According to the plan, the Department of Home Affairs will advise the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to submit to the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee a decision to establish a Steering Committee, Executive Committee and Working Group to implement the arrangement and reorganization of administrative units at all levels as well as build a model of organizing local government at 2 levels. This will be done in March 2025.
At the same time, the Department of Home Affairs will preside over and coordinate with departments, branches and local authorities to develop a task outline and budget estimates for the Project on the arrangement of administrative units and the 2-level government organization model. The implementation time is also in March 2025.
One of the important contents of the plan is to collect voters' opinions on the project. The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requires authorities at all levels to focus on propaganda and mobilization to create consensus among the people before organizing a public consultation.
The Department of Home Affairs will preside over the process of collecting voters' opinions in accordance with the provisions of law, and at the same time complete the project based on the conclusions of the Politburo and the Government's Decree on the establishment, dissolvement, merger, division, and adjustment of administrative unit boundaries. This will be done in April 2025.
Before May 5, 2025, the People's Councils of Ho Chi Minh City and Thu Duc City, 5 districts and 63 communes and towns will issue a resolution approving the policy of rearranging and reorganizing administrative units at all levels and building a 2-level local government model.
After that, the Department of Home Affairs will synthesize, complete the dossier and advise the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to submit to the Government and the National Assembly Standing Committee before May 10, 2025.
After the National Assembly Standing Committee's resolution, localities must organize the announcement of the Resolution; perfect and reorganize the apparatus; arrange a team of cadres, civil servants, and public employees; resolve regimes and policies for surplus cases; at the same time, arrange and handle headquarters and public assets; reclaim old seals and engrave new seals for agencies, organizations, and enterprises affected by boundary changes when forming new administrative units. The implementation time is before June 10, 2025.
One of the important tasks is to ensure that the information system for handling administrative procedures operates smoothly throughout the process of arranging administrative units.
Ho Chi Minh City will integrate administrative file processing data with the National Service Portal, the Government's electronic document system and information systems of ministries and branches.
Currently, Ho Chi Minh City has 22 district-level administrative units, including 16 districts, Thu Duc City and 5 districts. The total number of commune-level administrative units is 273, including 210 wards, 58 communes and 5 towns.
Districts and towns have proposed many arrangement options.
Thu Duc City proposes two options, one is to keep the grassroots government model under Ho Chi Minh City, the other is to divide it into 9 grassroots administrative units.
District 1 proposed two options to merge 10 wards into 2 new wards. Binh Thanh District proposed to reduce from 15 wards to 4 wards.
Phu Nhuan District plans to merge 11 wards into 2 new wards named Duc Nhuan and Phu Nhuan; Nha Be merges 7 communes and towns into two new communes Nha Be and Hiep Phuoc; Binh Chanh will be separated into 4 communes; District 3 will have one or two new wards depending on the plan; Binh Tan will have 3 wards; District 12 will have 3 or 4 wards depending on the plan...
