A ceremony of granting land use right certificates to households in Phuoc Nghia commune was held in Tuy Phuoc district. This is the first round of the land use right certificate granting within frame of the Vietnam Land Administration Project (VLAP) in Binh Dinh. The project has a significant importance to the province and helps Binh Dinh gradually improve its land management capacity.
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Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh People’s Committee Ho Quoc Dung granted the land use right certificates to local people in Phuoc Nghia commune.
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Granting land use right certificates
The ceremony was co-organized by Binh Dinh Department of Natural Resources and Environment, provincial VLAP Management Unit (PPMU) and Tuy Phuoc district People’s Committee.
“Local residents in Phuoc Nghia in general and my family now have the actual use right of our lands. Such a big pleasure! Thank you very much the Vietnamese Communist Party, the local authorities and the PPMU,” said Phan Van Bang, a local man who has just granted a new land use right certificate.
“Without the certificate, my family had faced many difficulties,” said Phung Thi Lien. “We couldn’t mortgage our property to borrow bank credit for doing business or boosting the family’s production. Having the certificate now, my family has an opportunity to access the bank loans for the household business development.”
Binh Dinh is one of 9 provinces selected to join the project, said Director of the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment and PPMU’s head Tran Thai Nga.
The total investment for Binh Dinh is US$12.135 million, in which US$8.915 million is from the WB and the rest is from the local budget.
Of the total capital, US$6.31 million is for the land survey and land map improvement, US$2.23 million for the land use right certificate issuance and the land survey profile improvement, and US$1.39 million for equipment and materials purchase.
2 districts of Tuy Phuoc and Phu My were selected to join the project. The commune of Phuoc Nghia was particularly chosen to the pilot phase.
Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh People’s Committee and head of the provincial steering board for VLAP Ho Quoc Dung highly praised the role and the meaning of the project to Phuoc Nghia local people in particular, Binh Dinh people in general.
The VLAP provided a good foundation for Binh Dinh to improve and modernize its land management system, for officials of the provincial People’s Committee and local authorized agencies to perform their management tasks better, for the people to actually access the use right of their lands, Dung said.
Hastening up project’s progress rate
The tenderers are surveying and mapping Tuy Phuoc district over an area of 16,241ha/16,268ha while organizing mass application for the land use right certification all over the district, said Director of Binh Nguyen Company Tran Van Binh, representative of the tenderers in charge of the land survey and mapping.
So far, total 58,457 dossiers from the local communes requested for the land use right certification have been registered. In Phuoc Nghia commune alone, the land claim and the registration for certificate issuance has already finished with 1,328 registered households, 4,038 dossiers (3,023 dossiers request for the issuance of new certificates while 1,015 dossiers ask for re-granting the paper.)
After putting them into consideration, Phuoc Nghia board of selection consultants, the PPMU, and Tuy Phuoc People’s Committee decided to grant 92 certificates to the first 31 households in Phuoc Nghia.
At the ceremony, the Vice Chairman Ho Quoc Dung acknowledged efforts of the PPMU and the tenderers but pointed out certain shortcomings of the project implementation.
Communication campaigns about the project haven’t been given much attention. Some communities haven’t known about the practical benefits from the project. They thus don’t aggressively respond to the land claim, the registration for certificate issuance and the land survey.
Also, the local government, the district Office of Natural Resources and Environment, the district Office of Land Use Right Registration, the district People’s Committee and the tenderers co-operated loosely, affecting the project’s progress rate.
Dung required that Tuy Phuoc’s local authorities and the tenderers must speed up the progress rate and the pilot implementation of the VLAP in Phuoc Nghia commune need to be completed to meet the deadline of November 11 so as the model would be preliminarily reviewed, evaluated and expanded to other localities in the province.
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