Con Cuong: More than 4,800 people's 'red books' are pending

From Chi Khe, Yen Khe…

In February 2023, the People's Committee of Con Cuong district directed the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to establish a Working Group to conduct inspections in Chi Khe and Yen Khe communes; work with the Branch of the Land Registration Office on receiving and appraising new application files.Certificate of Land Use Rights(land use right certificate) for people after map measurement.

In Chi Khe commune, the Working Group determined that the consulting unit had completed 2,860 registration dossiers (1,013 residential land dossiers, 1,847 agricultural land dossiers); the Commune People's Committee had organized the review, and 2,566 dossiers were eligible (796 residential land dossiers, 1,770 agricultural land dossiers). After that, the Commune People's Committee had handed over to the Branch of the Land Registration Office for appraisal, however, 640 dossiers were returned (the Commune People's Committee had not yet provided dossiers and appraisal documents). As of May 31, 2019, the number of dossiers eligible to sign land use right certificates in Chi Khe commune was 1,926 (571 residential land use right certificates, 1,355 agricultural land use right certificates); of which, 1,028 households and individuals were newly granted; 809 individual households were granted new certificates. Up to now, the District Land Registration Office Branch has coordinated with the People's Committee of Chi Khe Commune to organize 2 rounds of granting land use right certificates (one round in 2019; one round on October 29, 2022). In the round on October 29, 2022, the People's Committee of Chi Khe Commune only coordinated with the Branch of the Land Registration Office to check and support the recovery of land use right certificates, but did not have access to the list and number of land use right certificates issued.

Cover of the article "Around the issue of people's red books being "suspended" in Con Cuong" on Nghe An Electronic Newspaper.

Also through inspection, on October 27, 2020, the Branch of the Land Registration Office handed over to the People's Committee of Chi Khe commune 879 land use right certificates (360 residential land use right certificates, 519 agricultural land use right certificates), requesting to give them to the people.

However, the People's Committee of the commune only granted 94 land use right certificates to households and individuals in the area. By August 2022, the People's Committee of Chi Khe commune returned 785 land use right certificates to the Branch of the Land Registration Office for management.

For Yen Khe commune, there are a total of 3,205 sets of declaration and registration dossiers for granting land use right certificates (1,536 residential land dossiers, 1,699 agricultural land dossiers); the total number of dossiers received by the Commune People's Committee from the consulting unit and the review organization is 1,639 sets (799 residential land dossiers, 840 agricultural land dossiers). The review results show that 1,590 dossiers are eligible (754 residential land dossiers, 836 agricultural land dossiers), 49 dossiers are not eligible. Through checking the copy of the land use right certificate issuance book in the commune, it is determined that by June 30, 2022, there were 1,473 land use right certificates of households and individuals in Yen Khe commune signed.

The District Land Registration Office Branch and Yen Khe Commune People's Committee have organized 3 times to grant land use right certificates to people in 9 villages and hamlets (2 times in 2019, the last time on June 30, 2022). A total of 833 land use right certificates have been granted (333 certificates of land use right for residential land, 500 certificates of land use right for agricultural land).

There are still 640 land use right certificates that have not been given to people (60 residential land use right certificates, 580 agricultural land use right certificates) that have been handed over to the Branch of the Land Registration Office for management.

Ms. Luong Thi Nho (residing in Lien Dinh village, Chi Khe commune, Con Cuong district) recounts the event of being granted a land use right certificate. Photo: NL

Through inspection, the Working Group assessed that the People's Committee of Chi Khe commune had shortcomings such as not being able to provide documents proving the work of reviewing documents for 2,860 cases in the commune; not being able to provide information on archiving documents of ineligible documents reviewed by the People's Committee of the commune and ineligible documents returned by the Branch of the Land Registration Office.

The work of reviewing and understanding the situation and reasons why households and individuals have not been granted certificates in the commune has not received due attention. Currently, the reasons for each case have not been classified.

