The Chairman of Da Nang City People's Committee has just signed and issued a plan to implement the arrangement and consolidation of the organization and operation of villages and residential groups, and at the same time arrange, use and implement regimes and policies for non-specialized workers in the area.
Notably, the Chairman of Da Nang City People's Committee requested that the arrangement must be consistent with the criteria and conditions according to the Government's regulations and the management requirements of the locality when operating the 2-level local government.
But it is also necessary to fully consider the specific factors of history, culture, customs, habits, geography, national defense, security and the natural cohesion of the community, especially in mountainous areas, border areas, islands, ethnic minority areas and areas with religious elements.
This is a very correct request.
The reality of the process of arranging administrative units in the past time shows that many localities have faced a not simple problem: how to make the apparatus more streamlined but not lose the values that have been nurtured through many generations, especially the issue of name.
For local authorities, the name is just a "code" for management. But for the people, each name is associated with and preserves community memories, the history of land formation, cultural space, and customs and habits passed down from generation to generation.
Therefore, the arrangement of villages and residential groups, if only viewed from a mechanical perspective of population or area criteria, will easily miss out on intangible values that are of particular importance to community life.
Therefore, what people are most concerned and concerned about in arranging and merging villages and residential groups at this time is whether familiar names are still preserved or not, whether community identity is diluted or not, and whether social connections that have been formed through many generations are respected or not.
Therefore, the requirement to consider historical, cultural and customary factors in Da Nang's arrangement shows an approach that puts people and the community at the center as well as towards consensus.
In particular, after expanding the development space, Da Nang has a territory stretching from urban to mountainous areas, from coastal areas to ethnic minority areas. Each land has its own characteristics in terms of history, culture and social life.
If the arrangement is carried out cautiously, on the basis of respecting those characteristics, the process of streamlining the apparatus will receive higher consensus from the people.
Conversely, if this is only considered an administrative addition and subtraction, it is very easy to create gaps in community life that will take a lot of time to compensate later.
streamlining the apparatus and improving the efficiency of grassroots governance is an inevitable requirement. But in that journey, historical and cultural values and community cohesion also need to be preserved as a valuable asset of each locality.
And not only Da Nang, this requirement is needed in all localities in the phase of rearranging villages and residential groups to complete the current 2-level local government model.
