A resettlement programme reserved for nomadic ethnic minority people has
been carried out too slowly and needs to gather all the available
resources to accomplish all of its goals by 2012, a supervising agency
has said.
The Nationality Council under the National Assembly
held a conference to review the introduction of resettlement policies
for ethnic minority households still engaging in nomadic lifestyle and
farming, in Hanoi on September 8.
The council reported that
since its launch in 2007, the programme has helped over 1,000 ethnic
minority households to switch to sedentary life and farming,
representing only 3.5 percent of the original target 29,700 households,
by the end of 2009.
The relevant State agencies and local
authorities carried out just 126 out of the 297 settlement projects over
the 2007-2009 period.
The council pointed to unmatched planning,
inaccurate reports on the programme’s beneficiaries and a very slow
disbursement of government funding as main reasons behind the situation.
When speaking at the conference, the Chairman of the
Nationality Council Ksor Phuoc, said that the Party and State’s
resettlement policy was aimed at helping nomadic ethnic minorities to
settle down and develop household-based economies to improve their
living conditions.
He also stated that the policy has met the people’s aspirations and the needs of various localities.
To
help all nomadic ethnic minority households to resettle by 2012 as
planned, the council has asked the National Assembly to speed up its
resettlement policies and programmes.
The ministries, sectors and
targeted localities need to revise and readjust their resettlement
projects to adapt them to the current situation as well as publicise the
State’s assistance policies to help beneficiaries relocate.
More
than 2.7 trillion VND has been allocated for the resettlement programme
and the initial outcomes will be reported to the National Assembly at
its eighth meeting this October./.
