Untangling land bottlenecks: Need solutions from practice

The suffering called "red book"

The family of Mrs. Bui Thi Hoa, Tan Binh town (Yen Son) has lived stably on the family land for decades. In 1992, this land was granted a Land Use Rights Certificate. However, a year later, the Yen Son district government said that this land was granted incorrectly and had to be re-granted because the land area was under the management of Song Lo Farm. Therefore, Mrs. Hoa's family has submitted many applications to re-grant it, but until now, after more than 30 years, Mrs. Hoa's family has not been granted a Land Use Rights Certificate. Ms. Hoa shared: “We have submitted documents, supplemented papers, waited for verification, then waited for a meeting to consider. Every year we ask, but only receive the answer “we must re-identify the origin of the previous purchase and sale”, we must find the previous land allocation papers to resolve the issue. Not only my family but dozens of households in the neighborhood are also stuck in the same situation. Transferring, mortgaging, even repairing and upgrading the house cannot be done. We do not understand how much longer we have to wait”.

Receiving land administrative procedures for people at the Provincial Public Administration Service Center.

The land of Mr. Bui Van Quy's family, group 8, Hung Thanh ward ( Tuyen Quang city) has 50 square meters of residential land. Mr. Quy wants to change the purpose of using garden land to residential land to separate the book for his son and build a new house. Mr. Quy has submitted the application for conversion 6 months ago but it has not been resolved yet. The house the family is living in is now dilapidated but they still cannot build a new house because the land procedures have not been resolved.

The situation of Ms. Hoa and Mr. Quy is not unique. In Tuyen Quang city and districts such as Yen Son, Son Duong, Ham Yen..., hundreds of households are also in the situation of "having residential land but no red book". Many cases have lived there for decades, without disputes, without violations, but their records are still pending. Common reasons given are "lack of official cadastral maps", "stuck with unadjusted land use planning", or "lack of human resources to process records"...

Not only people, businesses also face difficulties in accessing land. Ngoc Ha Tuyen Quang Company Limited has compensated households whose land is in the planning, and has built SPA HOTEL hot spring resort items according to the detailed planning approved by the Provincial People's Committee. However, in the process of establishing land procedures, there were issues with the issuance of land use right certificates that were incorrect and overlapped with the actual situation, leading to the procedures for changing land use purposes and registering land use right transfers being unable to continue.

According to the reporter's investigation, many businesses investing in industrial production, tourism services, or urban infrastructure are facing difficulties in the process of changing land use purposes and land allocation. The reason is said to be due to complicated procedures, unclear authority, and the "avoidance of responsibility" mentality in handling documents by a number of professional staff.

Solution from the authorities

Comrade Pham Dinh Tu, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment, said: Currently, the whole province has issued Land Use Right Certificates for over 94% of the area. The land area that has not been issued is mainly due to problems related to people's violations in the process of land use. Typical examples include: illegal change of purpose, building houses on rice fields, encroachment on agricultural and forestry land; unclear land origin documents, even land transfer and exchange without documents... In addition, the system of legal documents on land has had many innovations, but when put into practice, there are still many shortcomings. The updating and correction of cadastral maps in many places is not complete; the determination of land use origin of people in some cases still lacks a clear legal basis.
According to comrade Pham Dinh Tu, the solution in the coming time is that the province will re-measure and determine the land area of the forestry farms to serve as a basis for issuing certificates with an area of about 17,000 hectares. Households that violate the encroachment must be administratively punished and must restore the original state. At the same time, the province will build a land database, once completed, all land-related problems will be resolved.

Regarding the issue of changing the land use purpose of enterprises, Mr. Tu said that this process involves many levels and many sectors: from the commune-level People's Committee to confirm, the district to prepare documents, appraise... Each stage can have problems, prolonging the processing time. The province is making efforts to reform administrative procedures and apply information technology. In addition, to completely resolve the problems, it is necessary to strengthen the work of public inspection. In fact, through inspections, many cases of "holding" people's documents without resolving them for personal gain have had to be handled.

Comrade Dinh Van Tinh, Vice Chairman of Yen Son District People's Committee, also said that most of the problems in granting land use right certificates in the area are currently related to land areas previously managed by farms and forestry farms. To overcome this problem, in the coming time, it is necessary to speed up the progress of re-measuring land of farms and forestry farms, and promote the construction of land databases. Recently, the District People's Committee has issued many documents to rectify and strengthen the responsibility for handling administrative procedures on land in the area. The District People's Committee has also increased propaganda, announced and publicized the hotline phone number to receive feedback and recommendations from organizations and citizens. People who have problems can call directly to the Vice Chairman of the District People's Committee, Head of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Deputy Chief of the Office of the District People's Council and People's Committee, Email address (gmail): ubndyensontuyenquang@gmail.com. At the same time, the process and processing time of each type of file will be made public on the electronic system, with clear progress notifications. Therefore, people will no longer be passive over time, and negative consequences will also be limited.

Land is an important resource for economic development, a place where people can settle down and make a living. Untangling land bottlenecks is not only an administrative task, but also a political and moral responsibility of the government to the people. The province is facing a great opportunity for strong reform, towards a more open, transparent and effective land administration, something that people and businesses have long awaited.

Source: https://baotuyenquang.com.vn/go-nut-that-dat-dai-can-loi-giai-tu-thuc-tien-210069.html