The Provincial People's Committee has just issued directives to deploy the development of a master plan for arranging and reorganizing the system of villages and residential groups throughout the province.
According to the plan, Quang Ngai will carry out synchronous restructuring of 1,095 units to standardize scale, streamline the apparatus and reduce a total of 546 redundant villages and residential groups, striving to complete the entire roadmap before June 30, 2026.
The rearrangement of grassroots-level administrative units is assessed as a particularly important and urgent task of the province today.
Through a comprehensive review of the current situation, Quang Ngai currently has 1,710 villages, hamlets, and residential groups, but up to 700 units (accounting for 40.94%) do not meet the standards for household size according to new regulations.
In addition, after the rearrangement of provincial and commune-level administrative units in 2025, the number of villages and residential groups belonging to each commune-level unit has increased significantly, creating great pressure on the management and administration of local authorities.
This reality, combined with inadequacies in regimes, policies as well as the capacity of non-specialized cadres who have not had time to change and adapt to the new context, has posed an inevitable requirement to implement a comprehensive reform and restructuring to improve the quality of operations and towards sustainable development.
The core objective of the plan is to consolidate the organizational structure, improve the operational efficiency of the residential community, the management effectiveness of the commune-level government and the leadership work of the Party Committee.
In this overall plan, the Provincial People's Committee has clearly and detailedly stipulated the standards for the scale of households for each type of village and residential group based on geographical characteristics and specific regions.
For the delta area belonging to the South Central Coast and Central Highlands, the standards stipulate that each village must reach 300 households or more and each residential group must be from 450 households or more.
For mountainous areas, ethnic minority areas or particularly difficult villages, the standards are lowered to suit reality, specifically from 200 households or more for villages and from 250 households or more for residential groups.
For areas with complexly divided terrain, border areas, islands or isolated areas, the minimum regulation for villages is from 60 households and residential groups is from 150 households or more.
Based on this new standard system, Quang Ngai province will rearrange 1,095 villages and residential groups in 87 communes and wards to merge and form 549 new villages and residential groups. This process means that the whole province will reduce 546 units throughout the province.
At the same time, the remaining 615 villages and residential groups, because they have met the standards or have specific characteristics, will be kept in their original state and will not be arranged.
After completing the entire plan, the total number of villages and residential groups throughout Quang Ngai province will be reduced to 1,164 units, a sharp decrease of 31.93% compared to the initial total number.
The commune-level People's Committee is identified as having a central role, directly developing detailed projects, organizing widespread public opinion collection, promoting propaganda and mobilization to create the highest consensus, determined to bring Quang Ngai province to complete all arrangement work before June 30, 2026.
