Many shortcomings in the suspended planning village
As Lao Dong has reported, for more than 20 years, the Ky Ha Port Administrative Area project, Nui Thanh (also known as the Free Trade Zone Phase 1) has been at a standstill, leaving nearly 30 households stuck in the project area, suffering from poor infrastructure conditions.
Mr. Le Tan Ngon and his wife (93 years old) have lived in a dilapidated house in Trung Toan village, Tam Quang commune, Nui Thanh district for nearly 40 years. Due to the planning of the Ky Ha Port Administrative Area project, the dilapidated house has only been repaired and not rebuilt. Many generations of the family have had to live together in the cramped, cracked house.
Responding to Lao Dong newspaper, Mr. Phan Vinh Tien - Chairman of Tam Quang Commune People's Committee admitted that the suspended planning has made people's lives extremely difficult, with a lack of traffic and electricity infrastructure due to lack of investment... Many families have large areas of land, many children living together in one house, their houses are increasingly degraded, forcing them to build houses (illegally - PV).
“Even though the government knows that the houses are not built according to the law, they still accept the construction so that people can have housing. The people also have a commitment that if the government implements the project in the future, they will not pay compensation, they still accept it,” said Mr. Tien.
Proposal to cancel the land acquisition decision
Regarding this project, on October 2, Mr. Le Van Sinh - Chairman of Nui Thanh District People's Committee said that he had sent a document requesting the Quang Nam Provincial People's Committee to consider canceling the land recovery decision because the project had not been implemented.
According to Nui Thanh district, in January 2008, the People's Committee of Quang Nam province issued a Decision to reclaim more than 262 hectares of land in Tam Quang and Tam Nghia communes of this district, to hand over the land to the Chu Lai Open Economic Zone Management Board (now the Management Board of Economic Zones and Industrial Parks of Quang Nam province) for management and use, to build the Free Trade Zone Phase 1 of the Duty Free Zone Phase 1.
“In fact, it has been more than 16 years since the decision to reclaim the land was made, but the project has not been implemented. This has affected the lives and legitimate rights of the people, such as: not being granted a Certificate of Land Use Rights, dividing plots, changing purposes, transferring rights, mortgaging land use rights, building houses... causing resentment among the people.
In order to ensure local land management and avoid wasting land resources, Nui Thanh district has proposed that the province consider canceling the land recovery decision, in order to have a basis for infrastructure investment and ensure the legitimate rights of people in the area where the land recovery decision has been made," said Mr. Le Van Sinh.
The Ky Ha port administrative area project had a planning decision since 2003. Group 1, Trung Toan village has 50 affected households, 22 households have been relocated, currently 28 households are still stuck, due to the prolonged project - according to Mr. Phan Vinh Tien - Chairman of Tam Quang Commune People's Committee.
