Delay from localities in handling surplus houses and land after merger in Nghe An?
This content was informed at the question and answer session of the 21st Session of the 18th Provincial People's Council, term 2021 - 2026.
The question and answer session at the 21st Session of the Provincial People's Council related to the group of issues of arranging commune-level administrative units, period 2023 - 2025 and arranging and resolving regimes and policies for cadres, civil servants, and redundant workers after arranging commune-level administrative units.
In addition to the question and answer session of the Director of the Department of Home Affairs, the Director of the Department of Finance also answered questions from the Provincial People's Council delegates regarding the arrangement of surplus facilities and the Director of the Department of Education and Training answered questions from the Provincial People's Council delegates regarding the arrangement of schools and classrooms in the merged units.
Responding to questions raised by the chairman of the session and by delegates of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Duy Can (Vinh city), Ho Sy Nguyet (Quynh Luu district) regarding the results of the arrangement of facilities in the administrative unit arrangement phase 2019 - 2021 and the arrangement of facilities to both avoid waste and promote functionality in the phase 2023 - 2025, Director of the Department of Finance Trinh Thanh Hai informed: In the 2019 - 2021 period of arranging public service units, commune-level administrative units and merging hamlets, there are a total of 4,408 facilities that need to be arranged and handled; including 227 commune-level facilities and 3,996 cultural houses and 185 district-level service units.
As of July 4, 2024, 4,269/4,408 real estate establishments have had their handling plans approved by the Provincial People's Committee, reaching 96.84%. The remaining real estate establishments that have not had their handling plans approved are 139 establishments (accounting for 3.15%), in some districts: Tuong Duong, Dien Chau, Nghia Dan, Hung Nguyen, Quynh Luu...
The reason for the delay is that some localities have not really actively coordinated and paid attention to directing the completion of documents and making plans for post-merger arrangements. Although the Provincial People's Committee has repeatedly reminded and issued 10 guiding documents and the Department of Finance has issued 20 guiding and urging documents.
On the other hand, land records are not suitable for the purpose of use, such as in the management records of the commune cadastral office, the current cadastral map still shows the symbol as agricultural land, accordingly, to approve the arrangement plan, the units must prepare a dossier to carry out land registration and submit it to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to change the purpose of land use. This content requires a lot of time to synthesize the dossier, as well as carry out the steps in accordance with the provisions of the Land Law.
Some houses and lands do not have solid fences around them, and there are no land boundaries, so there is no clear basis for determining the land area to approve the arrangement plan. The units must re-measure the house and land area, which takes a lot of time, affecting the progress of completing the house and land records to establish the arrangement plan.
Surplus houses and land that are no longer needed for their old purposes need to be arranged in other forms such as auctioning and transferring, but they are not in accordance with land use planning and construction planning. The reason is that localities have not proactively updated and adjusted these houses and land in a timely manner into the land use planning for the period 2021 - 2030 and construction planning, new rural planning according to the new purpose of use, so the arrangement plan cannot be approved according to the proposals of the localities...
Responding to questions from the Provincial People's Council delegates about the inadequacies in the plan for using assets after the merger that are no longer suitable for the scale compared to the previous status, especially cultural houses of communes, cultural houses of hamlets, villages, and hamlets, the Director of the Department of Finance said that the Provincial People's Council has issued Resolution No. 20, dated December 9, 2021, after the merger allowing the auction of a facility to focus on investing in renovating and upgrading the remaining facilities, meeting the requirements for using the remaining facilities. During the implementation process, if there are difficulties, localities need to develop a plan, the Department of Finance will study, consider, and consider supporting implementation resources if really necessary.
Responding to questions from the Provincial People's Council delegates about handling public debt between merged communes, the Director of the Department of Finance affirmed: Since 2014, with the tightening of regulations, the situation of debt in basic construction investment no longer exists; for merged communes, the principle is that before merging, all capital construction investment sources must be completely handled.
No machinery in school arrangement
At the question and answer session, Director of the Department of Education and Training Thai Van Thanh also answered questions from delegate Tran Thi Thanh Huyen (Thanh Chuong district) regarding the school arrangement plan associated with the school network planning.
The Director of the Department of Education and Training said: The arrangement of schools and classes after the merger of commune and district administrative units is not mechanical, but depends on the size of the class and the convenience of students' travel conditions. It is possible to arrange 2 levels of primary and secondary schools into 1 school and it is possible to arrange the same level into 1 school; secondary schools with a size of 12 classes or more will still have both schools of the same level in 1 administrative unit.
The Director of the Department of Education and Training emphasized: For a long time, we have been used to each locality and each level of education having only one school, however, it is normal for a locality to have many schools in one level of education. The responsibility of the Department of Education and Training will be to coordinate with localities to implement the arrangement after ensuring suitability and meeting the rights of students.
