The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council proposed to inspect and handle poor quality resettlement projects.

On the morning of September 25, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council held a session to explain a number of urgent resettlement projects out of landslide disaster areas in the province that have lasted for a long time, causing public outrage. Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the session. Photo: Mai Hoa

Also attending were Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Council: Cao Thi Hien - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee and Hoang Viet Duong - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee; members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee: Le Hong Vinh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department, Head of the Provincial People's Council's Culture and Social Affairs Department; Phan Duc Dong - Head of the Provincial People's Council's Legal Department, Secretary of the Vinh City Party Committee; leaders of the National Assembly Delegation, a number of relevant departments, branches and districts.

Many problems and limitations

The projects that the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council requested the Provincial People's Committee, departments, branches and districts to explain include:resettlement projectKhe Mu fishing village (Thanh Chuong district); emergency evacuation project to disaster and landslide areas and extremely difficult areas in Binh Chuan commune (Con Cuong district); emergency evacuation project to disaster and landslide areas in Chau Tien commune and Lien Hop commune (Quy Hop district).

At the explanation session, representatives of investors and a number of related units all affirmed that the most basic reason for the delay in project progress is the lack of capital arrangement; mainly the province's counterpart fund and other capital sources, while the central government has arranged enough capital.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee pointed out the shortcomings and limitations in the implementation of a number of resettlement projects. Photo: Mai Hoa

For example, the emergency evacuation project to the disaster and landslide areas in Chau Tien and Lien Hop communes (Quy Hop district) had a total investment of more than 23 billion VND, but the total capital allocated after 7 times was only more than 15 billion VND.

Or the project to build model residential areas for fishermen on Lam River and the particularly difficult areas of Thanh Chuong district (including 2 resettlement areas Khe Mu, Thanh Thuy commune and Trieu Duong resettlement, Thanh Lam commune) with a total investment of more than 86 billion VND, of which more than 70 billion VND has been allocated, and nearly 16 billion VND has not been allocated yet.

Emergency evacuation project for natural disaster and landslide areasand the particularly difficult area in Binh Chuan commune (Con Cuong district) was allocated 17.8 billion VND, still lacking more than 8.4 billion VND.

Director of the Department of Finance Nguyen Xuan Hai said that it is necessary to find common solutions for projects, avoiding blaming each other. Photo: Mai Hoa

However, some opinions raised at the explanation session said that for the 3 basic construction investment projects mentioned above, the allocated capital has reached over 70 - 80% of the total investment and for construction investment projects, when allocated with this capital ratio, the project has basically been completed and can be put into use.

However, in reality, especially the Khe Mu resettlement project (Thanh Chuong), many investment items are unfinished and now degraded. This shows that the implementation process has existing problems and shortcomings.

Deputy Director of the Department of Planning and Investment Nguyen Huu Mao commented that there were problems in the implementation of the Khe Mu project (Thanh Chuong), not due to lack of capital. Photo: Mai Hoa

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that the process of project establishment, determination of scale and capital sources were not clear, leading to the project having to be adjusted many times and being prolonged.

On the other hand, during the implementation process, the responsibilities of investors and some related departments and branches are not sufficient to promptly resolve arising difficulties, especially capital allocation.

In addition, some opinions also analyzed that during the implementation process, the investor has not clearly identified the projects and items that need to be prioritized, so there are projects where people lack land for production because there is no compensation money to get land for people or there is a lack of bridges to serve people's travel in the emergency evacuation project in natural disaster and landslide areas and especially difficult areas in Binh Chuan commune (Con Cuong district)...

Chairman of Thanh Chuong District People's Committee Trinh Van Nha proposed that the province allocate the remaining capital for the Ke Mu project (Thanh Chuong). Photo: Mai Hoa

Need to inspect and handle responsibility for poor quality projects

Concluding the explanation session, comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council emphasized: All resettlement projects were identified as urgent but have not been completed for 8-10 years, the investment projects are unfinished; some unfinished investment items have degraded, while the living conditions of the people are still facing many difficulties.

From the reality, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Council requested the Provincial People's Committee to direct a comprehensive review of all slow-progressing resettlement projects in the whole province, on that basis, re-determine which projects are really urgent and which priority construction items to have concentrated solutions; at the same time, review the completed works and items in each project, conduct quality inspection and put them into use, avoiding waste.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council requested the Provincial People's Committee to direct the inspection of projects to handle specific responsibilities for investors of poor quality projects. Photo: Mai Hoa

The Provincial People's Committee also needs to directinspect projectsto handle specific responsibilities for investors of poor quality projects; have a master plan to integrate central capital sources and balance provincial budgets to complete projects.

Regarding each specific project, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Xuan Son requested the Provincial People's Committee to direct the investor to re-evaluate the overall Khe Mu resettlement project (Thanh Chuong), including households that need to be relocated, thereby re-determining the scale and urgency of the project, prioritizing the allocation of the remaining capital to complete the project, associated with acceptance and settlement of completed items and works put into use.

Regarding the emergency evacuation project for natural disaster, landslide and extremely difficult areas in Binh Chuan commune (Con Cuong district), it is recommended that the Provincial People's Committee add the Khe Choi bridge project to the investment portfolio to serve people's travel and arrange production land for resettled people.