Hanoi was well on track to fulfilling its target of land use right
auction income for 2010 although some problems still remained
unresolved, said a high-ranking city official.
Nguyen Trong Dong, Deputy Director of Hanoi's Department of Natural
Resources and Environment said so far, 18 units had conducted auctions
for 11.7ha of land, raking in 2.5 trillion VND (125 million USD),
accounting for 97 percent of the city's planned budget income.
In December, the city will conduct more auctions in an attempt to earn
80 billion VND (4 million USD) more to fulfil the plan for the year.
Land in Thon Bon village, Ngo Thi Nham area, Dong Dung area in Ha Dong
district and Trau Quy commune in Gia Lam district will be up for auction
and is expected to bring in 370 billion VND (18.5 million USD) for the
city.
Dong said, however, there were still many problems which needed to be addressed.
Among them were the slow pace of land clearance and infrastructure
construction, and the lengthy task of preparing necessary documents.
In a recent meeting between city leaders and district officials on this
issue, many officials at district level said they were unsure about how
to implement Decree 17/2010/ND-CP on land auctions as the Government
had not issued guidelines.
Under the decree, local
authorities need to invite auctioneers from the city to attend the
auctions in a supervisory role. But many district officials said this
was both unnecessary and ineffective.
Tran Duc Nguyen,
deputy chairman of Thach That district People's Committee said his
district were unable to hold auctions due to this stipulation.
The district officials also pointed to bid rigging as a major problem.
Many land rights owners deliberately made high bids for adjoining land
to increase the value of their own, but then refused to pay after the
auction finished, said local officials.
An official of
Quoc Oai district suggested that the city should raise the deposit for
land auctions in order to tackle this problem.
Vu Hong
Khanh, deputy chairman of the city People's Committee said city
authorities would hold discussions with other related ministries to work
out feasible solutions to the remaining problems.
Khanh said that auction winners who failed to pay would have their land use rights revoked within 30 days.
He added auction boards and relevant authorities should closely cooperate to organise sales and strictly punish any violations./.
