After a period of preparation, Nui Beo Coal Joint Stock Company, under the Vietnam National Coal - Mineral Industries Group (TKV), plans to start construction of an 11-storey apartment building in Ha Tu ward, Quang Ninh province, to provide food and accommodation for miners far from home,
The construction location of this workers' apartment building is on the land of Nui Beo Coal Joint Stock Company and is located near office 2 as well as the coal mining site of this company.
According to the representative of Nui Beo Coal Joint Stock Company, the planned construction area of this apartment complex is more than 5,429 m2, of which the land for construction is nearly 1,900 m2, the rest is mainly land for trees, internal traffic...
The workers' apartment building has a floor area of over 1,700 m2, including 1 basement, 11 upper floors and 1 attic, with about 400 rooms, for over 1,000 workers and laborers.
The project has a total investment of about 200 billion VND, expected to be completed in 2027.
Currently, in order to create conditions for underground workers to have accommodation and live after work, while waiting to build new apartments for workers, Nui Beo Coal Joint Stock Company has rented and renovated the 7-storey building of the Coal - Mineral College into a collective housing area to serve the needs of eating, living and living of over 300 underground workers and trainees. Each room is arranged for 4 people with equipment to meet living needs.
Meanwhile, this company currently has over 3,300 employees, of which the number of ethnic minority workers in the Northwestern provinces working at the construction sites and workshops in the company is about 920 people. Thus, the current collective housing area only meets a small part of the needs of workers, especially thousands of workers from other provinces outside Quang Ninh province. While "set up and get a living" is one of the top solutions today to attract and retain miners.
TKV currently has over 96,000 employees working in many industries in 41 provinces and cities across the country, of which over 74,000 employees have heavy and toxic jobs with over 31,000 employees working in the tunnel, mainly in Quang Ninh.
According to TKV's statistics, currently, more than 20 units in the industry have invested in about 80 worker housing areas, corresponding to 5,000 apartments, providing accommodation for more than 17,000 people.
However, most of them are still apartments for single miners, without apartment buildings for households, so many miners' families still have to rent houses, with very low living conditions, affecting their health, life and reducing the quality of labor.
In addition to workers and laborers returning home during the day (with transportation vehicles), there are still more than 7,000 people renting houses outside, because the units have not arranged enough houses for workers.
