Removing obstacles to bring policies closer to ethnic minorities

The implementation of Project 1 contributes to solving the need for housing, residential land, production land, and domestic water for ethnic minorities and mountainous areas in Gia Lai province. Photo: Hoa Binh.

However, in the process of implementing projects, there are still difficulties and obstacles that need to be promptly resolved to bring ethnic policies closer to people's lives.

Implementing Project 1 under the National Target Program 1719, Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee has established and completed the Steering Committee, organized the apparatus to direct the implementation of the Program at 3 levels. In addition, the province has also proactively issued mechanisms, regulations, and guidelines for management and implementation. The implementation process focuses on efficiency, not chasing after achievements, especially promoting the role of the people and the community in all stages. Along with that, Gia Lai province issued Plan 556 on March 12, 2024, setting the target of 92% of ethnic minorities using clean water; regarding the arrangement and settlement of stable residents, striving to solve the problem for about 50% of ethnic minority households lacking residential land, housing, and production land.

However, through implementation, many localities are facing difficulties in implementing Project 1, especially in supporting residential land, production land and housing because localities do not have land funds and the support amount is low, not enough to receive the transfer of residential land and production land. Therefore, the disbursement rate for housing construction support is still low because some households do not have land use right certificates or have land papers for perennial crops, and do not have money to change the land use purpose. In addition, some cases are not in accordance with land use planning and plans, do not meet the conditions for land division; do not have enough legal basis for implementation, the time to complete paperwork is prolonged, leading to slow progress.

Mr. Luyen Van Toan - Deputy Head of the Ethnic Affairs Department of Chu Pah district said that according to the review results, most poor ethnic minority households use land stably but do not have land use right certificates, so it is difficult to select households to receive housing support. In addition, for households receiving housing support in 2023, although they have completed building their houses, there is currently not enough funding to support according to regulations. Not only is there difficulty with land funds, but the preferential loan capital to support in 2024 to implement Decree No. 28/2022/ND-CP has not yet been allocated by the Central Government to localities. Therefore, localities that have approved the list of poor households supported with the contents of Project 1 are still waiting for this capital to integrate with the State's support budget to implement the support contents.

It is known that the total budget capital for implementing the National Target Program 1719 allocated to Gia Lai province from 2022 to 2024 is 2,067.5 billion VND. According to the general assessment of Gia Lai province, the implementation of the National Target Program 1719 is currently facing many difficulties. The disbursement rate from 2022 to present has only reached 49.1% of the total allocated capital. The pressure to disburse over 1,000 billion VND in the remaining months of 2024 is very large, mainly career capital.

Deputy Head of the Gia Lai Province Ethnic Minorities Committee Truong Trung Tuyen said that implementing Project 1 of the National Target Program 1719, the whole province has 3,425 households supported with housing; 1,162 households supported with residential land; 11,590 households supported with production land; 6,463 households supported with changing occupations and distributed domestic water support for 2,554 disadvantaged households in ethnic minority areas. The implementation of Project 1 has practical significance for poor ethnic minority households, especially for those lacking residential land, production land, housing, and having difficulties with domestic water. From there, it contributes to helping ethnic minorities and mountainous areas in the province feel secure in developing the economy, increasing income, and improving their lives. Therefore, in the coming time, Gia Lai province will propose solutions to gradually overcome difficulties when deploying and implementing this Project.

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