Authorities need to soon list the price of land for leveling.

At the mine located in Phuoc Vinh commune, Chau Thanh district, there is still land reserved for sale, so the issue of publicly posting the price of land for filling at the mine, invoices, etc. is of great concern to the competent authorities in the coming time.

Faced with difficulties in the source of land for filling up key transport projects in the province, the Provincial People's Committee has issued many drastic instructions, but the situation is still not optimistic. Construction contractors are still "complaining" about the price of land for filling up being much higher than the bid price, making it difficult to find sources.

Finding solutions to the shortage of land for landfill

As the unit assigned by the People's Committee to be the investor of many key transport projects in the province, the scarcity and high price of land for leveling has affected many projects. The Transport Construction Investment Project Management Board (PMU) proposed to the Provincial People's Committee the contents that need to be considered to resolve this situation.

Accordingly, the Project Management Board recommends that departments, branches and localities need to have sanctions to manage mine owners whose sources of fill materials are still being exploited, assess the remaining reserves and publicly list the selling price at the mine so that construction units can access and purchase the source of fill materials for construction projects.

In case the mine owners do not comply or do not provide to the construction unit, the departments and branches need to advise the Provincial People's Committee to take strong sanctions such as punishing the act of hoarding goods waiting for prices to increase for profit or revoking the license.

In addition, the Project Management Board also recommended that the Provincial People's Committee direct departments, branches and localities to remove difficulties in the scarcity of materials (soil, red gravel) for the construction of key transport projects, consider planning and licensing of construction material mining (only used for the construction of key projects or the licensing unit must commit to prioritizing the supply of materials for key projects and publicly quote prices at the mine, and send reports to the Department of Construction to post prices periodically monthly) in localities where the project passes through, in order to save the State budget and speed up construction progress.

Most of the mine owners said that they report the price of construction materials for leveling to the Economic - Infrastructure Department and the Department of Construction every month, but there are almost no listed prices at the mines. Some mine owners said that the selling price at the mine for each type of leveling soil, such as the soil mine in Phuoc Vinh commune, Chau Thanh district, did not have any listed price list.

However, at the mine in Thanh Bac commune, Tan Bien district, when answering us, the person who is said to be a mine worker said he did not know the price because the owner sold it. However, when talking to the car owners and the brick kiln owners, they all received the answer that the selling price was not publicly listed because the mine owner sold it at a negotiated price. Only for large customers who signed a contract, the mine owner sold according to the contract, but to buy land for several cars, you had to pay in cash.

According to the representative of the provincial Market Management Department, after reviewing the legal documents, there is no regulation on public price posting at the mining site, but only at the gathering point. The Market Management Department will continue to study and research this issue.

However, in reality, although the mines do not publicly list prices, many mines have stockpiled fill materials at the mines and sell them openly. This is an issue that the Project Management Board has a basis for proposing.

Trucks take soil from the mine in Thanh Bac commune, Tan Bien district (near the headquarters of Thanh Bac commune People's Committee) to sell.

Is there speculation and hoarding?

A mine owner in Thanh Bac commune, Tan Bien district (near the commune People's Committee) explained to us that the large amount of soil stored at the mine had been sold to an individual for 1,000 vehicles, but because this person did not have a place to store it, he temporarily left it in the mine premises. Although the project management board and contractors complained a lot about the scarcity of filling materials such as filling soil and red gravel.

However, according to our records, at the large soil storage site located on Road 793, Thanh Tan Hamlet, Mo Cong Commune, Tan Bien District, every day there are many large trucks (4-axle dump trucks) carrying full containers of soil dumping into the site. Most of the soil trucks depart from the direction of Thanh Bac Commune, Tan Bien District.

Currently, the 793 road project has been completed, the 795 road project is in the asphalt paving phase. Public opinion believes that the amount of land stored at the above site is not for any key traffic projects, but could be a form of land speculation, filling, hoarding, and price increase. Therefore, public opinion hopes that the relevant authorities will investigate and clarify the legality of the above land storage site such as sales invoices, land origin, and environmental protection issues.

According to the People's Committee of Tan Bien district, there are 13 mineral mines operating in the area with an area of 64.09 hectares, with an exploited reserve of 4,029,668m3. The licensed reserves and average annual exploitation capacity of 681,300m3 ensure the supply for construction of works, projects, infrastructure and construction needs of people in the district.

The District People's Committee also acknowledged that there are still difficulties in the work of reserve statistics. State management of mineral exploitation activities still has limitations such as the situation of individuals and organizations violating mineral activities is increasingly sophisticated and complicated, these activities often take place on Saturdays and Sundays, the area is large, the district-level professional force is thin; monitoring and reporting at the local level are not timely, so detecting and handling violations is still difficult.

Some businesses have not installed weighing stations or surveillance cameras; monitoring work in determining mining depth is limited; civil servants doing inspection work mainly measure manually with tape measures...

It can be said that Tan Bien district is currently one of the localities with many mines exploiting mineral resources for landfill in the province. With the records of mineral exploitation activities in Tan Bien district, as well as the shortcomings and limitations that the district People's Committee has acknowledged, it can be seen that the public disclosure of land prices for landfill at the mine, the issue of reserve assessment, tax management, invoices for minerals, the issue of speculation, hoarding... need to be addressed by competent authorities to clarify so that the exploitation of land for landfill is carried out in an orderly and lawful manner, limiting tax and resource losses.

Tam Hoan

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