On May 30, Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee announced that it had a plan to rearrange and reorganize villages and residential groups in the province in 2026.
The arrangement aims to promptly, uniformly and effectively implement the Central Government's policy; arrange, use and implement regimes and policies for non-specialized workers (NHĐKCT) in villages and residential groups; ensure compliance with the requirements of operating the 2-level local government model and local practice.
At the same time, streamlining focal points at the grassroots level, reducing direct management pressure for commune-level governments, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of direction, administration and organization of task implementation; improving the quality of self-management activities of residential communities, contributing to building a government close to the people, close to the people, and serving the People better.
According to the plan, the whole province is oriented to reduce about 40-45% of the number of villages and residential groups compared to the present. In which, wards reduce about 50-55%; plain communes with high population density, socio-economic conditions and developed infrastructure reduce about 40-45%; mountainous communes, ethnic minority areas, border areas, and islands reduce about 30-35%.
The province encourages localities to implement arrangements at a higher rate than the orientation in order to streamline focal points, increase the scale of villages and residential groups in a reasonable way; drastically reduce the number of villages and residential groups and the number of NHĐKCT, contributing to saving budget expenditures to focus resources on socio-economic development.
For mountainous areas, ethnic minority areas, remote and isolated areas, border areas, islands or areas with fragmented terrain, difficult transportation, scattered population, and specific requirements for national defense and security that cannot be arranged or have a reduction rate lower than the orientation, it is necessary to clearly explain the reasons and necessity.
The plan also clearly states that it is not necessary to divide 1 village or residential group into many residential clusters to establish new units, except in necessary cases to solve irrationalities in geography, terrain, customs, habits, population characteristics, socio-economic development level, practical management requirements and legitimate aspirations of the people.
The arrangement must be associated with consolidating the organization in the political system in villages and residential groups; restructuring and improving the quality of the NHĐKCT team; effectively using facilities, community centers and cultural institutions at the grassroots level, ensuring conditions for self-management activities of the community after arrangement, avoiding waste and formalism.
Regarding the implementation progress, based on the project submitted by the commune-level People's Committee, the commune-level People's Council will consider and issue a resolution on arranging and reorganizing villages and residential groups, to be completed before June 30.
