Old market, spontaneous market bustling with traders
Pong Drang Market (Pong Drang town, Krong Buk district) was invested and built by Dak Lak People’s Committee 2017 (using non-budget capital) and assigned HTC Market Investment Construction and Trading Company Limited (HTC Company) to carry out the construction.
In September 2021, Pong Drang market was completed on an area of 8,800m2 with 312 points Trading in fire prevention and fighting technical infrastructure systems that are methodically invested and guaranteed to comply with regulations. The total construction investment cost is over 37 billion VND.
However, although Krong Buk district has issued many documents requesting small traders to leave the old spontaneous market to enter the new market to trade and operate, the small traders Merchants still procrastinate and do not act.
When the government aggressively mobilized propaganda to relocate, small merchants who had been in the market for a few days were “not used to it” so they returned to their old places.</p >
At the old Pong Drang market, encroachment on the sidewalk to Business and trade happen regularly. Business households also trade spontaneously along both sides of Ho Chi Minh Road and some other routes, affecting the security and order situation, losing traffic safety and not ensuring food safety.
Yes According to the 2023 land use plan of Krong Buk district approved by the province, the location of the old Pong Drang market will be invested in the Green Park project.
The new market does not have a single customer
On the contrary, the entire new market, thousands of square meters wide, has only one small merchant’s clothing kiosk operating.
Ms. La Thanh Huyen (41 years old, clothes business) said that in 2021 she could borrow money from relatives. 200 million VND to rent a business location at Pong Drang new market and move in to do business. After being in operation for a while, the other stalls all left, only Ms. Huyen’s stall remained.
“The whole market now only has my stall open, and sometimes I’m afraid of thieves. robbed because it was too deserted, but I tried to stick around so that some regular customers would know to stop by. I invested a lot of money in the store and now if I leave, I don’t know where to shop, so I hope the authorities will have a solution. so that the market can operate stably” Ms. Huyen shared.
Not only Ms. Huyen, 80 small traders who bought kiosk stalls at Pong Drang new market have signed a collective petition asking the provincial leaders and agencies to have solutions to help.
According to a small trader, Know the reason why it is difficult to do business in the new market because the old market has not been closed yet. The temporary markets have not been cleared, so small businesses refuse to relocate.
We are very worried because we borrowed a mortgage and spent a large amount of money to invest in renting a business location at the new market. But business is sluggish and there are no customers to buy, causing many of us to fall into a very difficult debt situation.
I hope the government will be more drastic than not allowing a town to The 2 markets are fine as they are now and there will soon be a specific timeline for resolution so we don’t have to wait anymore” the small trader spoke up.
The province directs drastic handling
The province directs drastic handling
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In addition to the small businesses calling for help many times, the investor, HTC Company, also repeatedly petitioned the Krong Buk district government to remove problems, but after 2 years of calling for help, the matter still has not been resolved. .
Recently, HTC Company continued to call for help to the Provincial Party Committee of Dak Lak Province to consider solving problems for businesses and small traders.
On November 3, Dak Lak Provincial People’s Committee announced reported the conclusion of Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee Pham Ngoc Nghi. Accordingly, the province assigned departments to support Krong Buk District People’s Committee in developing a compensation plan to support small business households who did business at the old market to ensure compliance with regulations.</p >
Funding support comes from the funding source for implementing the Green Park Project at the old Pong Drang market area.
Instruct the Krong Buk District People’s Committee and investors to quickly calculate a suitable plan to arrange for small business households to agree to enter the new market to operate to avoid In case a complaint occurs.
Assign the People’s Committee of Krong Buk district to urgently calculate and develop a relocation plan according to an appropriate time schedule. For small businesses that do not agree to enter the new market, enforcement will be implemented according to regulations.
Talking with Dan Trireporter, Mr. Phan Hoang Lam – Vice Chairman of Krong Buk District People’s Committee – said that the district has established 2 groups to Resolve problems related to Pong Drang market.
In which a group will implement a plan to clear, compensate, clear corridors, enforce evictions at the old Pong Drang market, and clear spontaneous markets with incorrect business locations. regulations; The remaining group mobilizes small businesses and people to comply with the policy of clearing the market.
“The compensation and support plan to implement the Green Park project at the old market will be publicized in This December, the district is determined to implement drastic instructions to put the new market into operation,” Mr. Lam emphasized.
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