Nearly 1,000 cases of dike encroachment
The Dong Bac Lieu sea dike route is nearly 53km long, passing through 3 localities: Bac Lieu city, Hoa Binh district and Dong Hai district. Built with a dike top of +4.5m high, a dike surface of 9m wide and 24 connecting bridges, this dike acts as a protective boundary for tens of thousands of hectares of agricultural land, aquaculture, protective forests and residential areas inside the dike.
According to the Department of Agriculture and Environment, from 2010 to present, the entire East Sea dike has recorded 975 cases of violations of the dike protection corridor. Of which, there were 709 cases of violations of the corridor inside the dike. Bac Lieu city has 76 violations, Hoa Binh district has 233 cases; Dong Hai district has 400 violations.
There were 266 cases of violations of the sea corridor (protection forests). The main violations are the construction of houses, temporary works, and tents for sale in the dike protection corridor area. Some households have even built solid houses in protective forests and in the dike protection corridor area.
At the place where the violations were inspected, the inspection team requested the Dyke Management Department to coordinate with local authorities and relevant units to make records, propose solutions to handle them from the beginning, prevent further violations from arising and propose handling of violations of the law on dykes.
Although creating conditions for businesses and households to have a road, they are not allowed to build support works on the dike roof. Business households and households are forced to dismantle violating constructions and houses to restore the original state to the dike protection corridor...
Migration project has not received high consensus
To relocate people out of the forest, creating conditions for households (including people living along the dike), in 2014, the Bac Lieu Province Protective Forest Resettlement and Resettlement Project was implemented. The project has arranged for 988 households (3,984 people subject to relocation).
Phase 1 of the project arranges 403 resettlement plots for households within the criteria for self-construction of houses. Of which, Bac Lieu city has 20 foundations (each foundation is 8.33m wide, 60m long), Hoa Binh district has 325 foundations, Dong Hai district has 58 foundations (each foundation is 10m wide, 50m long).
However, up to now, the foundation is too low, so people have not been able to build houses; social welfare projects such as schools, community cultural houses, water supply works... have been completed since 2018 but the project owner has not yet handed over to the People's Committee of Dong Hai district for exploitation and use.
To complete phase 1, the project has been invested with more than 237 billion VND. Of which, the central capital is 173.5 billion VND, the locality contributes 63.5 billion VND.
This amount, the investor (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development) has disbursed all capital to complete the project of leveling the ground, paving sidewalks, building roads, water supply works, power down, installing public lighting systems and other social welfare items.
Due to unsynchronized infrastructure, people have not agreed to move into residential areas and resettle to live.
The People's Committee of Bac Lieu province requested the People's Committees of districts and cities with dykes passing through to improve management responsibilities, promote propaganda of laws on dykes and thoroughly handle violations.
The Department of Justice is assigned to coordinate in guiding legal procedures for handling violations; the Provincial Police take the lead in ensuring security and order in the dike area, promptly detecting and handling violations.
While waiting for the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to approve the decentralization of the East Sea dike as a level III dike, the province will base on current regulations to handle violations in the field of land use and construction order.
