Bac Lieu province is studying a plan to merge and reduce 50% of commune-level administrative units, equivalent to reducing from 64 units to 32 units according to Conclusion 137, dated March 28, 2025 of the Politburo and the Secretariat.
This information was given by Mr. Huynh Quoc Viet - Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Bac Lieu Provincial Party Committee - at a preliminary meeting of the first quarter of 2025 of the Bac Lieu Provincial Party Committee.
The leaders of Bac Lieu province also said that the Central Government is oriented to merge Bac Lieu province and Ca Mau province into one, end the district-level administrative unit and reorganize the administrative unit of the commune, ward and town. After the arrangement, Bac Lieu still has 32 wards and communes.
For commune -level payrolls, the number of cadres, civil servants and officials of the district, cadres and civil servants of the current commune level. Implement streamlining roadmap, associated with restructuring, improving the quality of grassroots cadres and civil servants to meet task requirements, ensuring that within 5 years of basic periods in accordance with regulations. The province will also end the use of part -time operating people in communes, wards and townships; Consider those who are qualified and capable, then arrange for hamlets and clusters.
Bac Lieu will collect public opinions on the merger of communes and wards, how to name new administrative units and the location of commune and ward headquarters after the arrangement.
Previously, Bac Lieu province also studied a plan to reduce 70% of commune-level administrative units. After the arrangement, Bac Lieu reduced from 64 commune-level administrative units to 19 units, but now it has changed according to the new instructions of the Central Government.
