Clear implementation roadmap
According to Mr. Le Anh Tung, Head of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Chi Lang district, since the beginning of the year, the district has issued 29 documents directing and managing the strengthening of state management of land.
Continue to widely disseminate information about the 2013 Land Law and its implementing guidelines to land users through various forms: Dissemination during citizen reception sessions by the Chairman of the District People's Committee; dissemination during meetings with land users to verify and resolve complaints; dissemination at land clearance meetings in villages and neighborhoods; and through the communication system of the District Cultural, Sports and Communications Center.
In particular, to implement the initial land registration plan for land users and those to whom the State has allocated land for management, the District People's Committee has issued an implementation plan, clearly assigning responsibilities to departments and divisions, setting specific targets for communes and towns, and detailing the implementation steps... Regularly urging and requiring communes and towns to report the results of initial land registration on a monthly basis.
Simultaneously, in coordination with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, training on land registration was organized for officials and civil servants of specialized departments and People's Committees of communes and towns. 125 awareness campaigns were conducted to implement land registration, with the participation of nearly 11,000 land users, creating consensus among the people regarding the mandatory nature of land registration.
The District People's Committee also assigned the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to regularly hold meetings to exchange information, provide guidance, and resolve difficulties and obstacles with commune officials and staff of the Land Registration Office Branch. As a result, to date, all 20 communes have completed the review and compiled a preliminary list of land users and land parcels that have not yet been registered for the first time.
"Focus your efforts" on completing it.
According to Mr. Vy Nong Truong, Chairman of the Chi Lang District People's Committee, identifying initial land registration as a key task, the District People's Committee has requested specialized departments and the People's Committees of communes to vigorously implement this task.
At the commune level, detailed plans have been developed, steering committees and specialized working groups have been established in each village, and all unregistered land plots have been reviewed. Notifications have been sent to each land user; and people have been encouraged and guided to declare each land plot. A campaign has been launched to promote initial land registration for land users and those to whom the State has allocated land in the district.
Through land registration, the legal status of land use rights, ownership of houses and other assets attached to the land, and management rights over land parcels used by organizations, households, and individuals have been recorded in cadastral records to update and complete the cadastral database, serving land management; and facilitating the exploitation of land information.
However, to date, land registration results remain low; the progress of reviewing and compiling land registration files at the commune level is slow. The land record system has undergone multiple surveys and revisions, and uses various types of maps, but later files do not fully incorporate or inherit information from earlier files, leading to discrepancies and errors, making it difficult to statistically identify unregistered land parcels.
In addition, the majority of people have not been able to accurately identify the plot of land that has not been initially registered or issued a land use certificate for their family on both digital and paper cadastral maps.
Notably, currently, in many communes, there are still cases where land users have arbitrarily changed the purpose of use, subdivided plots, and transferred land use rights without going through the local authorities; many plots of land are under dispute; and unauthorized leveling and dumping of soil... causing difficulties in applying for registration and declaration at the commune level.
To overcome these limitations, the district has deployed working groups comprising officials and staff from the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the Land Registration Office Branch, the Provincial Land Registration Office, and commune-level land administration officials to work in rotation across communes on weekends.
With this organizational structure, in each commune, every weekend, approximately 20 people with strong professional skills and expertise will work directly with land users to prepare land registration documents at the commune level. This work will be carried out in rotation across 20 commune-level units.
As a result, the number of cases processed has increased significantly, and along with that, commune-level land administration officials participating in supporting other communes will also learn and gain experience to implement in their own communes.
In just four days of implementation in Chien Thang and Van Thuy communes in June, the number of completed applications at the commune level was 1,502, equivalent to one-third of the total number of applications processed at the commune level in the first five months of the year.
With the goal of achieving a land registration rate of 50% or more of unregistered plots by the end of 2023, the district is currently continuing to allocate resources to complete land registration and issue initial land use right certificates. The district is also continuing to inspect and review land use right certificates issued improperly after cadastral mapping to carry out re-registration, surveying, and re-issuance.
In addition, review administrative procedures for issuing land use certificates with a view to simplifying procedures. Strengthen inspection and handling of violations in cases of land use without registration and violations of land laws. Enhance training and dissemination of knowledge on land law, and improve the professional skills of officials and civil servants involved in land management in the district.
In the first six months of the year, Chi Lang district directed its departments, communes, and towns to develop a roadmap for handling land violations that had existed in previous years; and to strictly handle newly arising violations such as encroachment, illegal occupation, and unauthorized change of land use purpose. As a result, 15 administrative penalty decisions on land violations were issued with a total fine of over 260 million VND. Remedial measures included requiring the return of illegal profits, mandatory land registration, and restoration of the land to its original condition before the violation occurred.
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