A conference examining the implementation of the Vietnam LandAdministration Project (VLAP), which was designed to help Vietnamdevelop a modern land management system, was held in the centralprovince of Khanh Hoa on June 23.

Hosted by the Ministry ofNatural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and the World Bank in Vietnam,the event brought together over 100 delegates from state agencies andnine localities involving in the project.

The MoNRE-built projecthas a total investment of 100 million USD, including 75 million USDfunded by the WB. It has been carried out from 2008 in Hanoi, thenorthern provinces of Hung Yen and Thai Binh, central Binh Dinh, KhanhHoa and Quang Ngai provinces, and the Mekong Delta provinces of TienGiang, Ben Tre and Vinh Long.

Scheduled to be completed by June,2015, the project aims to develop a perfect land management system inthe targeted cities and provinces and to help people utilise landinformation services, including instructions on land use rightcertificates.

Speaking at the event, Deputy Minister of NaturalResources and Environment Nguyen Manh Hien urged authorities at alllevels to speed up the granting of land use right certificates to theusers.

He also stressed the need to intensify communications onthe project to people, while focusing on solving difficulties indeploying the project.

Under the project, more than 30,400 haof land were measured and drawn on an administrative map and over250,000 land use right certificates issued in the first half of thisyear.

To date, nearly 1.59 million land use rightcertificates have been handed over to people in the benefitedlocalities, according to the MoNRE.-VNA