(HBO) – After six years implementing the national target programme on new-style rural area building, Dong Mon commune of Lac Thuy district has met only 10 out of 19 criteria.


The road connecting Dong Mon commune and Lac Hung commune in Yen Thuy district remains rough.

 As a remote area locating about 19km from the district’s centre, Dong Mon commune has three villages with 358 households and 1,048 people. The commune’s terrain is mostly low hills; the local population live mainly on forestry, with 1,500 hectares of acacia trees (including 72 ha newly planted this year). Although the tree areas bring long-term and stable income, it is difficult for locals to make breakthrough in economic development to raise incomes.

 Over the past years, communal authorities have encouraged locals to diversify crops in the direction of optimizing natural and soil conditions of the locality to produce agricultural products with higher economic values.

 Currently, the commune is facing difficulties in fulfilling the criterion on rural transportation. So far, only 27.55 percent of main roads in villages and hamlets have been concreted, while all roads across fields are still dirt roads. Many roads in the commune are still rough with holes, affecting trading activities, such as roads in Cu, Von and Dung villages, the road to Lien Hoa and Lac Hung commune of Yen Thuy district.

 The criterion on irrigation has also not been completed yet because the work requires large investment, long-term plans with the cooperation between the government and the community. Over the past years, the commune authorities have focused on upgrading the canal and irrigation system to serve agricultural production.

 Since early 2018, making full use of support resources, the commune has repaired village-to-village roads as well as roads inside villages, while clearing bushes along the roads and cleaning up the environment.

 Under the movement of solidarity in building new-style rural areas, the local community contributed many working days to repair 20km of roads, clear 13,000 square metres of land along roads, and dredge open sewers.

 Many role models have emerged during the implementation of the movement, including Mr. Nguyen Duc Thai and Mrs. Bui Thi Thao, both from Dung village, and Mr. Bui Duc Lam from Cu village who donated land, construction materials and working days to build roads and cultural infrastructure system. 

 However, many criteria have remained uncompleted. The commune’s health care station has been degraded, while local schools lack learning equipment, the collection of garbage remains spontaneous, and many locals still live in temporary and dilapidated houses./.

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