Urging land clearance for North-South expressway section through Hoang Mai town

Previously, the inspection team led by the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and related departments and branches inspected the construction of resettlement areas in Quynh Trang and Quynh Vinh communes - these are two resettlement areas built by the People's Committee of Hoang Mai town to relocate households affected during the construction process.North-South Expressway.

The Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee listened to a report on the progress of the construction of the resettlement area in Quynh Trang commune. Photo: Tien Dong

In Quynh Trang commune, the resettlement area has an area of ​​2 hectares, and has completed about 60% of the work so far, and is expected to be eligible for land allocation to affected households by October 30, 2021. The resettlement area in Quynh Vinh commune has an area of ​​10 hectares, and has completed about 98% of the work so far, and is eligible for allocation to households for use.

The North-South Expressway in the East section through Hoang Mai Town has a total length of 9.985km, passing through the two communes of Quynh Vinh (4.62km long) and Quynh Trang (5.365km long). Of which, the section passing through agricultural land and other land is about 8.985km long and through residential areas is 1km long. The total affected land area is about 82.49ha, of which Quynh Vinh commune is affected 41.04ha and Quynh Trang 40.56ha. There are 1,518 households affected, including residential land and agricultural land, of which Quynh Vinh has 807 households, Quynh Trang has 711 households.

Up to now, the People's Committee of Hoang Mai Town has also cleared 63.85/65.09 hectares of agricultural land, reaching 98.1%. Residential land and garden land have also cleared 5.6 hectares/6.41 hectares, reaching 87.36%.

Resettlement areas in Quynh Vinh and Quynh Trang communes are currently under construction. Photo: Tien Dong

According to the report ofPeople's Committee of Hoang Mai TownThe reason why the compensation for land acquisition and clearance has not been completed up to now is that in Quynh Trang commune, there are 11 households whose residential land was confiscated by the People's Committee of Quynh Trang commune illegally sold in 1997. There are receipts from the People's Committee of the commune but there are no land allocation records, no area of ​​allocation, and no proof of the amount paid in full according to regulations, causing difficulties in compiling compensation and support records. Although the Provincial People's Committee and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment have issued documents directing and guiding, the determination of the collection level for land use according to the provisions of the 1993 Land Law is not possible. Currently, the People's Committee of Hoang Mai town is establishing a Working Group to inspect and verify.

Besides, some households have approved the compensation and support plan but have not received the money and are petitioning.

The Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee inspected and highly appreciated the infrastructure of the resettlement area in Quynh Vinh commune. Photo: Tien Dong

Currently, the People's Committee of Hoang Mai Town has also received complaints from households regarding the determination of specific land prices for compensation for residential land, garden land and specific land prices for resettlement land allocation.

Some households have requested to reclaim and compensate for land within the traffic safety corridor and the remaining land area outside the traffic safety corridor but has an oblique shape and cannot be built on. Currently, the People's Committee of Hoang Mai Town is also waiting for instructions from the Provincial People's Committee to take the next steps.

After the field inspection, the working delegation of the Provincial People's Committee led by Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee worked to discuss ways to resolve related problems. Photo: Tien Dong

In addition, there is currently a local enterprise licensed by the Provincial People's Committee to exploit the land fill mine in the Chanh Hill area, Quynh Vinh commune with an area of ​​9.86 hectares. Currently, this enterprise has been leased land by the Provincial People's Committee for the first phase (June 27, 2019) with an area of ​​3.69/9.86 hectares. When the Expressway Construction Project was formed, it affected 0.8 hectares of leased land and 0.2 hectares of the area that had been granted a mine but had not yet been leased land of the enterprise. The People's Committee of Hoang Mai Town also sent a document requesting the Provincial People's Committee to allow the exchange of the affected 3.8 hectares of mine to a location adjacent to the granted mine. However, the Law on Minerals does not have regulations on exchanging part of the mine area. Therefore, the People's Committee of Hoang Mai Town is currently confused in preparing compensation and support documents.

