Proposal to auction the land of the village cultural house after the merger to have funds for new construction

Regarding the handling of cultural houses of blocks and hamlets after the merger, delegate Ha Xuan Quang - Delegate Group of Dien Chau district said: After the merger, cultural houses of hamlets are both redundant and lacking because the number of hamlets has decreased but the area and facilities are lacking due to the increase in the number of households.

Overview of the discussion session at the hall at the second session of the 18th Provincial People's Council. Photo: Thanh Cuong

"Voters are wondering, if we want to build new ones now, where will we get the money?", delegate Ha Xuan Quang expressed and said that voters proposed that the Provincial People's Committee and departments, branches and sectors should issue a policy to handle the situation in the form of opening a campus for further construction; and in places where it is not possible to open a campus but the land for the cultural house is suitable for residential land use planning, then the policy should be to auction the land for residential land sale. The entire auction fee will be used to support 100% of the blocks and hamlets to build new cultural houses.

According to the direction of the Chairman of the Session, answering this issue, Deputy Director of the Department of Finance Nguyen Thanh Tung said: In 2019, after the policy of merging communes, hamlets, villages and hamlets, the Department of Finance issued a document guiding units to review and develop a plan to arrange real estate assets after the merger.

Delegate Ha Xuan Quang speaks. Photo: Thanh Cuong

The representative of the Department of Finance said that since then, the unit has had 4 more guiding documents to implement this content. Up to now, in Nghe An province, 18/21 district-level units have reported to the Department of Finance.

On June 28, 2021, the Ministry of Finance issued an official dispatch on guidelines for the arrangement and management of assets after the merger. The Provincial People's Committee continued to hold a meeting last July on this issue.

Deputy Director of the Department of Finance Nguyen Thanh Tung said: The files and documents reporting to district-level units are almost all just reporting data, while the files and documents attached are very lacking. This is one of the difficulties in handling the arrangement of real estate assets after the merger. Along with that, in the districts, there are some real estate assets under the management of the Central Government, so the arrangement process needs to seek the Central Government's opinion.

Comrade Nguyen Thanh Tung - Deputy Director of the Department of Finance answered delegates' opinions at the meeting on the afternoon of August 12. Photo: Thanh Cuong

The Department of Finance has reported these difficulties to the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee; and at the most recent meeting, the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee assigned tasks; accordingly, the complete documents will be submitted for arrangement this August, and the districts with missing documents will continue to be urged to supplement and complete them as a basis for the Department of Finance to advise the Provincial People's Committee.

Regarding the headquarters of the hamlet cultural house after the merger, in response to the voters' proposal to organize an auction of hamlet cultural houses to build new cultural houses suitable for the population size after the merger, the Deputy Director of the Department of Finance said that the Department would accept it to advise the Provincial People's Committee on the general handling of real estate assets after the merger of communes, hamlets, villages and hamlets.

Thanh Duy