Accordingly, Suoi Trau commune was dissolved and
merged into Binh Son communes. Specifically, some hamlets of other affected
communes were also merged into Binh Son to build a new Binh Son commune. During
this period of administrative boundary adjustment, Suoi Trau commune with an
area ofabout 1,400 hectares and with more than 2,000 households (more than
5,800 people) of 3 hamlets located within the project area will lose its name on
the map. For many years, due to the airport planning, locals’ lives have been
faced up with a lot of difficulties and hardship and they have had to live with
a waiting mind for the commune’s dissolution, which has badly affected their
construction, life and economic activities. Therefore, for Suoi Trau commune’s
people the removal of their commune’s name on the map to become citizens of
another commune with a new name is also something happy. A lot of people in the
commune said: “The information on planning had been announced for a long time
and many delegations of the province and the central government had come for
their working sessions. However, this information has just reached people in
communes and hamlets. The fact that households of Suoi Trau commune are going to
become the citizens of Binh Son commune comes with both sadness and happiness
among locals. Locals are sad as this name has gone together with them for ten
years but will be removed. However, locals feel great because the project has
finally been carried out and they are ready to be moved to a new resettlement
place. For the leadership of local authorities, in addition to how to help
people to resettle it is essential to adjust the job positions of dozens of
officials of the commune after the commune is dissolved or merged. Therefore,
the most important thing is to stabilize these people’s mind after they are
moved to the new commune.
The adjustment of administrative boundaries for the
Long Thanh Airport project
Besides Suoi Trau commune, some other communes will
cut off part of the affected land due to the construction of the airport for the
merger into Binh Son commune. Specifically, Cam Duong commune had a larger
adjustment of 1,900 ha but it is now adjusted to more than 1,540 ha; Long An
commune from nearly 3,400 hectares to over 2,700 hectares; Long Phuoc commune
from over 4,000 hectares to over 3,740 hectares; Bau Can commune from 4,479
hectares to 4,447 ha. Particularly, Suoi Trau commune will be all cleared
because its 1,358 hectares is located inside the Long Thanh International
Airport project and 126 ha is merged into hamlet 3, Bau Can commune. After the
administrative boundaries in 6 communes are adjusted for the construction of
Long Thanh International Airport, Binh Son commune after the adjustment of its
area will increase to 7,420 hectares, 5,000 hectares of which is land of the
Long Thanh International Airport. The number of hamlets in the commune increase
to 17 including 11 old hamlets of the commune and 6 new hamlets merged from
other communes.
Specifically, there are Suoi Trau 1, Suoi Trau 2,
Suoi Trau 3 hamlets (former Suoi Trau commune), Cam Duong hamlet (adjusted from
Cam Duong commune), Long Phuoc hamlet (merged from Long Phuoc commune) and Xa
Hoang hamlet (merged from Long An commune). Particularly, the land area and
population of Bau Can commune in the project are quite small, so it does not
establish a new hamlet but is merged into Suoi Trau 2 hamlet in Binh Son new
commune. After the merger, the residents of new hamlets still live there waiting
to be resettled. As planned, after the Long Thanh International Airport project
comes into operation, the new hamlets mentioned above will automatically be
dissolved. The new Binh Son commune will be rebuilt with a communal
administrative center, including a headquarters for the People's Council and
People's Committee, with a floor area of over 1,100 sqm and one-stop-shop
office; the commune’s police headquarters; a Center for Culture, Sports and
Community Learning; internal technical infrastructure of administrative area;
and clinics.
Currently, Long Thanh district is completing the
dossiers submitted to the Department of Planning and Investment, and after
papers are approved, the construction bidding will start. Besides, there are
some other constructions that need to be built early such as Hamlet 2 Culture
House and Hamlet 2 Preschool.
The investment in rebuilding the infrastructure of
the new Binh Son commune is conducted to meet the requirements for managing a
large area of 7,420 hectares (including 5,000 hectares of the airport) and a
population of about 25,000 people. All civil servants, officials and
non-specialized officers of Suoi Trau commune will be moved to Binh Son commune,
and a few others will be arranged to work for neighboring communes according to
their wishes.
In addition to the construction of infrastructure
and rearrangement of the new Binh Son administrative machinery, the issues
related to people’s lives such as papers and documents of people moving from old
to new communes will be paid a special attention. At present, the commune’s
Public Security Department has prepared human resources ready to issue new
identity cards to people and family register to families.
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