On June 10, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee reported on the progress and implementation of the arrangement and reorganization of administrative units at all levels and built a model of organizing local government at 2 levels.
Ho Chi Minh City is reorganizing and arranging personnel, head and deputy head positions of units under the new commune-level People's Committee; arranging and arranging cadres and civil servants of the government sector at the commune level (including a plan to transfer the team of cadres and civil servants at the district level to the new commune level).
Currently, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has advised the Party Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to give opinions on 479 personnel expected to hold the positions of Chairman, Vice Chairman of the People's Council and Chairman, Vice Chairman of the People's Committees of newly established wards and communes.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee proposed that the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee give recommendations for 31 positions with personnel shortages expected to hold the positions of Chairman, Vice Chairman of the People's Council and Chairman, Vice Chairman of the People's Committees of newly established wards and communes.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee also submitted to the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to ask for the opinion of the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee to allow the increase of 1 Vice Chairman of the Ward People's Committee; 2 Deputy Heads (HDND and People's Committee Office and the Economic - Infrastructure, Urban) Department in 78 wards organizing urban government without a ward People's Council model until the ward People's Council for the 2026 - 2031 term is elected.
According to the Project on arranging commune-level administrative units of Ho Chi Minh City in 2025, after completion, the city will have 102 commune-level administrative units, including 78 wards and 24 communes.
Ho Chi Minh City will implement a large-scale personnel arrangement and transfer roadmap.
At the district level, 4,946 civil servant staffing quotas will be re-allocated to the commune level. In particular, the current force of cadres, leaders and managers at the district level will play a core role in the new commune-level administrative units.
61,998 positions of civil servants and employees receiving salaries from the budget at the district level will be transferred to the commune level, in accordance with the assignment of management to new public service units established after the arrangement.
In the ward, commune and town blocks, 6,627 cadres and civil servants working at the current commune-level People's Committees (including 2,011 cadres and 4,616 civil servants) will be retained in the commune-level payroll after the arrangement.
After adjustment, the total number of commune-level cadres and civil servants in Ho Chi Minh City will be 11,573 people.
Notably, 5,562 non-professional workers at the commune level will be given the regimes and policies according to regulations and completed in 2025.
