On March 1st, Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee announced that it had issued a plan to arrange and stabilize emergency residents in disaster-stricken areas in the province.
The goal of the plan is to relocate households out of dangerous areas, ensuring absolute safety for life and property. The province strives to complete all technical infrastructure and essential social infrastructure of population arrangement projects before March 31.
According to the roadmap, the resettlement arrangement for households in very high-risk groups will be completed in 2026. The remaining households will be completed before 2030, depending on the ability to mobilize and balance funding sources.
After relocation, people are supported with vocational training, production technical guidance, crop and livestock conversion, and livelihood support to ensure long-term stability and reduce the risk of re-poverty.
Population arrangement is implemented flexibly according to each area. For areas with resettlement areas, existing land funds will be maximally utilized to arrange people. For areas without resettlement areas, functional agencies organize review, planning, and allocate land funds that meet the conditions to form concentrated resettlement areas; develop or adjust land use planning according to regulations, ensuring technical infrastructure and social infrastructure meet standards, creating stable and long-term residential land funds for people.
The province prioritizes relocation first of households living in areas identified as urgent, with a very high risk of landslides, flash floods, deep flooding, subsidence or having been directly and seriously affected by natural disasters, no longer ensuring safety conditions to continue living.
After that, continue to relocate according to the roadmap for households in high-risk areas, likely to be affected in the medium and long term, in order to proactively prevent, minimize damage and limit passive relocation when natural disasters occur.
Along with relocation work, the province focuses resources on building houses and handing them over to people in the form of "hand-to-hand keys". At the same time, deploying vocational training, supporting production loans, connecting businesses to create jobs, increase income, and ensure sustainable livelihoods in new homes.
For the land fund after relocation, the locality will implement compensation, support, land recovery and dismantling of houses in areas threatened by natural disasters; land use planning in accordance with the local development orientation such as planting trees, building public works, forming a disaster prevention buffer zone. Strictly prohibit returning to occupying old residences.
According to the plan, the whole province will deploy urgent relocation in 16 areas, including 13 concentrated projects and 3 interspersed plans, with 1,858 households to be relocated. Total estimated cost is more than 2,108 billion VND.
In which, the east of the province has 9 areas (7 concentrated projects, 2 interspersed plans) with 905 households, total estimated cost of more than 1,233 billion VND. The west has 7 areas (6 concentrated projects, 1 interspersed plan) with 953 households, total estimated cost of more than 875 billion VND.
