Brightening up Yen Minh border villages

BHG - Na Khe is a border commune of Yen Minh District, more than 20 kilometres from the district centre. The commune has three border villages: Na Po, Ban Rao, and Seo Ho, with 229 households.

At the beginning of the 2020-2025 term, the roads to the border villages in Na Khe were all dirt roads, which had not yet invested in hardening. Therefore, people encountered many difficulties and obstacles in travel, especially when it rained.

New houses in Seo Ho Village, Na KheCommune.

Implementing the province's policy from 2022 to present, Yen Minh District has integrated capital from three national target programmes. The district also approved policies and arranged investment funds for inter-village roads to border villages in Na Khe.

Of the nearly 20 kilometres of roads that are being invested in, about five kilometres of concrete roads connecting the villages of Na Po toSeo Ho and Ban Rao toSeo Ho have been completed.Meanwhile, nearly 12 kilometres of road from Phu Ty Village to Na Po Village has been approved for investment.

Vang Dung Seng, Secretary of the Seo Ho Village Party cell, shared that every household is happy because moving in the village is now very convenient, whether it is raining or sunny, they no longer have to worry about mud and dust.

Electricity is connected to VangThi It's household inSeo Ho Village, Na KheCommune.

Not only being allocated resources to invest in traffic infrastructure, more than 200 households in three border villages of Na KheCommune have seen investment in grid electricity infrastructure to their doorsteps. As such, many families have been able to purchase electrical appliances to improve their material and spiritual lives, such as televisions, refrigerators, corn grinders, and mini rice huskers.

Yen Minh District has four border communes including: Na Khe, Bach Dich, Phu Lung, and Thang Mo, with 805 households living across 15 border villages.According to the review at the beginning of the 2020-2025 term, only two out of the 15 border villages in Yen Minh District have rural roads meeting the criteria for new-style rural areas, with 10 out of the 15 villages meeting the electricity criteria.

Concrete road connecting the villages of Na Po and Seo Ho in Na KheCommune.

To complete the goal of 100 percent of border villages having electricity infrastructure and rural roads meeting the criteria for new-style rural areas, the district needs to invest in upgrading the power line system and building five new power projects and hardening about 50 kilometres of rural roads.

To achieve the above goal, since 2021, Yen Minh District has approved the investment policy and supported concrete roads, and invested in electricity projects for villages without electricity grid.

Up to now, 15 out of 15 border villages of Yen Minh have seeninvestement in national grid infrastructure, meeting the criteria for new-style rural areas. It is expected that by the end of 2024, 11 out of 15 border villages will have rural roads meeting the criteria for new-style rural areas, reaching 73.33%.

The district will strive to complete the goal in 2025 according to the province's direction, helping border residents improve their material and spiritual lives, develop their economy with peace of mind, and contribute to firmly protecting the country's borders.