Gia Loi Resettlement Area, Giang Ly Commune, Khanh Vinh District has been put into use, providing safe and secure homes for those facing natural disaster risk from their dangerous neighborhood adjacent to rivers...
Gia Loi Resettlement Area, Giang Ly Commune, Khanh Vinh District has been put into use, providing safe and secure homes for those facing natural disaster risk from their dangerous neighborhood adjacent to rivers.
Gia Loi Resettlement Area is located far from rivers, nearly 1 km from Giang Ly Commune People’s Committee Office. A resident named Ha Linh says he opens a grocery shop in the resettlement area and gets an income of nearly VND150,000 a day. Besides, he has earning from 2ha of Acacia trees. The income temporarily meets the living expense of his 5-member family. His family used to live by the Trang River submersible bank, Gia Rit Village and experience the fear of flood risk in rainy seasons when flood water rose rapidly, submerging his house in nearly 1 meter in water sometimes. He had to move all his furniture and valuables to upper levels and evacuate his kids to other safe places.
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A woman named Ca Lien, Gia Lo Village, feels safe and secure in her new home. Her family used to stay in a small house constructed by the wattle and daub with corrugated iron roofing and get earning from some porches of peas and wheat. In rainy seasons, they used to face life-threatening flood risks. Now, things have changed. Her family is living in a safe place. Besides, she has been offered 0.5ha farm land under a beneficial policy for ethnic minority farmers in lack of land for cultivation.
Ha Linh and Ca Lien are among 84 households benefiting from the project on building resettlement houses, especially for communities affected by Trang River landslides. Pi Nang Ha Duy, Vice-Chairman of Giang Ly Commune People’s Committee says the construction is really helpful to residents in flood-threatening areas. 100% of the residents have moved to the new place. Each house is 35 m2 worth VND70 million with power and water supply.
Besides, additional VND10 million housemoving aid is offered to each family. In addition, the commune also has land use planning for schools to facilitate students’ travel. The VND10 billion system of water supply taken from Edu Waterfall watershed was funded by Medical Committee Netherlands-Vietnam in 2007. However, the construction was damaged by typhoon Damrey in 2017 and the repair work has been proposed.
The resettlement area construction began in 2016 and put into use on January 16, 2018. The 5ha construction has 3 zones with 3 roads, nearly 1km in length, 4m roadways, 16m boundary lines. The project is more than VND18.5 billion, including more than VND10 billion for construction and VND5.7 billion for compensation.
Phu Lam
Translated by N.T
