The Prime Minister has just issued Decision No. 1457/QD-TTg approving the Project "Review and finalize policies on migration and resettlement of irrigation and hydropower projects".

Ensuring a stable life for resettled people

The Prime Minister has just issued Decision No. 1457/QD-TTg approving the Project "Review and finalize policies on migration and resettlement of irrigation and hydropower projects". 

The viewpoint of the project is to institutionalize guidelines and policies of the Party and the State to ensure stable living standards for people resettled in irrigation and hydropower projects in order to solve the inevitable practice. existing problems, limitations and will continue to occur; strengthen the role of State management in the field of migration, resettlement of irrigation and hydropower projects.

The proposal sets out the objective of reviewing and assessing the real situation of policies on migration, resettlement of irrigation and hydropower projects; propose tasks, solutions and orientations for building and perfecting the system of legal policies on migration and resettlement of irrigation and hydropower projects to support and create conditions for resettled people develop production, increase income and stabilize life, and propose solutions to help resettled people equal access to basic social services (including education, health care, housing). , water and sanitation, information) in new places, contributing to stabilizing the situation of security and order, socio-economic development in localities receiving resettlement.

One of the tasks of the Project is to review and finalize specific policies on migration and resettlement of irrigation and hydropower projects; implementing the Social Security Policy to help resettled people in irrigation and hydropower projects equal access to basic social services.

Social security policies

Son La hydropower resettlement: Supporting people in production and business.

Support policies on education and training: For members of resettled households being multidimensionally poor households, there is at least one index of education (education level of adults; children's school attendance). ) to be implemented with the support policies on education and training like members of poor households based on income criteria. For members of resettled households who are multidimensionally poor, lacking other basic social service indicators, they are entitled to the support policies on education and training like members of near-poor households.

The policy on support for health insurance is implemented in accordance with the Government's Resolution No. 40 / NQ-CP dated May 10, 2017 on the Government's regular meeting in April 2017.

Housing support policies, reviewing the implementation of the Prime Minister's Decision No. 33/2015 / QD-TTg of August 10, 2015, on housing support policies for poor households according to the poverty line, 2016 - 2020.

Policies on support of daily-life water, for multi-dimensional poor households who are resettled and lacking indices of living water source, they are entitled to the same as beneficiaries of the policy on daily-life water support under the Decision. No. 2085 / QD-TTg dated October 31, 2016 of the Prime Minister on specific policies to support socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the period of 2017-2020.

Sanitation support (hygienic latrines), for multidimensionally poor households who are resettled households with a lack of sanitation index, they will be supported as beneficiaries of the policy of supporting the construction of hygienic latrines. According to Article 32 of Circular No. 43/2017 / TT-BTC dated May 12, 2017 of the Ministry of Finance, stipulating the management and use of non-business funding for the implementation of the National Target Program on Rural Construction new period 2016 - 2020.

Information support policies, for multidimensionally poor households who are resettled households who lack information, they are entitled to the same as beneficiaries of information support policy as prescribed in Decision No. 467 / QD. -TTg dated April 25, 2019 of the Prime Minister on integrating supporting policies on information and propagation for poor households, ethnic minorities, mountainous, remote, border areas, Islands.

Other supporting policies for poverty reduction, poor households with multidimensional poverty are entitled to support policies as for near-poor households.

Continuing to implement policies to support residential land, productive land, legal support and other policies for poor ethnic minority households, mountainous areas, poor districts, poor communes, villages and special villages hard.

Taking care of accommodation for people in the planned areas is a matter of proper care, ensuring a balance between the effectiveness of the projects and the legitimate rights of the people.

Regarding policies to support production development, livelihood diversification and replication of poverty reduction models: comply with the Prime Minister's Decision No. 1722 / QD-TTg of September 2, 2016 approving the Chapter National target program of sustainable poverty reduction period 2016 - 2020.

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Industry and Trade, Finance, Planning and Investment, Justice, Information and Communications, and the Commission. ethnic minorities and other concerned ministries and branches review and study the proposal of amending, supplementing and promulgating new legal documents on policies on compensation, support, resettlement and stabilization support. life and production for people after resettlement irrigation and hydropower projects, submit to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision.

People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities shall allocate local budgets to implement policies under this Scheme, study and formulate local poverty reduction policies; building solutions and models suitable to the locality; effectively organize the implementation of policies and laws on migration, resettlement and poverty reduction; strengthen inspection, examination and handling of violations; promoting democracy, openness and transparency; building the capacity of grassroots administrations and officials directly involved in compensation, assistance, resettlement and poverty reduction.

Hoang Anh