Authorities in the southern province of Tay Ninh have recently pulled
the plug on 10 industrial cluster projects that failed to make any progress in
the last ten years and have given back land plots previously zoned for the
project to their original owners/farmers.
The sluggish projects, spanning a
total of 1,149 hectares in seven districts and towns of the province, have been
canceled due to their unattractiveness to investors, according to Huynh Van
Quang, deputy chairman of the provincial People’s Committee.
“It is difficult for the projects
to be implemented given the poorly-developed traffic infrastructure in their
locations,” said Quang.
“Hence, they should be revoked as
soon as possible to ease the difficulties of local residents who have to give
their land to serve the project investment.”
For local farmers, having their
agricultural land zoned for industrial development means they have to lose the
land and sometimes have to relocate, with investors only paying them inadequate
compensation for site clearance.
Even worse is the fact that the
investors would usually receive the right to exploit the land taken from
farmers, but fail to start any construction on the area.
As they did not know when the
investors would actually start working, farmers had to live on their own land
with constant concern.
They would not grow new crops or
build new houses as the investors could suddenly begin their site clearance
tasks.
Happy news
Ho Minh Hai, whose 1.5 hectare of
paddy field had been zoned to give way to the Bau Don Industrial Cluster in Go
Dau District, said he is happy that the project has been canceled.
Like Hai, many other farmers in
the locality were worried when the land was revoked from them as these elders
did not know what to do other than agricultural production.
The Bau Don Industrial Cluster
was planned for development in 2008, but 170 farmer households have never seen
any investors coming to the area since then.
“As their land was zoned for the
industrial cluster, farmers were not allowed to build houses, transfer, or
covert the land use purposes,” said Tran Van Minh, chairman of Bau Don Commune
People’s Committee.
Meanwhile, local authorities are
eying other cancelation and land-returning plans.
Out of the 13 industrial clusters
planned in the locality, only two are operating, with four having
infrastructure investors, said Quang, the province’s chairman, adding that the
remaining seven projects still remain inactive.
“The province will continue
inspection and pull the plug on any ineffective projects,” he promised.
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