Joint circular 09/2003/TTLT/BNN-BQP

Subjects governed by this Circular are households which are allocated, arranged and stabilized in areas covered by socio-economic development projects managed by the Defense Ministry under the State's annual plans, including households living in the project areas and households coming from other areas, taking into account households migrating from their residential places upon the Government's requests. To give priority to allocating and arranging on-the-spot households (in communes, rural districts) and ethnic minority households which are encouraged to settle down for sedentary farming.

This Circular shall apply to areas covered by:

- Projects on socio-economic development in communes meeting with great difficulties in deep-lying and remote regions in combination with the consolidation of national defense and security in strategic geographical areas, invested by military zones or military economic corps.

- Projects on population relocation for socio-economic development and new economic projects, invested by army units.

- Projects on stabilization and relocation of population in border communes, invested by borderguard or other army units.

The relocation, arrangement, stabilization and reception of inhabitants in project areas shall be carried out on the basis of households' voluntariness, in accordance with the projects' objectives and schedules already approved in terms of both quantity and quality. The projects must ensure essential infrastructure conditions, residential and arable land and making use of the most of unreclaimed land in order to receive inhabitants according to the State's plans and requirements and create conditions for them to soon stabilize their life and production activities.- (Summary)