Nghe An: Efforts to issue and change household registration for people in the merged area
(Baonghean) - In addition to merging commune-level administrative units, Hung Nguyen district also merged many hamlets in the area. This is one of the districts with the largest number of merged hamlets and communes in the province. Immediately after the merger, the authorities made efforts to issue and change personal identification documents for the people, of which the most important thing right now is to issue and change household registration books.
Implementing the policy of merging commune-level administrative units according to Resolution 831/NQ-UBTVQH14 (dated December 17, 2019), Hung Nguyen district has 10 communes merged into 5 communes, including: Hung Xa commune merged with Hung Long to form the new commune Long Xa; Hung Lam merged with Hung Xuan to form Xuan Lam commune; Hung Phu merged with Hung Khanh commune to form the new commune Hung Thanh; Hung Nhan merged with Hung Chau to form Chau Nhan commune; Hung Tien merged with Hung Thang to form the new commune Hung Nghia.
At the same time, the district merged 222 hamlets in the area. Thus, after the merger, Hung Nguyen reduced from 23 communes and towns to 18 commune-level administrative units and reduced from 252 hamlets to 126 hamlets.
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| Wood corner of Chau Nhan commune (Hung Nguyen). Photo: TL |
Through the review, due to the merger of hamlets and communes, 32,529/33,882 households had to change their household registration (the whole district only had 1,353 households that did not have to change). At the same time, over one hundred thousand people had to change their identity cards and move towards changing other related documents. Because the household registration book is the most essential document, to serve as a basis for issuing and changing identity cards, land use right certificates as well as serving loan transactions, supplementing personal records... of the people, Hung Nguyen District Police quickly got involved in this field.
Colonel Le Van Thai - Head of Hung Nguyen District Police said: Since November 2019, before the official decision of the National Assembly Standing Committee on merging commune-level administrative units of Nghe An province, the District Police had Plan No. 1105/KH-CAH (QLHC) on organizing the issuance and change of household registration books when merging communes and hamlets. At that time, the hamlets had basically merged, so the District Police assigned the Police Team for Administrative Management of Social Order (QLHC on TTXH) and the police of the communes to review and carry out procedures for issuing and changing household registration books and issuing and renewing identity cards for people in the area.
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| The Police Team for Administrative Management of Social Order of Hung Nguyen District Police reviewed and completed procedures for issuing and changing household registration books and identity cards. Photo: Nguyen Son |
During the implementation process, the Social Order Police Team directly worked with the police force of 5 newly merged communes, went to the locality to guide people in completing procedures for issuing and changing household registration and identity cards. At the same time, the team worked with the police of the communes that merged hamlets to carry out the above contents. At the same time, at the District Police Headquarters, the Social Order Police Team increased staff to work overtime to quickly complete procedures for issuing and changing household registration and identity cards for people.
According to Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Thi Lan - Captain of the Administrative Police Team for Social Order, Hung Nguyen District Police, with a huge volume of household registration and ID cards needing to be issued and changed, almost changing the entire district, the officers in the team had to assign shifts, work overtime, both directly go to the grassroots to help households and people in difficult circumstances complete the procedures, and coordinate with the commune police to quickly review the list of people needing to be issued and changed to soon meet the people's requests.
"We have been propagating to the people, giving priority to households that are really in urgent need of administrative procedures to change their household registration first. Up to now, about 4,000 households have been changed..."
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| Fingerprinting for ID card at one-stop shop. |
Currently, the District Police are allocating the unit's budget to implement and request the District People's Committee to support in the coming time to change household registration for people.
Along with speeding up the process of issuing and exchanging household registration books for people in hamlets and communes after the merger, the Police Team for Administrative Management of Social Order - Hung Nguyen District Police increased its staff and soon completed the procedures for issuing and exchanging free identity cards for people aged 14 and over.
