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Quang Nam is determined to complete the elimination of temporary houses by 2025. In the photo: Youth Union members and people of Tay Giang district support the elimination of temporary houses. Photo: HO QUAN

Going first, in the conditions of a locality like Quang Nam (many temporary houses, limited budget, higher poverty rate than the national average and mainly concentrated in mountainous areas - where people's lives are still very difficult), is a great political determination of the Provincial Party Committee, requiring outstanding and regular, continuous efforts of the entire political system of the province to have the opportunity to turn the policy into reality; but at the same time, it is a decision of sentiment, from the awareness that "after 50 years of the homeland being liberated, if we let our people still live in temporary, dilapidated houses, we have not fulfilled our responsibility to the people".

On March 31, 2022, Quang Nam Provincial Party Committee issued Directive No. 35-CT/TU on strengthening the Party's leadership in the work of eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses in the province; requiring the entire political system from the province to the grassroots level to take drastic and synchronous action with the highest political determination, the most drastic actions, striving to complete the goal of eliminating temporary houses by the end of 2025. After that, a series of specific solutions were implemented, such as: Establishing a Steering Committee at the provincial and district levels, with the Party Secretary directly as the head of the committee; Organizing investigations, surveys, and making a list of eligible beneficiaries of policies in the whole province; Issuing resolutions of the People's Council on support mechanisms and policies; The Vietnam Fatherland Front of the province, then the Provincial Party Secretary issued a Letter calling for and mobilizing social resources to actively respond and participate in support; Establishing shock troops of sectors and localities to join hands to support people;...

After 3 years of implementing Directive 35-CT/TU, the whole province has completed the renovation and construction of 5,590 new houses, reaching 47.47% of the total number of houses that need support. Looking at the absolute numbers, it can be affirmed that the results achieved reflect the great efforts of all levels, sectors and people in the province. However, compared to the target, it is very worrying. Because, up to this point, the whole province still has 6,171 temporary houses that need to be removed, of which 4,282 are newly built houses and 1,889 are renovated and repaired.

Thus, in the past 3 years, Quang Nam has only gone less than half way in the journey of eliminating temporary houses; while the remaining time is only calculated in months and days. Specifically, according to the direction of the Government and the determination of the Provincial Steering Committee, by the end of October 2025, the entire program must be basically completed. In other words, from now until then, Quang Nam must eliminate more than 34 temporary houses every day!

Recently, at the conference to review 3 years of implementing Directive 35-CT/TU, Provincial Party Secretary Luong Nguyen Minh Triet requested a more specific roadmap: By the end of August 2025, the delta districts must complete the temporary houses; districts with less than 150 houses and communes with less than 10 houses must complete before June 30; 1,151 houses of policy families must be completed before the anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day on July 27 this year.

Time is pressing, the task is heavy, the number of temporary houses that need to be newly built and renovated is huge; while in reality, many difficulties and challenges arise. The recent monitoring by the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee pointed out: some localities are slow to disburse support funds; the arrangement of new residential land for some cases is still difficult; the prices of raw materials and construction labor in mountainous areas are too high; the income of many households in mountainous areas is too low, making it difficult for people to find enough funds to build houses outside of the State's support sources;...

In addition, there are other more worrying causes, as Provincial Party Secretary Luong Nguyen Minh Triet pointed out at many meetings, that some Party committees, authorities and heads of districts and communes have not really paid attention, closely followed and resolutely led and directed the implementation. The temporary housing figures "dancing" through the statistics of recent times from localities is one of the proofs. This reality, placed in the context of implementing the Party and State's policy of rearranging commune-level administrative units and abolishing the district level, poses even greater challenges!

Resolute, flexible, creative, and responsible are the consistent guiding principles of the Provincial Steering Committee in implementing the program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses. Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Van Dung recently also assured that there will be no shortage of money to support the people. Thus, the remaining problem is only in the way of doing it. And this depends a lot on the dedication and efforts of all levels, sectors, and localities, especially at the grassroots level. By the time of officially merging communes and ending the operation of the district-level apparatus as announced on the roadmap, perhaps, many more difficulties will arise. And the remaining time is coming... very close!

Hopefully, with this program imbued with humanistic spirit, Quang Nam will not be left behind!

Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/mong-dung-di-truoc-ve-sau-3152182.html