Phan Lam and Phan Son (Bac Binh district) are 2 of 31 communes included in the third survey and collection of information on the socio-economic status of 53 ethnic minorities in 2024. These are also 2 communes that have just merged part of their area and population. After the merger, the socio-economic status of these 2 communes still has many issues that need attention. According to the results of the 2019 socio-economic survey of 53 ethnic minorities, the very small Ro Mam ethnic group lives concentrated in Le village, Mo Rai commune, Sa Thay district (Kon Tum), with 150 households, 693 people; the poverty rate accounts for 33.3%, the near-poor households account for 36.4%. From the results of the survey, the Central Government and Kon Tum province have issued many Programs and Projects to support socio-economic development for the Ro Mam ethnic group. Thereby, comprehensively changing the socio-economic life of the Ro Mam ethnic group. General Secretary To Lam proposed that the Central Military Commission strengthen leadership and direction of the entire army to maintain and improve combat readiness, ensuring victory in all situations... According to the results of the 2019 socio-economic survey of 53 ethnic minorities, the Ro Mam ethnic group is very small, living concentrated in Le village, Mo Rai commune, Sa Thay district (Kon Tum), with 150 households, 693 people; the rate of poor households accounts for 33.3%, near-poor households accounts for 36.4%. From the results of the survey, the Central Government and Kon Tum province have issued many Programs and Projects to support socio-economic development for the Ro Mam ethnic group. Thereby, changing the economic and social life of the Ro Mam ethnic group. On December 16, the Drug Crime Investigation Police Department of Quang Nam Province Police said that it was temporarily detaining 12 subjects to continue investigating and clarifying the act of buying, selling, and organizing illegal use of drugs at the Diamond Club (Tam Ky City). On December 16, the People's Committee of Duy Xuyen District, Quang Nam Province organized a surprise reward for individuals who had bravely and promptly rescued 3 students swept away by floodwaters. On the evening of December 16, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Mr. Muraoka Tsugumasa, Governor of Yamaguchi Province (Japan) who is visiting and working in Vietnam. Implementing the National Target Program (NTP) for sustainable poverty reduction, in addition to implementing projects and programs to support livelihoods, increase income, and improve the quality of life of people, Van Lang District, Lang Son Province also implemented Support contents to improve nutrition, improve people's health, contribute to improving the quality of human resources in ethnic minority areas. General news of Ethnic and Development Newspaper. Morning news on December 14, there is the following notable information: 2 more national intangible cultural heritages in Binh Dinh. Bringing oriental medicine into tourism products. Artisans devote their youth to preserving Then heritage. Along with other current news in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. In order to improve security and safety in card transactions, SHB will support customers to convert magnetic stripe ATM cards to VCCS-standard chip technology cards at a cost of "0 VND". This is considered an effective solution in ensuring the safety of card transactions for customers according to international standards. On the morning of December 16, the Women's Union of Duc Co district, Gia Lai province coordinated with the People's Committee of Ia Lang commune, Siu Bleh Secondary School (Ia Lang commune, Duc Co district) to launch the "Leader of Change" Club. The "Community Trust Address" model of the Women's Union of Duc Co district, Gia Lai province has promptly helped women who are victims of domestic violence in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, border areas; Reconciling marital conflicts, disseminating laws on preventing and combating domestic violence and resolving urgent issues for women and children. On the morning of December 16, the authorities of Tam Thang commune (Tam Ky city, Quang Nam province) and local people searched for and recovered the bodies of a mother and child who died on the Dam river while fishing, suspected to have capsized their boat. On the morning of December 16, the Immigration Department - Quang Nam Provincial Police coordinated with the Huu Nghi Border Guard Station (Lang Son) to deport and hand over a Chinese citizen who entered the country illegally.
Continue to maintain communes without villages
On November 29, 2024, at Phan Son Commune Cultural House, Bac Binh District People's Committee held a ceremony to announce Resolution No. 1253/NQ-UBTVQH15 of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the arrangement of commune-level administrative units of Binh Thuan province for the period 2023 - 2025.
According to the Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Bac Binh district adjusted the natural area of 4.43 km2 of Phan Lam commune to merge into Phan Son commune. After adjustment, Phan Lam commune has an area of 392.30 km2 and a population of 2,785 people.
Previously, on May 22, 2024, the People's Committee of Bac Binh district issued Project 01/DA-UBND on adjusting part of the natural area of Phan Lam commune into Phan Son commune of Bac Binh district. According to this project, the infrastructure after the merger of Phan Lam commune remains the same as before the merger, with the basic situation being lacking.
Specifically, the main infrastructure in Phan Lam commune only includes the following items: Commune People's Committee Headquarters; Commune Police Office; Separate Point (Primary) of Son Lam Primary and Secondary School; Separate Point of Son Lam Kindergarten; Phan Lam Commune Health Station; Commune Post Office; Phan Lam Community House and Ka Ya Mau Cultural House.
Phan Lam is a mountainous commune with a large ethnic minority population. The whole commune has nearly 700 households; including 8 ethnic groups living together; of which more than 80% of the population is Raglay, the rest are K'Ho, Cham, Kinh, Nung, Hoa, Chau Ro...
