Land and forest allocation in Muong Nhe still faces many difficulties

Officers of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Muong Nhe district awarded certificates of land use rights for non-forested areas to people of Pa My commune.

Mr. Thao A De, Vice Chairman of Muong Nhe District People's Committee, said: Right from the early stages of implementing land and forest allocation and granting of land use right certificates, Muong Nhe District has mobilized the entire political system to implement. The District People's Committee and the District Steering Committee have issued many directive documents, promptly removing difficulties and obstacles in the implementation process under their authority. Notably, the forested land area has achieved many positive results, the process of ensuring forest cover is increasing, the forest area has been allocated and managed to 14,917.9 hectares. Of which, land allocation and granting of land use right certificates to households and communities is 10,879.08 hectares; the People's Committees of communes are assigned to manage 4,038.82 hectares. However, the area of non-forested land has only been reviewed at 62% compared to the assigned plan, the implementation progress is still slow compared to the requirements (excluding the overlapping area with rubber area planning, Project 79 area, and land survey area...). Up to now, Muong Nhe has only allocated land and issued land use right certificates at 47% compared to the approved area of the measured plot, estimated at 33% of the assigned plan for review. In the district, there are still over 2,000 hectares that have not been reviewed due to small areas, traffic land, and riverside areas. In addition, the district has 1,259 hectares of forested land in Pa Tet village (Huoi Lech commune) that has not been edited for the measured plot.

In fact, the area of encroachment within Muong Nhe district has not been allocated relatively large. For example, currently, between Chung Chai commune and Leng Su Sin commune, there are over 70 households in Chung Chai intercropping on the Leng Su Sin border. On the other hand, the district has not yet allocated the area in the border area between two communes related to administrative boundaries such as Nam Ke commune and Na Co Sa commune (Nam Po district) because it has not been able to mobilize the people of Na Co Sa commune to cooperate. In addition, some villages have not agreed with the boundary of forested land that has been reviewed in the field for management, so the land allocation to the village community for the disputed area has not been implemented. For example, in Cha Noi 1 village and Cha Noi 2 village (Quang Lam commune), although the issue has been resolved and mobilized many times, the people still do not agree. Land disputes between households still occur because the commune authorities have not resolved them completely or have resolved them many times but the people still do not agree with the resolution plan. Meanwhile, consulting units have not mobilized and supplemented qualified and capable human resources to carry out the signed tasks, although the specialized agencies as well as the District People's Committee have issued many documents urging and directing. There is no plan to arrange human resources to review and supplement the area that has not been reviewed for the first time, and the dossier has not been completed and supplemented for cases where the plan has been publicly reviewed but the land has not been allocated.

Faced with the above difficulties and problems, in the coming time, for the People's Committees of communes that have had their land allocation plans approved and their land use right certificates issued, Muong Nhe district will direct cadastral officials to coordinate with consulting units and working groups to assist the District Steering Committee and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to review and classify cases that have not been allocated land and complete the dossiers to propose additional allocation for cases that meet the conditions for allocation. For communes that have not yet developed land allocation plans and have not completed the registration declaration dossiers, the district will closely coordinate with consulting units to urgently complete the registration declaration dossiers from the people. At the same time, mobilize people to declare and register; resolve land disputes before submitting land allocation plans, ensuring that the area approved for land allocation plans is equivalent to the area reviewed and registered. Direct the consulting unit to focus on increasing human resources and technical means to speed up progress to complete the workload and ensure the assigned plan.

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