Quynh Luu: What is the solution for site clearance?
(Baonghean.vn) - In Quynh Luu district, there are 22 key investment projects that need to do a good job of site clearance compensation. Among them are many large projects such as upgrading National Highway 1A; National Highway 1A to Dong Hoi deep-water port, to Thai Hoa - Nghia Dan; Dong Hoi Industrial Park...
By July 2011, not counting Dong Hoi Industrial Park and traffic projects, internal irrigation, and dams, the district will have to reclaim about 392 hectares of land, houses, and constructions to build technical infrastructure. There will be about 10,000 households affected and nearly 200 households will have to relocate to different degrees. The pressure of land reclamation, site clearance, and job creation for people whose land has been reclaimed is still a key issue that needs to be resolved.
However, the GPMB process still has shortcomings: The determination of land prices, the implementation stage... are sometimes unreasonable from the implementation stage itself. Difficulties and obstacles are manifested in determining the area, location and classification of land (residential land/garden land/agricultural land; legal and illegal land; reclaimed land and encroached land...), determining the value of assets on land and moving graves, determining compensation prices, and arranging new accommodation.
Currently, the valuation work is still inadequate, the compensation, support and resettlement policies change a lot and lack uniformity, creating major conflicts. Some projects after GPMB, slow investment implementation leaving vacant land for a long time causing waste is still a frustrating situation, even in the construction of resettlement areas... In the area of GPMB resettlement, we have only stopped at meeting the housing needs, or resettlement support without sociological analysis, but resettlement must ensure the requirements of living space, social services, technical infrastructure and livelihood issues for families.
Furthermore, land management at all levels of government still has many limitations, land encroachment and illegal land allocation still exist. The force participating in land clearance work, especially at the grassroots level, lacks depth (due to concurrent positions), which is also a pressing issue.
One issue is that capital for GPMB must be sufficient and timely. Capital creation must be implemented according to the perspective of exploiting the potential of land through promoting the policy of auctioning land use rights to create capital for infrastructure construction, and advance capital to build technical infrastructure for resettlement areas. However, this issue is easy to say but extremely difficult to implement, when we are trying to attract investment!
So what is the solution to this situation? I think the most important issue is to ensure the synchronization of mechanisms and policies close to reality. The work of preparing resettlement land funds must be proactive, reasonably redistributing the population to stabilize people's lives, regenerating income including production facilities, commercial infrastructure, culture, spirituality... creating conditions for people to soon stabilize their lives.
Nguyen Anh Tuan