With the People's Committee of Yen Khe commune, there are limitations: the number of land use right certificates granted to households and individuals in the area is still low, the number of land use right certificates in backlog is high (640/1,473 certificates, accounting for 43.45%); the number of sessions of the Land Registration Office to grant land use right certificates is still low. From June 30, 2022 to now, there have been no more sessions to grant land use right certificates in the commune. When people have a need, the People's Committee of the commune will guide them directly to the Branch of the District Land Registration Office to receive them. The People's Committee of the commune has not reviewed, grasped the situation, and specifically classified the number of certificates in backlog; has not coordinated well with the consulting unit, the Branch of the Land Registration Office to grasp the situation and progress of granting land use right certificates to people in the area as well as the number of ineligible files that were returned, leading to the fact that at the time of inspection, the People's Committee of the commune did not have specific data.

Document No. 267/UBND-TNMT dated March 20, 2023 of the People's Committee of Con Cuong district, including the content of the recommendation to the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee to consider inspecting the Party Cell of the Land Registration Office Branch.

…to the Branch of the Land Registration Office

Regarding the Con Cuong District Land Registration Office Branch, when the Working Group requested to work, they only agreed to work on the work of granting land use right certificates; they did not agree to work on the work of receiving, appraising, handing over... The reason given was that this work had ended, there was a lot of professional work so there was no time to search for documents.

Through work, it was determined that in the entire district, there were a total of 16,226 land use right certificates signed to be granted to land users. From September 2018 to October 2022, the Branch of the Land Registration Office issued a number of documents and plans on granting land use right certificates to people in communes in the district. In addition, it coordinated with the People's Committees of communes to grant land use right certificates to people in villages and hamlets. However, up to now, only 11,367 land use right certificates have been granted; there are still 4,859 land use right certificates outstanding.

The working group assessed that the Branch of the Land Registration Office has shortcomings and limitations in the work of granting land use right certificates to people. Specifically, the number of ungranted land use right certificates is large; the number of organizations that have granted land use right certificates to people is limited. The Branch has not coordinated well with the People's Committees of communes to organize reviews, grasp the list, clarify the reasons of each household and individual in order to promptly propose measures and solutions to complete the task of granting land use right certificates to people; the work of handing over land use right certificates to the People's Committees of communes to give to people in some localities does not have a handover record.

Document No. 612/VPĐK-ĐK&CGCN dated March 30, 2023 of the Provincial Land Registration Office requests district-level land registration office branches to report on the status of granting land use right certificates.

In addition, the Branch of the Land Registration Office has not been good at implementing the requirements of Official Dispatch No. 1134/UBND.TN dated September 22, 2022 of the District People's Committee. Specifically, the District People's Committee requested the Branch to develop a plan to grant outstanding certificates to households and individuals in the district, and must complete it by October 31, 2022 at the latest.

Although the Branch has implemented the plan (issued documents and implementation plans, and distributed them in communes), there are still many land use right certificates remaining...

Speaking with Nghe An Newspaper reporters on April 4, a representative of the Con Cuong District People's Committee said that the Land Registration Office Branch refused to work with the Working Group on receiving, appraising, handing over..., only working on the content of granting land use right certificates. In addition, he also said that the reason for not continuing to grant land use right certificates was because the communes did not request it, and that the number of cases eligible for granting was assessed to be very few.

Therefore, the Working Group requested the District People's Committee to direct and propose competent agencies to inspect the work of receiving, appraising, handing over, and storing newly issued and renewed land use right certificates; especially inspecting the work of storing and handing over documents, and cases that do not meet the conditions for granting land use right certificates at the Branch of the Land Registration Office.

Ms. Luong Thi Nho (residing in Lien Dinh village, Chi Khe commune, Con Cuong district) and the Land Use Rights Certificate signed in 2018 but received in 2022. Photo: Nhat Lan

The representative of the Con Cuong District People's Committee also added that recently, the leaders of the Provincial Land Registration Office had worked with the Branch of the Land Registration Office. The content of the work was to rectify the activities of this unit, in addition, to guide the resolution of some problems, and request a report explaining the backlog of 4,859 signed land use right certificates. Regarding the Inspection Committee of the Con Cuong District Party Committee, after being assigned the task by the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee, an Inspection Team was established and the decision was announced.Check the Party Cell of the Land Registration Office./.

Nhat Lan