Arranging and renaming villages and residential groups: Proposal to delegate authority to the commune-level People's Council
The Ministry of Home Affairs has just made a new proposal on the authority to establish, arrange, reorganize, dissolve, name and rename villages and residential groups.
The Ministry of Justice has just announced the draft Decree regulating the organization and operation of villages and residential groups (TTDP) and regimes and policies for non-specialized workers (HĐKCT) in TTDP, which is being developed under the Ministry of Home Affairs' chairmanship.
According to the draft, villages, hamlets, villages, hamlets, hamlets, villages, bon, phun, sóc... are collectively called villages; residential groups, neighborhoods, blocks, hamlets, sub-areas... are collectively called residential groups.
TTDP is organized at the commune level including communes, wards and special zones. In which, villages are organized in communes, residential groups are organized in wards; the organization of TTDP in special zones is decided by the Provincial People's Council.
The draft clearly states that TTDP is an autonomous organization of a residential community with a common residential area within the scope of a commune-level administrative unit. This is also a place to implement direct democracy, promote forms of autonomy of the residential community; organize people to implement the Party's guidelines, policies, laws of the State and tasks assigned by the commune-level government.
Notably, the draft decree sets out a separate article regulating the authority to establish, arrange, reorganize, dissolve, name and rename TTDP.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Home Affairs proposed that the Ward People's Council decide on the establishment, arrangement, reorganization, dissolution, naming and renaming of TDPs in the area.
The Commune People's Council decides on the establishment, arrangement, reorganization, dissolution, naming and renaming of villages in the area.
The People's Council of the special zone decides on the establishment, arrangement, reorganization, dissolution, naming and renaming of TTDP in the area.
The Ministry of Home Affairs said that this regulation is supplemented to be consistent with the Law on Organization of Local Government No. 72/2025/QH15.
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