VietNamNet Bridge - According to the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment--Nguyen Minh Quang, many businesses have made fat profit from urban land acquisition due to loosened management.

 

 

Many people have suggested the removal of land acquisition for the socio-economic purpose. What is the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s view on this issue?

The social and economic purposes are fairly wide. However, if this regulation is removed, how will the state deal with social-economic projects, such as industrial parks, economic zones?

As I understand, the opinion on removing urban land acquisition aims at infrastructure building projects, especially urban residential projects. This is where those who are allocated with land earn huge profit and also generates the most complaints. They compensate for one square meter of land with a few hundreds of thousand dong but they sold it for millions dong.
According to Minister Nguyen Minh Quang, land acquisition time too loose lead to large enterprises benefit disadvantaged people. Photo: Nguyen Hung.

What will the Ministry of Natural Resources do in this case?

We will take measures to control in the direction that businesses and investors are only the secondary investors. The State revokes land and auctions it in a fair and impartial way. The State will no longer allow investors to revoke land. Recently we have loosened management over land acquisition so many businesses have earned fat profit, such as urban residential projects in Hanoi.

How will be the compensation policy to avoid disadvantage to people with land acquisition?

We make compensation in accordance with the law, which goes with migration, resettlement, vocational training support, etc. The compensation is problematic, but it is important that after land acquisition, people’s lives are still stable.

I think that the policy cannot push people to the road. The majority of people involve in agriculture. If they do not have land, how can they live? Recently, at many new urban areas, after receiving compensation, people do not know what to do to live.

The complaints in the field of land account for more than 70% of the total. How many percentages of complaints does the Ministry aim to reduce?

Reducing complaints is the important target of the amended Land Law, but we do not set a specific percentage. Complaints are caused by many reasons, in which the very important cause is the implementation process.

Land acquisition has been conducted arbitrarily while the compensation policy is inadequate. The land acquisition process involves multiple agencies and the implementation may not be fair, open and transparent. We need to do to ensure the people's land-related rights and the official in duties must do a good job.

Another reason is the origin of land. Those who do not have the red book (land use right certificate) are only supported, not to be compensated when their land is revoked. Many people find that disadvantaged and lodge complaints for this reason.

What do you think about the proposal of recognizing the private ownership over land?

Perhaps we will gradually to move towards it but we need a certain time. This is a complex issue.

Tien Phong