A view of Nguyen Van Linh avenue near the Phu My Hung residential area in District 7, HCM City (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee hasannounced plans to reorganise districts, communes and wards by 2021.
It is aimed to rationalise the city’s administrative units to better serve thecity’s socio-economic development and improve the quality of governmentworkers, the Chairman of the People’s Committee, Nguyen Thanh Phong, said.
The task will take three years. The reorganisation will be completed this year,followed by the appointment of leaders and other authorities of thenewly-established administrative units next year.
In 2021, the city will organise elections to the People’s Council for the2021-26 term from the newly created administrative units.
Do Van Dao, deputy director of the Department of Internal Affairs, saidadministrative units which do not meet the standards set by the NA StandingCommittee -- a standard ward or commune must be at least 5.5sq.km and have apopulation of over 15,000 people -- would be merged with others.
The city currently has 322 wards and communes in its 24 districts, and 15 wardsdo not meet the NA standards and have to be merged with others.
Three of them are in District 2, two each in districts 3, 4, 5, 10, and PhuNhuan, and one each in districts 6 and 8.
No administrative unit at the district level needs to be restructured in thefirst stage, Dao said.
Truong Hoai Phong, head of the District 10 People’s Committee’s Division ofInterior, said retaining officials and employees from wards that would bemerged with others is the biggest challenge facing authorities since mergerswould inevitably leave many workers redundant.
“However, it would help improve District 10’s administrative work.”
The district’s ward 3 and 6 are among those to be merged.
Phong said Ward 3 has an area of 10.17ha and a population of about 7,200 whileWard 6 is 10.26ha and has more than 7,500 people. Plans for their merger havebeen sent to the city Department of Home Affairs, he said.
Besides wards 6 and 7 will also be merged, reducing the number of wards in thedistrict from 15 to 13.
Nguyen Minh Thien, chairman of District 3’s Ward 13, which is to be merged withanother, said district authorities are keeping ward-level agencies informedabout the progress. — VNS/VNA
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