Mr. Nguyen Huu An - Chairman of Hoang Mai Town People's Committee presented some problems in site clearance for the expressway project passing through Hoang Mai Town. Photo: Tien Dong

Not to mention, currently, some special cemeteries located in the project area are complicated in the work of counting and compiling compensation records, unable to apply the compensation unit price but have to build a separate estimate; the clans have not agreed on the established estimated price. Due to the frequent stormy weather, the construction unit has difficulty in speeding up the progress of infrastructure construction of Quynh Trang resettlement areas, flood discharge sluices of the main canal of Vuc Mau...

At this meeting, the People's Committee of Hoang Mai Town also requested the Provincial People's Committee to allow the reclamation and compensation according to regulations for the area located within the highway traffic safety corridor; allow the reclamation and compensation of the entire plot of land if the remaining part of the plot of land is located outside the traffic safety corridor with a diagonal shape, many edges, small area, not ensuring the construction of houses and stable life.

Workers are completing the final items at the resettlement area in Quynh Vinh commune. Photo: Tien Dong

The town also proposed that the Provincial People's Committee direct and guide localities to handle problems related to complaints about land compensation and resettlement prices not being determined at the same time.

The People's Committee of Hoang Mai Town also requested the Department of Natural Resources and Environment and the Department of Finance to guide the preparation of compensation and support records for the area of ​​mineral exploitation land recovered from the enterprise. It is recommended that Project Management Board 6 hand over the highway traffic safety corridor landmarks so that the locality has a basis to extract and measure additional cadastral maps of the land to serve the preparation of compensation records for affected households within the traffic safety corridor if the Provincial People's Committee agrees with the above policy.

Mr. Pham Van Toan - Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment said that the local Compensation Council for Land Acquisition and Clearance needs to have specific proposals to have a basis for resolution. Photo: Tien Dong

Responding to the concerns of the People's Committee of Hoang Mai Town, Mr. Pham Van Toan - Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment said that it is necessary to clearly check the reserves and area of ​​the mine that has been recovered by the unit to have a basis for handling. Regarding the request to adjust the price at the current time of the households, according to the regulations on compensation prices implemented at the time of land recovery, land allocation, and change of land use purpose when implementing compensation. However, if after approval but not implemented, the price adjustment needs to be proposed for consideration by the local Compensation Council for Land Acquisition and Clearance, and the price must be reviewed at different times to have a basis for decision.

Mr. Nguyen Duc An - Deputy Director of the Department of Transport said that Hoang Mai Town needs to clearly identify the difficulties and problems to gradually resolve them, and soon hand over the site to the construction contractor. Photo: Tien Dong

Mr. Nguyen Trung Long - Head of Price and Public Asset Management Department of the Department of Finance said that if it is mandatory to adjust the price at the place of departure, it must be adjusted completely, but if adjusting the land price at the resettlement site, the scope will be narrower and the authority belongs to the local Compensation and Site Clearance Council.

Conclusion at the working session,Comrade Le Hong Vinhalso shared the difficulties of the local government, the time of land acquisition for the North-South expressway was also the time when the People's Committee of Hoang Mai town was perfecting its leadership apparatus, the natural disaster and epidemic situation had affected the progress of land acquisition and resettlement area construction.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh requested the local government of Hoang Mai town to be resolute in handling the problems and determined not to let the progress continue to be delayed as required by the Government. Photo: Tien Dong

However, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also requested that agencies, departments and branches in Hoang Mai town need to be more determined in completing site clearance, focusing on removing difficulties, helping people speed up the handover progress, and not allowing delays to continue to occur.

The locality needs to mobilize the entire political system to propagate and encourage people to hand over the site as soon as possible. For the construction of resettlement areas, it is necessary to speed up the progress to move people to new places and hand over the site to the construction unit. Ensure that the progress is on schedule, by November 31, 2021, the handover of the site assigned by the Government must be completed.