Better living conditions for Khmer in Soc Trang
VietNamNet Bridge – The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang has implemented a series of policies to upgrade its socio-economic infrastructure and to improve living conditions for the Khmer ethnic people.
Thanks to the Government's Programmes 134 and 135, national projects on agriculture and forestry development, and other local contributions, the province has built 397 facilities with a combined investment capital of more than VND247bil (roughly US$15.5mil). Transport constructions accounted for 70% of the projects, while irrigation, power and school facilities made up 30%.
By early 2007, the province had spent nearly VND161bil to build 28,600 houses for poor families, of which, 17,300 houses were handed over to Khmer ethnic people.
The province also carried out various social policies, including subsidies worth VND21.4bil on necessaries, housing assistance for 45,000 poor households and production development assistance for 3,400 households, most of them of Khmer ethnic community.
Through these efforts, hopefully Soc Trang province will successfully reduce the rate of Khmer poor households to 20% by the end of 2006 or 38.5% (according to the country's new criteria).
So far, 65.5% of Khmer households in rural areas have access to safe water, and more than 64% have access to the national electricity grid. 120,000 poor Khmer households in the province were provided with heath care insurance cards each year and nearly 500,000 patients benefited from free medical examinations.
The provincial authorities this year plan to build more than 10,000 new houses for poor Khmer ethnic people and speed up the transition of agricultural structure in order to facilitate socio-economic development in Khmer-inhabited areas.
The province is also working out a preferential credit policy for poor people, particularly those of Khmer ethnic minority, to help them increase their production.
Source: VNA
Thanks to the Government's Programmes 134 and 135, national projects on agriculture and forestry development, and other local contributions, the province has built 397 facilities with a combined investment capital of more than VND247bil (roughly US$15.5mil). Transport constructions accounted for 70% of the projects, while irrigation, power and school facilities made up 30%.
By early 2007, the province had spent nearly VND161bil to build 28,600 houses for poor families, of which, 17,300 houses were handed over to Khmer ethnic people.
The province also carried out various social policies, including subsidies worth VND21.4bil on necessaries, housing assistance for 45,000 poor households and production development assistance for 3,400 households, most of them of Khmer ethnic community.
Through these efforts, hopefully Soc Trang province will successfully reduce the rate of Khmer poor households to 20% by the end of 2006 or 38.5% (according to the country's new criteria).
So far, 65.5% of Khmer households in rural areas have access to safe water, and more than 64% have access to the national electricity grid. 120,000 poor Khmer households in the province were provided with heath care insurance cards each year and nearly 500,000 patients benefited from free medical examinations.
The provincial authorities this year plan to build more than 10,000 new houses for poor Khmer ethnic people and speed up the transition of agricultural structure in order to facilitate socio-economic development in Khmer-inhabited areas.
The province is also working out a preferential credit policy for poor people, particularly those of Khmer ethnic minority, to help them increase their production.
Source: VNA
4 comments:
Its all great for the best. Take a person out of their cultural frame, way of life, stick them in a square concrete box and tell them they are now better off then before. I really like the idea.
If we were animals! You can do that only if you can feed us everyday.
We are people, we need our land to work. Give people a house but if they do not have the resources to make a living, how are they going to survive?
What we need is for you to stop taking our farmland away. we rather live in homes built from our own hand and in our own land then to get relocated to an area and imprison in a square box call "home" with nothing to subsistence upon. What are we hamsters!
The VN gorvenment just showes off to international communities that VN is a good government who are care about its people. In fact, it violates human rights, and tries to hide its bad deeds. International communities should visit Kampuchea Krom, rather just sit and read VN reports in the office.
A Khmer Student
Everyone has visited south Vietnam,
including the US who spend nearly
30 years there fighting war, and
no one noticing any abuse going
on. Therefore, is it clear that
Ah Khmer-Yuons Kmean Srok are on
hallucinatic drug. Doesn't that
make sense?
Eh ignorant 8:17 AM. you need to open your eyes bigger and your ears wider to understand why others don't care to say anything even if they see the abuse caused by Yuan toward the native land Khmer Krom. It is purely business. It is US vs. China who will rule the world economy. Don't you see Chinese stocks keep dropping? Have you invested or you just waiting to steal money from the donors?
You called youself Khmer but you hate your own people who were born and have been living there for thousand years in KKK, you ought to be shot in the head. You talk purely Yuan not Khmer.
More than 4 million Yuan are living in Cambodia calling themselves Khmers and you are one of them.
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