Organizational structure, working regulations, tasks, and powers of the District People's Committee in Da Nang City, Vietnam

Organizational structure, working regulations, tasks, and powers of the District People's Committee in Da Nang City (Image from the internet)

On June 26, 2024, the National Assembly of Vietnam passed Resolution 136/2024/QH15 regarding urban government organization and piloting some special mechanisms and policies for the development of Da Nang City, Vietnam.

Organizational structure, working regulations, tasks, and powers of the District People's Committee in Da Nang City, Vietnam

(1) The organizational structure of the District People's Committee includes the Chairman of the District People's Committee; Vice-Chairmen of the District People's Committee; Chief of the District Military Command; Head of the District Police; specialized agencies under the District People's Committee; other administrative agencies and public service providers under the District People's Committee. A grade I district has no more than 3 Vice-Chairmen, while a grade II district has no more than 2 Vice-Chairmen.

The Chairman and Vice-Chairmen of the District People's Committee are officials holding leadership and management positions within the District People's Committee.

(2) The working mode of the District People's Committee is stipulated as follows:

- The District People's Committee works under the single-leader policy, ensuring the principle of democratic centralism;

- The Chairman of the District People's Committee is the head of the District People's Committee, responsible to the City People's Council, City People's Committee, Chairman of the City People's Committee, and before the law for the implementation of duties and powers of the District People's Committee.

The Chairman appoints, removes, transfers, rotates, seconds, rewards, disciplines, and temporarily suspends the work of the Chairman of the Ward People's Committee, Vice-Chairmen of the Ward People's Committee, and heads and deputy heads of specialized agencies under the District People's Committee; recruits and manages officials and public employees under their management according to the law; and signs the documents of the District People's Committee;

- Vice-Chairmen of the District People's Committee assist the Chairman in executing tasks according to the Chairman's delegation and are accountable to the Chairman for their assigned tasks. When the Chairman is absent, one Vice-Chairman, as authorized by the Chairman, can act on behalf of the Chairman to manage and resolve the work of the District People's Committee.

(3) The District People's Committee has the following duties and powers:

- Perform the duties and powers of a budgetary unit under the City People’s Committee as regulated by the State Budget Law;

- Propose investment policies for programs and public investment projects using state budget funds to the City People’s Committee; participate in providing opinions on investment policies for projects under the decision-making authority of competent agencies or individuals, which the Public Investment Law stipulates must include the participation of the district People’s Council; organize the implementation of public investment programs and projects and plans in the district as assigned;

- Regulate organizational structures and specific duties and powers of specialized agencies under the District People’s Committee in accordance with the practical situation of state management in the city;

- Be responsible for the effectiveness and efficiency of the administrative system from the district to the grassroots level, ensuring the uniformity and continuity of governance; implement administrative reforms and civil service and official reforms in the local government administrative system;

- Propose and cooperate with competent agencies to execute national defense, security tasks, measures for social order, safety, crime prevention, and other legal violations in the district as assigned;

- Implement tasks concerning organization and assurance of law enforcement, state construction and administrative demarcation, education, training, science, technology, culture, information, physical education, sport, health care, labor, social policy, ethnic policy, religious policy, judicial administration, auxiliary judicial, environment protection measures, fire and explosion prevention, disaster and epidemic prevention, population management, and other duties and powers under the law in the district;

- Manage and organize the use of public properties, assets, working means, and the assigned state budget as regulated by law;

- Organize inspections, verifications, complaint and denunciation settlements, legal violations handling, and citizen receptions as regulated by law;

- Perform tasks and powers as delegated and authorized by higher-level state agencies;

- Delegate and authorize the Ward People’s Committee; delegate and authorize specialized agencies, other administrative agencies, public service providers under the District People's Committee to execute tasks and powers of the District People’s Committee as regulated by law;

- Issue legal normative documents to regulate matters assigned by law, the resolution of the National Assembly, and allocate tasks as stipulated in this point. Suspend, annul partially or entirely illegal documents of specialized agencies under the District People's Committee and illegal documents of the Ward People’s Committee;

- Decide on tasks that, according to the law, must be approved by the District People’s Council before deciding; submit to the City People’s Committee for decision-making tasks within the authority of the District People’s Council as regulated by law;

- Execute other tasks and powers as regulated by law that are not contrary to the provisions of Resolution 136/2024/QH15.

(Article 7 of Resolution 136/2024/QH15)

More details can be found in Resolution 136/2024/QH15, which comes into force in Vietnam from January 1, 2025.

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