Vietnam: Land clearance and resettlement of the Hoa Lac hi-tech park

1. Hanoi people’s committee shall establish the policies of compensation, aid and resettlement to assist land clearance of the hi-tech park, relevant to the practical status of land management of the local area and ensure the general policy stability of the project and the progress of land clearance of the hi-tech park.

2. Investment in the projects on compensation, aid, resettlement to assist land clearance shall be made in accordance with the following regulations:

- The chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee shall decide the policies of investment and invest in the projects on compensation, aid and resettlement.

- Hanoi People’s Committee shall approve any modification to design and estimate of projects on compensation, aid and resettlement (if any) in which the investment is decided by itself before the effective date of the Law on Public Investment of Vietnam.

- The People's Committee of Thach That and Quoc Oai districts and Hanoi People's Committee shall act as investors in compensation, aid and resettlement projects.

3. Hanoi People’s Committee shall take responsibility to construct and complete resettlement areas to assist with land clearance in Bac Phu Cat industrial zone (merged into the hi-tech park in accordance with the Decision No.1748/QD-TTg dated November 2nd, 2009 of the Prime Minister), funded by the city budget.

4. Land levies collected when allocating land to households in the resettlement areas and in service lands funded by state budget shall be paid to the Hanoi city budget. Annually, Hanoi people’s committee shall take responsibility to appropriate a sum proportional to the collected land levies for assisting the hi-tech park in its land clearance.

5. The final statement of compensation, aid and resettlement projects to assist the hi-tech park in its land clearance shall be made in accordance with applicable regulations and law.

View more details at Decree No. 74/2017/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from August 05, 2017.

- Ngoc Duyen -

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