Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Manh Hienhas directed the southern province of Vinh Long to speed up theimplementation of Vietnam’s new land administration system, known asVLAP, to meet its deadline of late 2015.
Started in 2008, theWorld Bank-funded project, worth 100 million USD, is meant to facilitateaccess to land information services by all stakeholders in nineselected provinces, including Vinh Long.
Nguyen The Dung, headof the project, informed Hien at a May 21 working session in thelocality that the province has involved its locals in registering,surveying and mapping over 132ha of land, or 92.4 percent of the total.
Vinh Long has also kept an eye on the ongoing sub-contracts,but only 11 out of 22 have been completed and 42 percent of totalcapital has yet to be disbursed.
Eight land registrationoffices and 107 wards, towns, and communes have so far received thenecessary information technology equipment.
The province haslaunched 22 technical assistance deals and operated a land databasesystem from the township to provincial levels.
In the comingtime, the locality will grant land use certificates to 28 remainingcommunes in districts of Long Ho and Mang Thit.
VLAP is nowunderway in Hanoi and the provinces of Hung Yen, Thai Binh, Quang Ngai,Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa, Tien Giang, Ben Tre and Vinh Long.-VNA
Started in 2008, theWorld Bank-funded project, worth 100 million USD, is meant to facilitateaccess to land information services by all stakeholders in nineselected provinces, including Vinh Long.
Nguyen The Dung, headof the project, informed Hien at a May 21 working session in thelocality that the province has involved its locals in registering,surveying and mapping over 132ha of land, or 92.4 percent of the total.
Vinh Long has also kept an eye on the ongoing sub-contracts,but only 11 out of 22 have been completed and 42 percent of totalcapital has yet to be disbursed.
Eight land registrationoffices and 107 wards, towns, and communes have so far received thenecessary information technology equipment.
The province haslaunched 22 technical assistance deals and operated a land databasesystem from the township to provincial levels.
In the comingtime, the locality will grant land use certificates to 28 remainingcommunes in districts of Long Ho and Mang Thit.
VLAP is nowunderway in Hanoi and the provinces of Hung Yen, Thai Binh, Quang Ngai,Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa, Tien Giang, Ben Tre and Vinh Long.-VNA