Need to soon clear the kiosk next to comrade Nguyen Thi Minh Khai's memorial house in Vinh city

On July 11, 2017, Quang Trung Ward People's Committee issued Document No. 45/TTr-UBND on requesting investment policy to build a planned road betweenMemorial house of comrade Nguyen Thi Minh Khaiand the 12/9 cinema. This route is 91.71m long, connecting Quang Trung Street with the existing road behind the memorial house of comrade Nguyen Thi Minh Khai.

Based on the proposal of Quang Trung Ward and the Department of Finance and Planning, on July 17, 2017, Vinh City People's Committee issued Decision No. 4416/QD-UBND approving the investment policy for the construction of the planned road between Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Memorial House and 12/9 Cinema. According to the design, this project will be newly invested, including asphalt paving, drainage ditches, curbs, ditches, sidewalks and lighting. The roadbed is 7m wide, the road surface is 6m, the asphalt concrete structure is according to the design.

Vinh City People's Committee then assigned Quang Trung Ward to be the investor in the construction of this project. On March 14, 2023, Vinh City People's Committee issued Decision No. 647/QD-UBND approving the adjustment of the Economic - Technical Report and the contractor selection plan to build this project. Accordingly, the total investment for the construction of this project was adjusted from VND 1,519,027,000 to VND 1,580,852,000; the project implementation capital is supported by 80% from the city budget and Quang Trung Ward budget as well as mobilized people's contributions of 20%.

However, it has been nearly 6 years since the investment plan was approved, but this project has not been implemented yet. According to our investigation, the reason why this project, which is less than 100m long, has not been implemented is because there is a car repair kiosk and a bread kiosk located right on the project route. This kiosk is currently managed by the co-heirs of Mr. Vu Thai Son (deceased).

According to the report of Quang Trung Ward People's Committee, this motorbike repair and bread kiosk was self-made on Nghe An Library's land from after December 18, 1980 to before October 15, 1993, not in accordance with the planning, with a usable area of ​​98.40m2.². Of which, the area of ​​self-made kiosks before October 15, 1993 was 22.90m²; The area of ​​expansion after July 1, 2004 to before July 1, 2014 is 75.50m2²(This is the land recovered by Nghe An Provincial People's Committee in Decision No. 148/QD-UBND.DC dated June 20, 2011).

To clear this kiosk, on September 30, 2022, Vinh City People's Committee also issued Decision 4423/QD-UBND approving the land clearance support plan for Mr. Vu Thai Son's co-heirs. The amount that Mr. Vu Thai Son's co-heirs received was 43,651,360 VND. However, Mr. Vu Thai Son's family said that the compensation cost for site clearance was low, and at the same time requested to be allocated a plot of land in the form of valuation.

On April 4, 2023, the People's Committee of Quang Trung Ward also issued Report No. 99/BC-UBND on the request for approval to allocate land in the form of valuation to the legal heir of Mr. Vu Thai Son's family in Quang Trung Ward. Accordingly, the People's Committee of Quang Trung Ward reported and asked for the direction of the People's Committee of Vinh City on considering allocating to the heir of Mr. Son's family (Ms. Ho Thi Tu and son Vu Minh Thang), 1 plot of land in the form of valuation, because currently Ms. Tu and Mr. Thang do not have residential land.

Responding to the report of Quang Trung Ward People's Committee, on April 26, 2023, Vinh City Land Fund Development Center issued Document No. 440/PTQD-GPMB on handling the petition of Ms. Ho Thi Tu. In this document, Vinh City Land Fund Development Center also requested Vinh City People's Committee and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to issue a document requesting the Provincial People's Committee to allow and consider the wish to allocate 1 plot of land with land use fee collection without auction to Ms. Ho Thi Tu and Mr. Vu Minh Thang so that the family has a place to live when handing over the site for the project.

Regarding the payment of support to Mr. Vu Thai Son's co-heirs, the Vinh City Land Fund Development Center also requested the Vinh City People's Committee to assign the Quang Trung Ward People's Committee to work with Mr. Vu Thai Son's co-heirs to promptly hand over the site to the construction unit before May 15, 2023 to implement the project. However, up to this point, the site handover has not been carried out, leading to further delays in the project's commencement date.

Talking to us, Mr. Dinh Xuan Truong - Chairman of Quang Trung Ward People's Committee said: After the Vinh City Land Fund Development Center sent a document asking for opinions on the assignment of a residential land plot without auction to the co-heirs of Mr. Vu Thai Son, the Provincial People's Committee did not respond to this issue, but the authority to handle it belonged to Vinh City People's Committee. After reviewing the provisions of the law, Vinh City People's Committee affirmed that there was not enough basis to assign a land plot without auction to Ms. Ho Thi Tu.

“Currently, the ward has also selected a contractor to construct the planned road between the memorial house of comrade Nguyen Thi Minh Khai and the 12/9 cinema. At the same time, we are asking for the city’s opinion and making a plan to protect the construction in the coming time,” Mr. Truong added.

Obviously, the fact that a kiosk "sprouted" next to the province's cultural works, at the same time hindering the investment in the construction of traffic works is unacceptable. This needs to be resolved as soon as possible, to avoid prolonging the situation, affecting the landscape space, order and urban beauty of Quang Trung ward in particular and Vinh city in general.