/BNV-CQDP dated June 23, 2025, in which the Ministry of Home Affairs has guided the determination of the type of community organization at commune-level administrative units (new), the conversion of villages into residential groups or residential groups into villages and the change of village and residential group names due to the same name.
Notably, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that this agency is also drafting a Decree on the organization and operation of villages and residential groups, including regulations on regimes and policies for part-time workers, and submitting it to the Government for consideration and promulgation.
Regarding the process of electing village heads and heads of residential groups, these contents are stipulated in the Law on Grassroots Democracy and Decree No. 59/2023/ND-CP dated August 14, 2023 of the Government detailing a number of articles of the Law on Grassroots Democracy.
The Ministry of Home Affairs said that these regulations are in effect and are still suitable when implementing the 2-level local government model.
