VietNamNet Bridge – Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh yesterday asked the Ha Noi People’s Committee to verify information according to which nearly 5,000 people risked having their homes destroyed.

Nearly 5,000 people risked having their homes destroyed in Dinh Cong Ward, Hoang Mai District in Ha Noi to build a complex containing an ecological park, villas, high-rise residential quarters and a plaza. – Photo laodong.com.vn

The information was reported in a story in the Lao dong (Labour) newspaper, published on August 19. According to the story, nearly 1,000 households, in which 5,000 people resided, in Dinh Cong Ward, Hoang Mai District in Ha Noi, were asked to tear down their houses.

The land on which their homes were constructed would then be transferred to the Sao Vang Joint-stock Company.

The company would use the land to build a complex containing an ecological park, villas, high-rise residential quarters and a plaza.

The story said nearly 1,000 households were unhappy with the project because many of them had been issued land use right certificates and had lived there for dozens of years.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh asked the Ha Noi People’s Committee to verify the facts and report to the Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc before September 15.

Research of the Lao dong (Labour) newspaper’s correspondent showed that in May 1972, the Ha Noi People’s Committee licensed for the Dinh Cong vegetables farm to widen the farm in Dinh Cong Ward, Hoang Mai District.

In June 2003, the Sao Vang Company signed contract with the Ha Noi Agricultural Development and Investment Co Ltd to use land of the Dinh Cong vegetable farm to build parks, ecological areas and amusement area.

In May 2004, the municipal people’s committee asked the Ha Noi Fruit, Vegetable and Technology Centre, which managed the Dinh Cong vegetable farm, to set up projects of ecological park.

In December 2005 the Ha Noi People’s Committee approved a detailed scheme of Hoang Mai District. And concerned organisations joined hand with the Sao Vang Company to set up related scheme.

After many years of delaying, by the end of June this year, deputy chairman of the Ha Noi People’s Committee Nguyen The Hung said that setting up scheme of the ecological park was too slow.

But local residents said that the scheme was not suitable to the land’s function which was approved by former Prime Minister Phan Van Khai in the Decision 108/1998/QĐ-TTg issued on June 20, 1998.

Source: VNS