Mountain people donate land, hire bulldozers to open roads

(Baonghean.vn) - In order to complete the criteria for building rural roads, people of Tho Hop commune (Quy Hop - Nghe An) donated more than 1,500 square meters of land to build concrete roads according to new rural standards, 6-8 meters wide.

To build rural roads, hamlets and villages have organized many meetings to propagate and mobilize people to donate land to open a road from the intersection of National Highway 48C in Tho Son hamlet to Coc Mam hamlet with a total length of more than 600m.

This is a hamlet that is always cut off during the rainy season. Every year, the people have to contribute bamboo to build bridges 4-6 times due to floods.

People of Tho Hop commune (Quy Hop) agreed to donate land to build rural roads. Photo: Thu Huong

Previously, in November 2016, the State invested more than 18 billion VND in Coc Mam hamlet to build a bridge. The bridge was designed in the form of a semi-overflow consisting of 16 spans with a length of 105m, the bridge span is 5.58m long and 7.5m wide. Currently, the bridge has been completed.

In addition, to open a road that meets new rural standards with a width of 6m - 8m, recently, Tho Hop commune has actively promoted and mobilized people to move fences, cut down trees... In Tho Son hamlet alone, there are 17 households on the route that need to donate land to open the road; during the mobilization process, they received the consent of the people; 15/17 households agreed to donate 2m of land on each side, depending on the old roadbed that passes through each household.

Mr. Nguyen Van Khue in Tho Son hamlet said: "If we want a wide, straight road for easy travel and trade, we have to sacrifice some land. When the local authorities persuaded us, we immediately agreed."

Coc Mam Bridge in Tho Hop Commune is being completed. Photo: Thu Huong

Along the entire route, in Tho Son and Coc Mam hamlets, 19 households have cut down hundreds of valuable trees and donated more than 1,500 square meters of land for the contractor to build Coc Mam bridge to pour concrete roads according to new rural standards.

According to Ms. Truong Thi Giang - Chairwoman of Tho Hop Commune People's Committee, during the mobilization process, we also encountered some difficulties, but when analyzing the pros and cons, the households highly agreed.

With the support of the people, the road has been widened, the construction unit is speeding up the progress of leveling the ground, pouring concrete according to new rural road standards. When the road is opened from Coc Mam bridge to Tho Son, it will help people travel easily, meeting the travel needs of hundreds of households on the other side of Dinh River.

Thu Huong