Need to implement the project of building a settled village for Dan Lai people in Chau Khe - Con Cuong

(Baonghean) - The project to build a village for Dan Lai people in Chau Khe-Con Cuong was approved for investment by the Provincial People's Committee under Decision No. 526/QD.UBND-NN dated February 20, 2009, with Con Cuong District People's Committee as the investor. The construction site is in Khe Nong village, Chau Khe commune, Con Cuong. The investment scale is to build synchronous infrastructure to bring 50 Dan Lai households in the commune to settle down in Khe Nong village, Chau Khe-Con Cuong commune. The total area of ​​the planned resettlement area is 72.94 hectares, including land for crop production, upland rice, and forest land. The project invested in building infrastructure such as roads, electricity works, domestic water systems, kindergartens, primary schools, medical stations, etc. The total investment of the project is 19.2 billion VND, capital from the central budget and integration of programs and projects in the area.

This project helps ethnic minorities, especially the Dan Lai people, stabilize production and living, improve their lives, and contribute to poverty reduction. In fact, the Dan Lai people in Bu and Chau Son villages are lacking land to grow crops and rice.

Chau Son village alone has over 170 households but only has 7 hectares of flat land and land for wet rice production, the whole village is severely hungry all year round. To earn a living, there are currently 36 Dan Lai households who have moved to Khe Nong to build temporary tents to live. Worryingly, Khe Nong has no infrastructure, no school, no medical station, no electricity, no market... People live in a wild, backward way, mainly going into the forest to illegally exploit forest products, produce on swidden fields, pick wild bamboo shoots... Most of the children do not go to school because it is nearly 40 km away from the center of Chau Khe commune.

Although the project was approved by the Provincial People's Committee 4 years ago, it has not yet been implemented by all levels and sectors.

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