Pre-summation Meeting about 4-Year Implementation of the 8th Term Dong Nai Party Committee’s Resolution on Compensation, Support and Resettlement Policies

The meeting was attended by Member of the Central Party and Secretary of Dong Nai Party Committee Tran Dinh Thanh, Vice Secretary of Dong Nai Party Committee and Chairperson of Dong Nai People’s Committee Dinh Quoc Thai.

The summation report at the meeting shows that the province has implemented compensation, support, and resettlement policies towards 940 investment projects on an area of 23,397.2 hectares since 2007.

Up to now, the province has completed the implementation of compensation, support, and resettlement for 412 projects on a site clearance area of 4,542.7 hectares and the total spendings hit over VND3 trillion for 17,474 households. The compensation is being made for 528 projects on an area of ​​18,854.5 ha.

Regarding resettlement, the province has 4,668 households to arrange resettlement.

Up to now arrange resettlement for 2,384 households, reaching 51.1%.

Building resettlement areas for those whose land are expropriated is the requisite and plays an essential role in enhancing the progress of site clearance and in stabilizing people’s lives.

From 2007 to 2010, the province allocated land to eight projects (66.12 hectares), and is expropriating 278.74 ha (10 projects) for site clearance.

The results indicate that compensation, support, and resettlement are conducted mainly in such regions as Bien Hoa, Long Thanh, Nhon Trach, Trang Bom, and so on, where major road links meet, and where a great pace of urbanization, industrialization is maintained.

Nevertheless, the implementation progress of compensation, support, and resettlement in the province is slow.

Secretary of Dong Nai Party Committee Tran Dinh Thanh is addressing the meeting

Addressing the meeting, Secretary of Dong Nai Party Committee Tran Dinh Thanh concluded that after the implementation of Dong Nai Party Committee’s resolution no. 06 on compensation, support, and resettlement in the province has achieved important results. However, there remain a lot of challenges and weaknesses.

- The arrangement of resettlement areas remains low (51.1 percent).

- The cooperation between units lacks uniformity.

- The staffs in charge of compensation, support, and resettlement in many areas and in many levels of authorities have not reached requirements concerning workload.

In order to continue the implementation of compensation, support, and resettlement, Secretary of Dong Nai Party Committee asked departments, sectors, and localities to review all concerned contents so that effective measures would be taken and the Central government-related issues should be proposed to the province for consideration.

After the implementation of resettlement projects, it is necessary to take the lives of resettled households into consideration and offer employment with the aim of making sure that people’s lives will be better improved than before resettlement.

Reported by Thanh Canh, Translated by Duy Minh