These are Vo Van Kiet Primary School, Huong Duong Kindergarten, Buu 2 Hamlet Cultural House and technical infrastructure works under the Residential Area and Resettlement Project out of the old Bac Lieu Province Forest, which will be completed in 2022.
Vo Van Kiet Primary School was built with two blocks of houses, designed with 1 ground floor and 1 upper floor, with a total area of 3,700m2. Huong Duong Kindergarten was built with two blocks of houses, designed with one floor, with a total area of 3,500m2.
Why is the school finished, but not a single student? The answer is that because the school is more than 4km away from residential areas, surrounded by a shrimp pond, it is very difficult to encourage parents to send students to school.
Along with two schools, the Cultural House and the water supply station have a total area of 1,500m2. The total investment of the 3 projects is nearly 50 billion VND.
When implementing these 3 projects, the locality did not calculate or fully foresee the objective factors, leading to abandonment.
For the past 3 years, the projects have not been used and are in a state of disrepair. If we continue to remove the waste as it is now, it will be damaged in a few years, and if we want to exploit it, we will have to spend more money to repair it.
Therefore, the People's Committee of Dong Hai commune, Ca Mau province has submitted a document requesting the policy of converting all the functions of the two schools and the Cultural House into the commune's administrative center.
Based on the proposal of the People's Committee of the commune, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ca Mau province Nguyen Minh Luan requested the Department of Agriculture and Environment, the Department of Finance, and the Department of Construction to review legal regulations and the practical situation of the locality, as a basis for advising and proposing to the Provincial People's Committee to consider and handle in accordance with regulations, in order to promote the effectiveness of management and use of public assets, preventing loss, waste, and negativity.
But the problem is, the two schools have no students coming to study, the cultural house is not operating because it is far from residential areas. So, is it appropriate to convert it into a commune administrative center?
The administrative center of the government must be in the center, state employees go to work, and people come to transact smoothly. If these 3 projects are taken as commune administrative centers, it would be no different from forcing people to travel in difficulty, inconvenience and waste time.
It is also strange that many places have arranged surplus headquarters to build schools, while Ca Mau has the opposite, converting "surplus" schools into government agencies.