In particular, Phan Lam commune continues to maintain the commune model without village-level administrative units. Therefore, the commune does not arrange for non-professional workers in the village and does not assign people to directly participate in village activities.
In early 2024, a reporter from the Ethnic and Development Newspaper had a discussion about the socio-economic situation of Phan Lam commune with Mr. Mang Xoa - Secretary of the Commune Party Committee. According to Mr. Xoa, many years ago, the commune had developed a project to establish a village-level administrative unit, sent it to the district and the province for approval; but it has not been approved yet.
Referring to the difficulties of the commune, Mr. Mang Xoa expressed regret that the commune "missed" many investment resources from the state budget, especially from the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development of Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas according to Decision No. 1719/QD-TTg (National Target Program 1719).
In the period of 2021 - 2025, according to Decision No. 861/QD-TTg dated June 4, 2021 of the Prime Minister, Phan Lam is a commune in region I. Therefore, the commune does not benefit from investment capital from the National Target Program 1719, but only has some policy contents to support ethnic minorities in poor and near-poor households from career capital.
It is even more difficult when the commune does not have a village-level administrative unit. For ease of management, the commune has established 6 self-governing groups. These are not administrative units, so they do not meet the conditions for competent authorities to consider whether they are particularly difficult or not.
Phan Lam is one of 07 communes of Bac Binh district within the scope of the fourth survey and collection of information on the socio-economic status of 53 ethnic minorities in 2024. Therefore, the socio-economic conditions of the commune as well as the lives of ethnic minorities in Phan Lam commune were collected in this survey.
More motivation from special policies
Like Phan Lam, infrastructure conditions in Phan Son commune are also lacking and weak. Phan Son is only better than Phan Lam in that the commune has the main campus of Son Lam Primary and Secondary School and the adjusted campus of Son Lam Kindergarten (Phan Lam commune is a separate campus). In addition, Phan Son has a traditional market, while Phan Lam commune does not.
These essential projects are all investment contents of the National Target Program 1719. Although they meet the requirements of ethnic minority population, because they are not located in particularly difficult areas, both Phan Lam and Phan Son are not allocated investment capital from the National Target Program 1719.
In Project 01/DA-UBND dated May 22, 2024 on adjusting part of the natural area of Phan Lam commune into Phan Son commune, the People's Committee of Bac Binh district also affirmed that currently, there are no specific policies being implemented in the two communes.
Before the merger, the infrastructure status in Phan Lam and Phan Son communes was collected from the fourth socio-economic survey of 53 ethnic minorities in 2024. Bac Binh district, Binh Thuan province needs to carefully analyze and evaluate the information collected from the survey to have appropriate mechanisms and policies to support these two communes.
Binh Thuan has 34 ethnic minorities, with 104,066 people, accounting for nearly 8.4% of the province's population. Ethnic minorities live in 15 pure communes and 32 mixed villages in 8/10 districts, towns and cities of the province.
According to the reporter's research, in recent years, in order to support the socio-economic development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas of the province, in addition to the central government's policies, Binh Thuan province has also implemented 13 specific local policies; however, most of the policies are only supportive.
These include the subsidy policy for ethnic minority students in mountainous and highland villages and communes in Binh Thuan province; the policy of investing in advance of seeds, materials and essential goods to support production development for ethnic minority households in pure communes and mixed ethnic minority villages; the policy of visiting and giving gifts to some ethnic minority people on the occasion of Lunar New Year and traditional Tet of ethnic minorities; the policy of forest protection contracts;...
The breakthrough in Binh Thuan's specific policy planning is the "Infrastructure investment support program for ethnic minority areas in the province for the period 2021 - 2025", approved by the Provincial People's Council at the 3rd session (September 2021). However, in this program, which is considered to have a stimulating impact on most ethnic minority areas in Binh Thuan province, Phan Lam and Phan Son communes have not yet benefited.
Specifically, implementing this Program, in the period of 2021 - 2025, Bac Binh district is allocated 10.3 billion VND (the highest among the districts in the province) to invest in 3 sub-projects. Including the project to upgrade the production area road from the main Ca Giay canal to the Nam Ta Mu canal (Binh An commune); the project to upgrade rural traffic roads in the center of village 2 (Binh An commune) and the project to upgrade the road to the residential area of Phu Dien village (Phan Dien commune).
Thus, for the two communes that have just merged, Phan Lam and Phan Son, if there are any specific policies for investment and support, we will have to wait until after 2025. It is expected that the third investigation and collection of information on the socio-economic status of 53 ethnic minorities in 2024 in Phan Lam and Phan Son communes will provide accurate data for Binh Thuan province as well as Bac Binh district to evaluate and analyze, thereby having mechanisms and policies to support these two communes.
Source: https://baodantoc.vn/binh-thuan-danh-gia-thuc-trang-kinh-te-xa-hoi-o-cac-xa-thuoc-vung-dong-bao-dtts-va-mien-nui-sau-sap-nhap-1734321608621.htm
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