Up to now, all provinces and cities have submitted documents on the project to reorganize administrative units at the provincial and commune levels. Of which, there are 23 provincial-level project dossiers and 63 commune-level project dossiers.
Based on the local project dossier, the Ministry of Home Affairs will appraise and develop a common project dossier of the Government on arrangement and consolidation of 52 provinces and cities according to the Central arrangement and consolidation orientation (11 provinces and cities remain the same) for the Government to consider submitting to the National Assembly and National Assembly Standing Committee.
At the same time, the Ministry of Home Affairs also appraised and prepared to submit to the Government to submit to the National Assembly Standing Committee 34 dossiers of the project to reorganize commune-level administrative units (including 11 dossiers of the province and city kept intact and 23 dossiers of the project of 23 new provinces and cities).
Regarding the progress of implementing 34 commune-level arrangement dossiers, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that by 11pm on May 4, this agency had submitted to the Government 26/34 commune-level arrangement plan dossiers.
In today, the Ministry of Home Affairs will continue to submit to the Government 6 dossiers of the commune arrangement project. Particularly, 2 documents arranging administrative units at the remaining two localities, the Ministry of Home Affairs is coordinating with the local to complete to submit to the Government soon before 10.5.
According to the initial synthesis from the Commune-level arrangement Project of provinces and cities, Hanoi is expected to be the locality with the highest rate of reduction in commune and ward levels after the arrangement, about 76%.
In addition, the rate of reduction to commune level after the reorganization is the least, about 60% is Can Tho city.
However, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs, it is expected that after the nation's arrangement, it will decrease by nearly 67% of the commune level compared to the current level, achieving the central orientation target set by 60-70% of the commune level.
For communes that do not implement the arrangement, according to the synthesis from localities, it is expected that 128 communes nationwide will remain in their original state due to meeting the prescribed standards or having isolated locations that do not implement the arrangement.
The Ministry of Home Affairs is urgently coordinating with localities to complete the general project dossier on the arrangement and consolidation of provinces and cities to submit to the Government as soon as possible.
Previously, according to Resolution No. 60 at the 11th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee, the Central Committee agreed in principle on the number of provincial-level administrative units after the merger as 34 provinces and cities (28 provinces and 6 centrally-run cities).
According to the list attached to Resolution No. 60, there are 11 provincial-level units (2 cities, 9 provinces) that have not merged and 52 provinces and cities have merged and consolidated to form 23 new provinces and cities.
