Bac Ninh: Accelerating land data digitization

BAC NINH - In the process of national digital transformation, land data is considered a particularly important digital asset that creates a foundation for planning, management, investment and ensuring people's rights. Realizing that, the authorities and localities in Bac Ninh province are accelerating the implementation of the campaign to "enrich and clean up" the national land database with a spirit of urgency, creativity and synchronization from the grassroots level.

Flexible approach

These days, the working atmosphere in Nhan Hoa ward is urgent. As a unit merged from three old localities, the ward has nearly 4,000 land plot records to collect, a huge amount of work. Mr. Nguyen Thanh Trung, Vice Chairman of the Ward People's Committee, said that the locality mobilized all its forces, divided into two phases to avoid overlap. The ward established two working groups, mobilizing cadres who used to work in old communes and wards to take advantage of their knowledge of the area and familiar relationships with the people, helping to shorten the progress and reduce work pressure after the merger.

Kien Lao commune officials collect residential land data of local people.

Ms. Dao Thi Bich (born in 1941, Cong Coi neighborhood) shared: “I heard the announcement to bring documents to the village Cultural House to update land data, but my leg hurt so I couldn’t go. I was so happy when the officers came to my house to support me in updating my records, helping to synchronize information and ensuring the rights of the people.”

The method of “going to every alley, knocking on every door” helps to collect documents more effectively, while spreading the spirit of community responsibility. After more than a month of implementation, specialized agencies have proactively checked data from specialized systems, clearly identifying cases of discrepancies and lack of synchronization. The current requirement is to update “correct, sufficient, clean, and live” data, honestly reflecting both the person whose name is on the land use right certificate and the person directly using it.

Not only in Nhan Hoa, the campaign to clean up and enrich land data was also vigorously implemented in Kien Lao commune (combined from the two old communes of Kien Lao and Kien Thanh). The People's Committee of the commune was assigned to collect and update data for 1,778 land plots. As soon as the campaign was launched, the commune established a working group to collect and verify information. Propaganda work was deployed synchronously to help people grasp in a timely manner and actively cooperate. People can bring the original for officials to take photos, submit photocopies or send photos via Zalo. Thanks to that, by mid-October, Kien Lao commune had collected information for 3,006 land plots, of which 628 plots were cleaned and 2,378 plots were enriched, reaching 169% of the target.

Many other localities are also implementing synchronous and scientific implementation to link the responsibility of each group and individual with specific results. A new point is to encourage people to use the CamScanner application to take photos of documents, helping to make the photos clear, display data accurately, and reduce errors when entering data - a small but meaningful step in the process of rural digital transformation.

Mobilizing the entire political system

According to the Department of Agriculture and Environment, the province has more than 572,500 land users, of which nearly 500,000 cases have been updated with unified data, about 23,000 cases have not been matched and nearly 50,000 cases have not been identified. The authorities have extracted more than 266,510 pieces of land plot, house and user information and sent them to communes and wards to collect Land Use Rights Certificates and Citizen Identification Cards of the owners.

To date, localities have collected and scanned more than 131,500 Land Use Right Certificates, Bac Ninh Land Registration Office has received nearly 55,000 image files sent by communes and updated forms for nearly 31,000 land plots. These figures show the great efforts of the entire system. Information security and network security are focused on during the process of collecting and storing data.

However, some places still face difficulties due to lack of specific information about the land users, the divided land plots or the users who do not reside in the locality. Some communes and wards were affected by the floods after storm No. 11, which also slowed down the implementation process. Data verification and information addition by people are not convenient, especially in special cases such as the certificate is mortgaged, lost, torn or the land owner is far away.

During the implementation process, some people reported being asked to photocopy and notarize documents. Local leaders shared that because information about land users is created over many different periods, there are changes between the identity card and citizen identification card, so providing copies of documents is necessary for accurate data entry (no notarization required). During the implementation process, due to the large amount of work, the specialist staff should ask people to photocopy documents (no notarization required) to enter data outside of working hours, but the way it is expressed can cause people to misunderstand, causing unnecessary reactions.

Mr. Hoang Hai Lam, Director of Bac Ninh Land Registration Office No. 1, affirmed: “People only need to provide a copy of the Land Use Rights Certificate and Citizen Identification Card when requested, without notarization. For certificates that are mortgaged, lost, torn, or the landowner is far away, they only need to clearly state the status of “mortgaged” and provide a photo or copy; all data has been saved in the industry system. After collection, people can check and verify information on the National Population Database through the VNeID application, ensuring publicity, transparency and convenience.

The leader of the Department of Agriculture and Environment emphasized that the management agency cannot review everything, so it needs the cooperation of the people, both the certificate holders and the actual users. For the 90-day campaign to "enrich and clean" land data to be effective, localities must mobilize the entire political system to participate, choosing a method suitable to the actual situation.

In the coming time, when the software for self-declaration of land data is integrated into the VNeID application, people can take photos, scan and send information online; towards a unified, transparent, interconnected land database - effectively serving state management and people's needs.

“Digitizing” land data is not only about cleaning up information but also about innovating management thinking, focusing on people. When data is digitized, Bac Ninh will have a solid foundation to make a breakthrough in the journey of building a transparent and connected digital government, digital economy and digital society.

Article and photos: Duong Hoan

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