On June 16, Ms. Pham Thi To Hai - Director of Gia Lai Provincial Department of Home Affairs - said that the whole province is expected to reduce the number of villages and residential groups by 47.86% after the arrangement is implemented. This plan has been commented on by the Standing Committee of Gia Lai Provincial Party Committee.
According to Ms. Hai, the province has issued a plan to arrange and reorganize villages and residential groups in the area in 2026. Currently, communes and wards are organizing to collect people's opinions. After that, the commune-level People's Council will consider and issue a resolution on arranging and reorganizing villages and residential groups according to regulations.
Currently, Gia Lai has a total of 2,693 villages and residential groups, including 2,028 villages and 665 residential groups.
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 non-specialized workers, contributing to saving budget spending 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.
Do not separate 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 non-specialized personnel; effectively using facilities, community centers and cultural institutions at the grassroots level, ensuring conditions for self-management activities of residential communities after arrangement, avoiding waste and formalism.
