Why can't the Cua Nam Kindergarten project (Vinh City) start?
(Baonghean.vn) - Due to overcrowding and having to study at a separate school, since February 2022, the land of Cua Nam Kindergarten (old) and Cua Nam Ward Cultural House has been successfully auctioned to raise money to build a new school. However, up to now, after nearly 2 years, the new school has not been built.
Auctioning old school land to raise money to build new school
Cua Nam Kindergarten (Vinh City) was built in 2000, at 85 Phan Dinh Phung Street, on an area of 650 m2. This is the only public kindergarten in Cua Nam ward. In recent years, due to the development of population size, the need for preschool education of children in this ward has increased.
However, due to the limited area, the school cannot meet the learning needs of children in the area. The admission has not met the number of children in the area, and there is still a need to draw lots and limit the age of children when submitting applications. Before entering the 2023-2024 school year, the number of students at the school was only about 1/4 of the number of general education students (between 1,300 and 1,400 students). Notably, although there are less than 300 children, Cua Nam Kindergarten can only arrange 8 classes, and 1 class has to study at the Grade 13 Cultural House.
Faced with the school's difficulties, since 2015, the local government has submitted to the city and the provincial People's Committee to adjust the planning of Vinh Citadel Park to build a school with an area of 3,600m2.2, with 20 standard classrooms, construction funds will be taken from the auction of the old school.
On August 27, 2021, the Provincial People's Committee issued Decision No. 3161/QD.UBND on the auction of land use rights and assets attached to land for the land of the Cua Nam Ward Cultural House and Cua Nam Kindergarten with an area of 1,002.3m2.2, at address 85, Phan Dinh Phung Street. The starting price given by the Provincial People's Committee is more than 46.8 billion VND, of which the value of the Land Use Rights is more than 44.8 billion VND; the value of the property on the land paid in one time is more than 1.9 billion VND.
After many unsuccessful auctions, on February 24, 2022, Nghe An Property Auction Service Center successfully auctioned the above land. The winning bidder was Mr. VHQ, residing in Dien Chau district, with a price of more than 56.2 billion VND (nearly 10 billion VND higher than the starting price). In March 2022, Nghe An Provincial People's Committee issued a decision approving the auction result for Mr. VHQ. Currently, Mr. Q has also completed all related financial obligations.
However, nearly 2 years have passed, the construction of the new school has not yet been started. Meanwhile, nearly 300 students of Cua Nam Kindergarten are temporarily studying on the 3rd floor, rented from Hoa Thuong Company Limited, with a cost of 75 million VND/month and a 36-month lease contract.
To support Cua Nam Kindergarten, the winning bidder did not immediately demolish the old facilities but lent them to the school for the rest of the 2022-2023 school year. In the 2023-2024 school year, when the old facilities were demolished and the school had to rent another facility for study, local people learned that the auction of the old school land and the construction of the new school were not carried out in a synchronous manner. Now, children in the ward do not have a new school to study, while the local government has to spend the budget to rent a location. Not to mention, taking children to school has also become inconvenient...
The pain of makeshift schools
In the past 10 years, Cua Nam Kindergarten has always been one of the "hot spots" for enrollment, because the demand for childcare is high but the school facilities are very limited. Previously, due to the school's small area, investment and upgrading have not been carried out synchronously for a long time. In addition, due to the small area, the school lacks a campus, a playground, and not enough classrooms and minimum functional rooms to serve the teaching and learning of teachers and students. Therefore, the school did not meet the conditions to build a national standard school according to new regulations and did not meet the scale of preschool development in the area.
It is known that before the auction of the land plot at 85 Phan Dinh Phung Street, the planned area for the construction of Cua Nam Kindergarten was determined at Block 2, Cua Nam Ward. Specifically, in Decision No. 4386/QD-UBND dated October 28, 2019 of the Provincial People's Committee on approving the zoning plan at a scale of 1/2,000, Cua Nam Ward will build 2 new Kindergartens: At Block 2 (in Vinh Citadel), with an area of 3,700m2; and at block 14 with an area of 6,018.5m2.
However, according to a leader of the People's Committee of Cua Nam ward, currently,due to the 1/500 detailed planning of Vinh ancient citadel moat projectTherefore, the new school has not been built in Vinh citadel, but will choose another location. This leader also shared that renting a location for the school to teach and learn is a mandatory need.
The monthly rent of 75 million VND is paid by the city budget and the ward is only assigned the task of choosing a location to rent. Talking to us, Ms. Nguyen Thi Huong - Principal of Cua Nam Kindergarten, said: Like previous years, this school year, the school still arranges 9 classes, with 251 children. Due to the inadequate facilities, the school has not yet met national standards.
Faced with the pressure to improve the quality of teaching and learning, especially to soon meet the National standards, Ms. Huong shared: The wish of many parents and schools today is that the ward and city soon build a new school location to meet the learning and playing needs of the children. At the same time, ensure the completion of the criteria for universal education; do not let parents in the ward have to run around to find a place for their children to study at the beginning of each school year. And most of all, help the school escape the situation of having to go to school for others or study at remote locations like before.
It is known that at the 8th session held on May 31, 2023, the People's Council of Vinh City decided to add 9 works and projects to implement investment in the period of 2021 - 2025, including the project to build Cua Nam Kindergarten. More than ever, the people, local authorities and Cua Nam Kindergarten are looking forward to having a new school every day to serve the teaching and learning of children in the area. Avoid prolonging the project, causing waste of money and affecting the psychology and safety of children when having to study in substandard locations.
