The Government has just received Document No. 2171/TTr-BNV on provincial-level reorganization in 2025. One of the notable contents in the submission is the handling of redundant public offices after the arrangement and merger of provinces.
From data in the current comprehensive administrative unit arrangement projects, there are 38,182 provincial-level public headquarters of 52 provinces and cities that are being reorganized.
Of which, the number of public headquarters expected to continue to be in use is 33,956. The number of surplus headquarters will be 4,226.
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.
In the projects, the People's Committees of provinces and cities implementing the arrangement have plans and strategies for arrangement, arrangement, use, investment in repairing, renovating, and upgrading working headquarters to ensure working conditions for agencies and organizations at the new provincial level.
Regarding the arrangement and handling of headquarters, Resolution No. 76/2025/UBTVQH15 of the National Assembly Standing Committee stated that the arrangement and use of headquarters, handling of public finance and assets after the arrangement of administrative units shall comply with the Government's regulations on rearrangement, handling of public finance and assets and instructions from competent authorities; ensuring thrift practice, combating corruption, waste and negativity.
The provincial local authorities, where the political -administrative center of the provincial level is arranged after the arrangement is responsible for proactively balancing and arranging budgets to invest in repairing, renovating and upgrading working offices to continue to serve the operation of the administrative unit after arrangement.
This level must also pay attention to arranging public housing, means of service and travel needs for the team of cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers of administrative units that carry out the arrangement to stabilize working conditions at the administrative unit after the arrangement.
At the same time, the new provincial level will guide and create conditions for local authorities at the commune level after the budget balance to invest in repairing, renovating, and upgrading working headquarters, ensuring working conditions for agencies, organizations, and units at the commune level.
According to the draft Law on Organization of the local government to be submitted to the National Assembly, within 15 days from the date this bill will take effect, the Standing Committee of the People's Council, the agencies under the People's Council, the People's Committee, the Chairman of the People's Committee, the specialized agencies of the People's Committee of the district, district and cities of provinces and cities of centrally -run cities, towns must complete the handover of work, documents, materials, finance, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, budgets, financial documents competent organizations and units.
This handover ensures the normal, continuous and smooth operation of the agencies, without interruption of work, without overlap, overlap or omission of tasks, fields, and areas, without affecting the socio-economic development tasks, normal operations of society, people, and businesses, ensuring national defense, security, social order and safety in the area.
