Representatives of the Department of Finance clarified the plan to arrange facilities after merging communes and hamlets in Nghe An.

Comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the meeting. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Attending the meeting were comrades: Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee. Also attending were comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee; Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation.

Representing the leadership of the Department of Finance, comrade Nguyen Thanh Tung - Deputy Director of the Department of Finance affirmed: Implementing the policy of arranging public service units, commune-level administrative units and merging hamlets, Nghe An is one of the localities that is assessed to have performed well in the country.

However, after the merger, there were some shortcomings and difficulties, including the arrangement and handling of public assets after the merger, especially the hamlet cultural house which did not meet the household size, but the handling plan was slow as reflected by the provincial People's Council delegates and localities.

Comrade Nguyen Thanh Tung - Deputy Director of the Department of Finance explained and clarified the plan to arrange facilities after the merger. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Clarifying the reason for the delay in the arrangement plan, the Deputy Director of the Department of Finance said that in the past, each locality had different arrangement plans, some proposed to retain and transfer to other units for use to suit the cultural institution; some proposed to auction the old cultural house to get funding to invest in building a new cultural house after consulting with the people, after the competent authority approved the plan to arrange and handle public assets according to the auction plan, the locality will plan a new location, auction the old location to get funding for reconstruction.

On the other hand, the arrangement process encountered many difficulties, such as many land plots did not have land use right certificates, had not been measured or extracted from cadastral maps of the land plots, had not been included in the planning and land use plans for new land purposes...

Delegates attending the meeting. Photo: Thanh Cuong

From practical difficulties and problems, the Department of Finance has asked for direction from the Provincial People's Committee and issued Official Dispatch No. 2859 with instructions to resolve them in the following directions:

For housing and land facilities that propose a plan to transfer or retain for continued use without a land use right certificate or a copy of the cadastral map of the land, the unit is allowed to obtain land data on the cadastral map confirmed by the district's Department of Natural Resources and Environment and related units.

For housing and land facilities that propose a transfer plan but the land use purpose has not been adjusted to a new use purpose, the unit is allowed to propose an arrangement plan (clearly stating the reason for the transfer and the conformity with the standards and norms for using the office headquarters for the receiving unit according to regulations) and the People's Committee at the district level must have a written commitment to include it in the planning and land use plan according to the new use purpose.

The old Nam Thuong commune headquarters (Nam Dan district) is being handed over to the hamlet for management and use. Photo: Mai Hoa

Comrade Nguyen Thanh Tung also said that, in order to speed up the arrangement of management and use of public assets after the merger in the province, on July 11, 2022, the Department of Finance continued to issue Official Dispatch No. 2527 and advised the People's Committee to draft the Plan of the Provincial People's Committee on implementing the management and use of public assets after the merger of administrative units and public service units in Nghe An province.

It clearly stipulates the deadline and responsibilities of each local level, of relevant departments, branches and units to achieve the goal of completing 100% of the approval of the arrangement plan by December 31, 2022; and at the same time, implementing the arrangement plan before June 30, 2023.