"As long as land recovery is based on the mindset of buying and selling, it will fail," said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan during a discussion with National Assembly delegates from Dong Thap, Thai Binh, and Ha Giang provinces about the draft Land Law (amended).
Many delegates mentioned the issue of compensation, reparation, and resettlement support for people and businesses in cases of land acquisition. Minister Le Minh Hoan also pondered this issue with the question: What is "equal or better" ("Ensuring better living conditions than the old place" is one of the principles of compensation and resettlement when acquiring land).
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"This question is the most painful, seemingly simple but not simple. It opens up a completely new approach," Minister Le Minh Hoan emphasized, while pointing out the shortcomings in the way of land recovery compensation according to current regulations.
The Minister gave an example of people whose land was recovered being supported to change their jobs, but there was a family where both husband and wife were nearly 80 years old and could not change their jobs. Another very common case was that the compensation was not enough for people to buy resettlement houses, or the resettlement houses were not suitable for the cultural lifestyle of some ethnic minority communities...
"We have done well, it's not that we don't care for the people, but why do people react to become social phenomena, class conflicts? ", Minister Le Minh Hoan raised the issue, saying that sometimes he himself felt sorry for the people in the settlement of land compensation and recovery.
The Minister said that sociological, psychological, ethnographic, income and health surveys are decisive factors in land recovery compensation, not compensation unit prices.
"This problem is also related to public investment projects, which are all stuck in site clearance. We will continue to encounter this situation if we do not have a satisfactory approach to site clearance compensation. As long as land acquisition is based on the mindset of buying and selling, it will fail. We have to sit with the people and survey each house, not have the compensation committee take the site down to calculate the survey, measure, multiply the unit price to get the total compensation cost," said the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
"People only care about how their lives will be equal or better when their land is recovered. We have to prepare as a plan, do it carefully. It takes time but will save us from suffering later. The compensation committee will investigate and survey, distinguish each case, the leaders will listen, give opinions and then start to apply unit prices and standards.
This is not only about land acquisition but also about local socio-economic development. If this goes smoothly, public investment will be much faster."
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