Implementing policies on residential land and production land for ethnic minorities

From 2022 to 2024, the province Gia Lai The total budget capital allocated to implement the National Target Program 1719 is 2.067,5 billion VND; the total capital allocated by the province is 2.183 billion VND. By the beginning of the month August 2024, the total disbursed budget capital was 1.072,1 billion VND, reaching 49,1% of the allocated capital plan. Accordingly, the central budget capital has disbursed 933,1 billion VND, reaching 48,7% of the assigned capital plan; the local budget capital has disbursed 139 billion VND, reaching 52,2% of the assigned capital plan.

Through implementation, it has been shown that the implementation of Project 1 is of great significance to ethnic minorities, especially households facing difficulties in land, housing, clean water, helping them overcome difficulties, develop the economy, increase income and improve their lives. However, many localities are also facing difficulties in implementing Project 1, especially in supporting residential land and production land. In addition, 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, there are some cases that 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.

A typical example is in Chu Pan district. According to Mr. Nay Kien, Chairman of the People's Committee of Chu Pan district, according to the review results, most poor ethnic minority households use land stably but do not have land use right certificates, so the selection of households to receive housing support under Project 1 is facing many difficulties. 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. For the content of supporting production land under Project 1, the funding source allocated in 2022 cannot be implemented, so the unit has advised to switch to supporting housing for ethnic minorities in 2024. Not only is there difficulty in land funds, but the preferential loan support source in 2024 under Decree No. 28/2022/ND-CP has not 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 budget support capital to implement the support contents.

It is known that in the past time, Gia Lai province has supported housing for 3.425 households; supported residential land for 1.162 households; supported production land for 11.590 households and supported career conversion for 6.463 households. Not only basically solving the housing, residential land and production land needs of ethnic minorities. Many localities in Gia Lai province have also effectively implemented projects to stabilize spontaneous migrants for 840 households, including 450 spontaneous migrants from other provinces. The effective implementation of housing, residential land and production land support has helped many poor ethnic minority households feel secure in production, stabilize their lives, and at the same time limit the situation of shifting cultivation, deforestation for farming, contributing to stabilizing security and order in the area. However, the implementation of these contents has not been thorough.

Mr. Truong Trung Tuyen, Deputy Head of the Gia Lai Province Ethnic Minorities Committee, said that through information on the implementation of Project 1, many localities currently have no land funds to provide to beneficiaries. The support is mainly disbursed through loans. However, the price of residential land and production land is too high compared to the State's support level, so it is difficult for beneficiaries to buy land. At the same time, many ethnic minority households do not have land use right certificates, so the solution of buying and selling and transferring cannot be implemented, leading to the inability to disburse according to the set plan. In the coming time, Gia Lai province will try to overcome difficulties to effectively implement the care for ethnic minorities in the locality.