On the morning of December 9, at the 20th session, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee submitted to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council a proposal to rename neighborhoods in wards implementing administrative unit arrangement according to Resolution 1278 of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the arrangement of commune-level administrative units of Ho Chi Minh City in the period of 2023 - 2025.
According to Resolution 1278, Ho Chi Minh City will reorganize 80 wards in Districts 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, Binh Thanh, Go Vap and Phu Nhuan into 41 wards. These new wards will officially come into operation from January 1, 2025.
According to statistics, out of a total of 634 neighborhoods in 80 wards, 283 neighborhoods need to be renamed to match the new wards. The remaining 351 neighborhoods will keep their original names.
The list of neighborhoods that need to be renamed is as follows: District 3 (12 neighborhoods); District 4 (14 neighborhoods); District 5 (18 neighborhoods); District 6 (32 neighborhoods); District 8 (53 neighborhoods); District 10 (14 neighborhoods); District 11 (30 neighborhoods); Binh Thanh District (53 neighborhoods); Go Vap District (48 neighborhoods); Phu Nhuan District (9 neighborhoods).
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee also proposed a plan to arrange personnel in 41 new wards in 2025. The wards merged from three wards in Districts 6, 11 and Go Vap will arrange a maximum of 8 officers/ward.
For the 16 new wards merged from two wards in Districts 3, 5, 10, 11 and Go Vap but have not completed the personnel plan for the congress term 2025 - 2030, each ward will arrange 7 cadres. The remaining wards will have 6 cadres/ward.
Thus, the total number of cadres in 41 wards in 2025 is 269 people. In addition, the total number of civil servants in 41 wards is 1,046 people, a decrease of 154 people compared to 2024.
Besides, the number of non-professional workers in 41 wards is 982 people, a decrease of 70 people compared to last year.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee submitted to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council a proposal for many support policies for redundant officials and civil servants due to the merger process, especially in cases of early retirement, voluntary resignation, or ineligibility for reappointment.
For those who retire early, in addition to the policy under Article 5 of Decree 29, they will receive a subsidy of 3 months' salary for each year of early retirement; 5 months' salary for the first 20 years of work. From the 21st year onwards, for each year of work, employees will receive an additional half month's salary.
For commune-level cadres and civil servants who have to quit their jobs due to administrative unit arrangement outside the regime according to Clause 1, Article 8 of Decree 29, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City proposed to provide an additional allowance of 1.5 months' salary for each year of early retirement, 5 months' salary for the first 20 years of work; from the 21st year onwards, for each year of work, an additional half month's salary will be provided.
Female commune-level cadres who retire due to administrative unit arrangement outside the regime according to Clause 2, Article 8 of Decree 29 will be granted an additional 5 months' salary and 1.5 months' salary for each year of early retirement.
Officials who quit their jobs immediately but are not in the downsizing group will be given an additional 3 months' salary to find a job, 1.5 months' salary for each year of work...
The support base level is the salary of the month immediately preceding the downsizing, including salary according to rank, position, allowances...
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee estimates that it will need about VND175 billion each year to implement the policy of supporting more than 1,000 redundant cadres, civil servants, and non-professional workers when 80 wards are merged.
