On the morning of December 10 at the National Assembly House, the National Assembly Standing Committee opened the 40th session - the last session of 2024 to consider and decide on adding a number of draft laws and resolutions to the 2025 Law and Ordinance Development Program; at the same time, consider and approve the 2025 Work Program of the National Assembly Standing Committee and many other important contents under its authority.
In his opening speech, Politburo member and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man said that it is expected that by the end of February 2025, the National Assembly will meet to amend and supplement a number of articles of the Laws related to streamlining and reorganizing the state apparatus such as the Law on Organization of the National Assembly (amended), the Law on Organization of the Government (amended), and the Law on Organization of Local Government (amended).
Notably, at this session, the National Assembly Standing Committee will consider the arrangement and establishment of district and commune-level administrative units in the 2023-2025 period of Ninh Binh province.
Previously, the Project on rearranging administrative units at district and commune levels in Ninh Binh province for the 2023-2025 period received high consensus at the plenary session of the National Assembly's Law Committee at the end of November 2024.
Up to now, the Project dossier on rearranging administrative units at district and commune levels in Ninh Binh province for the period 2023-2025 has been approved by the Government.
According to this project, at the district level, Hoa Lu district and Ninh Binh city will be merged to form Hoa Lu city.
For the commune level, after the arrangement, 16 new commune-level administrative units will be formed, 1 district-level administrative unit will be reduced and 18 commune-level administrative units will be reduced.
The process of preparing the Project to rearrange administrative units at district and commune levels of Ninh Binh province was also assessed to ensure compliance with the prescribed procedures.
The project received high approval rates from voters and People's Councils in directly affected administrative units, and the results of the voter consultation were also announced on the Government's electronic information portal.
Regarding the standards of administrative units formed after the arrangement, Hoa Lu city formed after the arrangement meets the standards on natural area, population size, structure and level of socio-economic development as prescribed in Resolution No. 1211 and Resolution No. 35.
Regarding the number of surplus cadres, civil servants, public employees, and non-professional workers at district and commune-level administrative units, the surplus of 60 people at the district level is expected to be arranged to work at agencies and units in the political system in the province; and the surplus of 369 people at the commune level is expected to be resolved within 5 years.
At the above meeting, the Law Committee highly agreed with the Government's Proposal, approved the establishment of Hoa Lu city, and basically agreed with the plans to arrange administrative units at district and commune levels of Ninh Binh province in the period of 2023 - 2025. The Project dossier ensures sufficient conditions to be submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee for consideration and decision.