Hundreds of thousands of motorbike taxi drivers in Rwanda will be able to change petrol motorbikes into electric cars Bloomberg reported that the Rwandan government has partnered with a local company, Rwandan Electric Mobility, to deploy electric scooters in the country’s capital, Kigali. Rwanda has a population of more than 12.6 million people living in an area of ​​26,338 square kilometers, and is the most densely populated country in Africa. The motorbike taxi industry, motorbike taxi service, or delivery is a popular method of transportation and delivery in this country, thanks to its affordable prices and access to all corners of the country. Therefore, the initiative to convert gasoline-powered motorbikes that are nearing the end of their service life to electric ones, will help about 100,000 current motorbike owners to have new and zero-emission vehicles. This move not only reduces the overall carbon footprint but also effectively extends the life of these vehicles. It also greatly reduces maintenance costs, car owners don’t need to worry about oil changes and refueling their vehicles. To launch the project, the Rwanda Environmental Management Agency (REMA) signed a contract with Rwandan Electric Mobility, and technical and financial support from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) was also secured to promote the project. project progress. The trial phase, which is expected to last for 6 months, will convert about 30,000 motorbike taxis currently using gasoline engines to electric motorbikes.

Illustration. The Ministry of Transport has just sent an official letter No. 3327 / BGTVT – CQLXD to the Lam Dong Department of Transport, requesting this unit to speed up the implementation of the 27 Highway Project, the Lien Khuong bypass. Accordingly, the Ministry of Transport requires the Department of Transport of Lam Dong to actively coordinate with the local Site Clearance Council (site clearance) to quickly resolve the difficulties and problems in site clearance work; speed up the construction procedures for the construction of the resettlement area to arrange for households, hand over the entire site to the project before April 30, 2021, organize the construction to meet the required schedule. . Lam Dong Department of Transport is also urgently requested to direct the Project Management Board, the Consultant and the Contractor to strictly control the quality of materials gathered, used at the site, and resolutely remove materials that do not meet the requirements. bridge; strengthening construction quality management to comply with project technical instructions; perform the pre-acceptance test and make payment according to regulations. At the same time, direct the contractor to be proactive, increase the mobilization of machinery, equipment, human resources, materials and materials to speed up the construction progress for the positions with available premises, organize overtime. , increase crew for construction to compensate for the slow progress. For the positions that have the conditions for construction ground, Lam Dong Department of Transport instructs the contractor and related units to focus on completing the completion of each item, each section of the route has been handed over. by, controlling construction to ensure quality, progress, traffic safety, labor safety, and environmental sanitation according to requirements, meeting project progress. In case the locality cannot hand over the entire site according to the set schedule, the Lam Dong Department of Transport and related units will urgently organize the construction of completion of the work items at the locations that have been handed over. by the approved design, report to the Ministry of Transport before May 30, 2021 to consider allowing the determination of technical stops and hand over the status quo of the positions still facing the ground to the local management. “The Ministry of Transport will report to the Prime Minister on the difficulties and problems related to the site clearance, so it has not completed disbursement under the Prime Minister’s direction and will consider investing in construction and completion. the road sections still have problems with the ground when appropriate funding sources are available ”, stated the dispatch of the Ministry of Transport. Highway 27 project, Lien Khuong bypass is a project with a small investment capital scale (about 121 billion VND according to the initial investment decision and 235 billion VND after the adjustment) but it can be classified in the group. projects with the most “rubber” construction period in the transport infrastructure sector. It is known that, on the basis of the proposal of the People’s Committee of Lam Dong province, in 2008, the Ministry of Transport issued Decision No. 1051 / QD – BGTVT approving the Project of Highway 27, avoiding Lien Khuong airport, using main bond capital. and assigned to Lam Dong Department of Transport as an investor. According to the original plan, Lam Dong Department of Transport will have to complete 2 construction and installation packages of the Project after 24 months of construction (2010). However, due to the transportation work, there are many problems and the capital arrangement for Highway 27 project, the section to avoid Lien Khuong airport is too scattered and fragmented (2009: 10 billion VND, 2010: 10 billion VND, 2011 : 10 billion VND, 2012: 14 billion VND) so this work was constantly out of breath, failed to meet the set progress and was forced to stop and extend the construction progress from 2012. At the time of starting to extend progress, Package 02 (construction and installation of the flyover and 4 branches intersecting with Lien Khuong highway – Da Lat) has just completed 2 abutments, 2/3 pillars and two-span girder installation. record. Package No. 01 (construction of 6 km of road) has not been executed yet. Due to the important role of the project and at the request of the locality, in January 2019, the Ministry of Transport approved the adjustment of the 27th Highway Lien Khuong bypass project and prioritized it to be included in the list of 14 traffic projects. The most urgent matter is decided by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly to approve the plan to use VND 15,000 billion from the contingency capital of the medium-term public investment plan with state budget capital in the 2016-2020 period. After this adjustment, in addition to the total project investment increased twice; The work completion progress is also extended to the end of December 2020. Although sufficient capital has been allocated to restart the project, but by November 2020), the volume value of Package 01 has only reached about 10.5 billion (reaching 16% of the contract value). Due to the slow clearance work, especially the construction of the resettlement area to arrange for about 40 households to be resettled, many procedures have not been completed, so the Ministry of Transport is forced to extend the progress. to April 30, 2021. However, according to the report of Lam Dong Department of Transport and field inspection results on April 10, 2021, there are still 26 households (0.8km) on the route that have not yet handed over the site and about 0, 8km has handed over the site but cannot approach the project for construction due to problems at the beginning of the route which have not been handed over the site; The project must arrange resettlement for 40 households, Duc Trong District People’s Committee is currently preparing construction drawing design documents to implement and hand over the resettlement rate. Currently, Lam Dong province has started in the rainy season, so in case the volume of the problem is not handed over early to the contractor to speed up the construction progress, the completion of the project will not be guaranteed. judgment according to the required progress. On the other hand, the project uses the medium-term excess capital in the 2016-2020 period, so it must be fully disbursed in 2021, otherwise the project is not zoned to transfer capital to other projects to meet the disbursement schedule. in accordance with the direction of the Prime Minister.

Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Van Sinh. Photo: VGP

This is the information emphasized by Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Van Sinh during the meeting to provide information to a number of press agencies about the situation of land fever, virtual land fever in some localities in recent years.

There are many “risks” in real estate transactions

Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Sinh said that in the first quarter of 2021, the real estate market had many fluctuations, although the volume of real estate transactions under the supervision of the Ministry of Construction, was only about 70% of the transactions in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Real estate prices increased slightly, especially apartments also increased from 5% to 10%. In particular, land prices have had a hot, local phenomenon in some localities across the country such as areas around Hanoi, Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, Bac Ninh, Bac Giang, Hoa Binh, Phu Tho, Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai. , Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, Binh Thuan …

Many people leave their jobs and production to trade land, creating local land fever phenomenon and risks affecting socio-economic development in the area.

It is worrying that many real estate transactions have emerged problems affecting the interests of people, especially real estate transactions with ineligible legal conditions.

“That is a situation that many projects that have not invested in technical infrastructure have real estate transactions; Many transactions took place with forest land, agricultural land, production and business land that has not been used for investment in real estate projects. It can be said that these transactions do not guarantee legal requirements, potential risks for people when investing in real estate in the past time, “Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Sinh warned.

Five causes of land fever – virtual land fever

According to Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Van Sinh, in recent years, most localities have been very active in preparing provincial planning according to the provisions of the Law on Planning 2017. At the same time, localities are also interested in the planning investment and development of urban projects, housing projects, and large-scale technical infrastructure projects. Urban upgrading is also happening synchronously.

Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Sinh stated, “The planning and announcement of the local planning has not been made public and transparent for timely orientation for people and businesses, leading to investors and businesses. The real estate has taken advantage of this lack of transparency to push land prices up as in the past “.

Land fever has occurred in some localities in recent years. Photo: VGP

Second, due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, the bank interest rates, including those at commercial banks, are very low. This investment channel is not attractive to people to send money. Therefore, at present, many investors and people with idle money tend to invest in real estate transactions because they think that this transaction is safe, effective and has opportunities for the future.

The third reason, according to Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Sinh, in recent years, the investment in the development of housing, real estate and urban projects has also faced many difficulties, especially legal procedures. Land management, investment and construction are still difficult, leading to a limited supply of real estate.

Next is the investment and development of affordable commercial housing, social housing, for the poor in urban areas as well as workers in industrial zones that have not been given adequate attention by localities. leading to a lack of social housing supply, not meeting the needs and needs of the current people.

Fifth, now some localities have had a policy of increasing land prices according to the roadmap with an increase of 15-20%. Although this land price increase has not affected much real estate transactions today, because real estate transactions have now been allocated land and invested in the past, but the policy of increasing land prices has affected. affecting psychology and the increase in real estate prices in recent times.

Transparency about planning and implementation progress of projects

Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Sinh said that over the past time, the Government and the Prime Minister have focused on directing ministries and localities to drastically step in and take specific solutions to prevent and strictly deal with the phenomenon. virtual land fever in some localities.

Specifically, focus on building and perfecting the legal system related to land, real estate investment, construction and trading to remove difficulties, especially in terms of investment order and procedures.

The Government has submitted and approved by the National Assembly the amended Investment Law, the amended Construction Law, the decrees have also been issued by the Government such as the Decree guiding the Construction Law, the Decree guiding the Investment Law; Amended Decrees related to the Decree on management and development of housing projects and guide the Housing Law and the Decree on social housing development.

Along with that, the Government has also instructed the State Bank of Vietnam to better control credit, especially credit in real estate, to avoid “double risks” in this area.

At the same time, to direct localities to focus on investment in developing social housing, cheap commercial housing to meet the housing needs of people, especially workers in industrial zones.

For localities, Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Van Sinh suggested that in the coming time, focus on completing and approving planning projects, paying attention to urban development projects, housing projects. ensure synchronous technical infrastructure, social infrastructure and full legal status for real estate projects, control real estate transactions to ensure demand.

Continuing to make public information about the planning and implementation progress of projects in order to make information transparent, prevent the spread of rumors, speculation to push prices and profit from a number of projects that have occurred. out in the past.

In addition, there should be strict measures to prevent the transfer of land use rights, division of plots, sale of land in some areas that have not yet been allowed to invest. Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Van Sinh proposed to manage and control the purchase and sale of real estate transactions many times to better control the increase in land prices, especially through management measures. very good organizations and individuals in real estate transactions and brokerage.

At the same time, it is suggested that localities in the coming time strengthen the inspection, examination and strictly handle cases of real estate investment and trading in contravention of regulations, especially ghost projects, projects are not enough. Legal documents, real estate business conditions.

For real estate businesses, it is necessary to strictly comply with the investment order and procedures, especially the procedures for land allocation and construction investment, so that real estate investment and business projects are fully fully legal, complying with regulations on construction investment in real estate projects.

In the coming time, businesses need to pay attention to invest in real estate and housing projects to ensure synchronous technical infrastructure, social infrastructure, legal status and do business, business transactions. to trade real estate in accordance with law.

Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Sinh also recommended that people and businesses who are interested in the real estate field are very calm, wary of rumors, study and carefully consider legal documents of projects. Real estate transactions and real estate transactions only when there is clear legal documents, in accordance with the provisions of the law.