Quickly resolve problems in Bai Dinh hamlet

(Baonghean)Bai Dinh hamlet is located on the alluvial land at the end of Hung Lam commune, Hung Nguyen district. However, this residential hamlet is under the administrative management of Duc Quang commune, Duc Tho district, Ha Tinh province. This is the cause of confusion and inconsistency in residential management, causing more than 30 Bai Dinh households to worry about being forgotten.



Mr. Nguyen Suu - a resident of Bai Dinh hamlet.

Mr. Nguyen Suu, a resident of Bai Dinh hamlet, humorously said: "Maybe we should be proud because Bai Dinh hamlet is located in 3 communes, 2 districts and 2 provinces." The 3 communes are Hung Lam, Hung Phu, Duc Quang; 2 districts are Duc Tho and Hung Nguyen, and 2 provinces are Nghe An and Ha Tinh. Living on the middle bank of Lam river, the north bank belongs to Hung Nguyen district and the south bank belongs to Duc Tho district, so Bai Dinh is almost like an oasis.

According to Mr. Nguyen Van Hao - Chairman of Hung Lam Commune People's Committee, Bai Dinh people have been encroaching and moving to live in the administrative boundary under the management of Hung Lam Commune since the 80s of the 20th century. The reason for this is because before that, Duc Quang Commune had over 40 hectares of land encroached on the alluvial area of ​​Hung Lam Commune. From encroachment to encroachment. Mr. Chu Dinh Luu - Chairman of Duc Quang Commune People's Committee, Duc Tho District also said that encroachment is a violation of the law, but the people of Ha Tinh province residing in Bai Dinh area has a history of many generations. In 1945, there were 7 households of Co Hamlet, Quang Du Village, Duc Quang Commune residing and living here. Through research in Bai Dinh hamlet, people said that they officially moved their residence in 1985. "We came here following the policy of migrating to the alluvial land of Nghe Tinh province (at that time the province had not been separated), but now no one cares," said Mr. Nguyen Suu, a resident of Bai Dinh hamlet, shaking his head in disappointment.

Currently, 32 households with 104 people in Bai Dinh hamlet are cultivating and growing crops on an area of ​​about 60 hectares. According to the regulations of Duc Quang commune, Bai Dinh people are cultivating and producing on two types of land: annual land and contracted land. Annual land is garden land, unsteady reclaimed land because it depends on the alluvial and eroding nature of the river; contracted land is land for long-term production. Accordingly, each person is divided 1.6 sao of contracted land and must annually pay a tax equivalent to 24 kg of rice/person. For annual production land, households participating in production will have to pay from 8 kg to 13 kg of peanuts/sao (depending on the land location).



House of a resident of Bai Dinh hamlet.

In addition to agricultural taxes, Bai Dinh residents also have to pay four other funds: national security, children, the poor, and health. All obligations are performed in Duc Quang commune. Mr. Nguyen Van Dong said: "Although they are citizens of Duc Quang commune, Bai Dinh households do not receive anything from the local government. People's daily life is completely self-sufficient. To carry out administrative procedures, ask for a mother's seal, register a birth or death, everyone has to go to the other side of the river. That's why each household equips itself with a boat to both fulfill its obligations to the State and prevent annual floods. However, people's travel has encountered many difficulties, especially during the rainy and stormy season." Mr. Le Xuan Vy - head of Bai Dinh hamlet said, if they want to go to the commune without going by boat, people only have to travel over 30km around Ben Thuy bridge to get to the other side.

Although they are citizens with registered residence in Ha Tinh province, children of Bai Dinh residents are studying in Hung Lam commune.

To solve the problems in Bai Dinh residential area, the authorities of Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces once had a policy of merging the residential area into Hung Lam commune. However, Bai Dinh households did not agree. They were afraid that the area of ​​cultivated land would be reduced due to re-division when merging. Up to now, there are still two opposing opinions in the residential area about merging into Hung Lam or keeping it as before. In fact, for a long time, because they could not fully exploit the land fund, Bai Dinh residents rented it to many households in Hung Lam and Hung Phu communes for production, with an average of 500,000 VND per sao.

According to Mr. Nguyen Van Hao, the local government's viewpoint is: if the province requires, the commune will comply with receiving and managing Bai Dinh hamlet, but in reality, the commune does not want to receive it. Because this hamlet is isolated outside the dike, far from the administrative area, the commune cannot handle it during the rainy season. On the other hand, Mr. Chu Dinh Luu said that because the people have not yet agreed to become citizens of Nghe An province, the commune has no other choice. Also according to Mr. Luu, since the National Program on New Rural Areas, Bai Dinh hamlet is no longer an independent administrative organization but has merged into Trung Thanh hamlet and become a Production Team of this hamlet. However, in essence, all activities and living conditions of Bai Dinh remain unchanged. The hamlet has 2 party members and is still operating together with the Trung Thanh hamlet Party Cell as before. There are no other mass organizations. Perhaps the only good thing that Bai Dinh residents have enjoyed so far from the local government's policy is that they do not have to pay any fees to implement the New Rural Program in Trung Thanh village on the other side of the river.

To resolve the problems in Bai Dinh residential area, the current issue is that local authorities of Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces need to have a consensus on policy; based on specific conditions to propagate and mobilize people to carry out the merger, both ensuring the rights of each household and creating conditions to help local authorities manage the population well.

Dao Tuan