Proactively remove arising obstacles, promptly hand over the North-South expressway site through Nghe An

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting. Also attending were leaders of Project Management Board 6, Ministry of Transport; representatives of departments and People's Committees of 6 related districts and towns.

Take the initiative to review and remove obstacles

Overview of the working session to review and urge site clearance for the North-South Expressway in June 2022. Photo by Nguyen Hai

Entering the working session, comradeLe Hong Vinh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's CommitteeEmphasize the urgency of the review to speed up site clearance progressNorth-South ExpresswayBecause according to Conclusion Notice No. 275/TB-UBND dated April 27, 2022, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the locality to complete it no later than May 30, 2022, but up to now, there are still 375 m that have not been cleared and handed over.

Representatives of Nghe An Department of Transport updated the site clearance situation as of June 14 and new arising problems and proposals. Photo by Nguyen Hai

Next, the representative of the Department of Transport reported that: The North-South Expressway project in the East, the section through Nghe An, was deployed from June 2019. Up to now, about 87.47/87.84 km of land has been cleared, reaching 99.57%, with 375 m remaining. Specifically,Nghi Son - Dien Chau section43.21/43.47km of land has been cleared, reaching 99.4%, with 260m remaining, of which Hoang Mai town still has 120m of unfinished land; Quynh Luu has 40m of unfinished land - main line; Dien Chau has 100m of unfinished land; Yen Thanh 220kV high voltage power line has 01 location.Dien Chau - Bai Vot section: 44.26/44.37 km of land has been cleared, reaching 99.74%, 115m remaining, of which Dien Chau still has 5m unfinished; Nghi Loc still has 10m unfinished; Hung Nguyen still has 100m unfinished.

Mr. Hoang Van Bo - Chairman of Quynh Luu District People's Committee reported the results of site clearance in the district. Photo by Nguyen Hai

In the spirit of openness and receptiveness, the localities also said: Compared to the original design on the model, when the expressway project took shape, there were new difficulties arising from practice that made the localities confused, not as initially proposed. This is the reason why the localities have requested the province and Project Management Board 6 to consider and adjust, along with considering and directing other issues when organizing forced site clearance or construction protection...

The intersection between National Highway 7 in Dien Cat Commune (Dien Chau) and the North-South Expressway is still stuck in many places because the high-voltage power lines have not been relocated. Photo by Nguyen Hai

Along with detailed reports on the remaining problems and the undelivered site, the localities also recommended to Project Management Board 6 of the Ministry of Transport to direct the construction units to ensure traffic safety on the route, ensure environmental sanitation, and facilitate people's daily life and production; repair damage to the off-line service roads and be responsible for restoring them to their original structure.

Continue to propose adjustments and additions to a number of items

At the meeting, along with recommendationsMinistry of Transportand Project Management Board 6 added a number of items that the province had previously proposed but had not been resolved or responded to, the province also proposed adding a number of items such as adding the Son Tinh drainage canal embankment system from Km 413+100 - Km 413+864 in Dien Doai commune (Dien Chau) to ensure drainage and avoid landslides on the west side of the North - South expressway when the flood season is coming; adding an underpass in Dien Yen commune, Dien Chau district at Km 415+180 to facilitate people's travel and agricultural production; the construction process of the Hoang Mai river overpass has blocked the river, blocking the flow, posing a risk of flooding when the flood season occurs, affecting production and people's lives.

A household in Hung Trung commune (Hung Nguyen) voluntarily demolished their house to hand over the land for the North-South expressway. Photo by Nguyen Hai

Previously, the Provincial People's Committee proposed to add a technical trench system to protect the D800 water pipeline on National Highway 48D, Quynh Vinh Commune, Hoang Mai Town due to its intersection with the highway and within the safety range for the National Highway 48D overpass; a plan to relocate a number of households with houses and constructions located within the road safety corridor in Quynh Vinh Commune, Hoang Mai Town; adjust the size of the underpass at Km 402+942.68 in Quynh Hoa Commune, Quynh Luu to match the planning of Provincial Road 537D; add an underpass at Km 414+094 in Dien Doai Commune, Dien Chau District to facilitate people's travel and agricultural production.

Based on the local recommendations, the representative of Project Management Board 6 responded and explained some contents; at the same time, he said that the appropriate recommendations of the localities had been considered by the Board and submitted to the competent authority. In the coming time, the Board hopes that the localities will create favorable conditions for coordination to speed up the construction progress before the rainy season comes. Regarding some newly arising proposals, besides some reasonable recommendations that will be considered, there are proposals that, because the approved project does not have any, are very difficult to resolve.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee concluded the working session. Photo by Nguyen Hai

Based on the recommendations of localities and departments, Mr. Le Hong Vinh - Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee shared the common difficulties of the project and localities. Currently, the remaining work is the most difficult, basically all localities agree on the June 30 deadline for handover, Hung Nguyen alone proposed to allow 1 household to reach the July 30 deadline, so it needs to be considered. However, even at the June 30 deadline, localities must seriously prepare and be ready with a plan to enforce the handover of the site and protect the construction. On the one hand, localities share information so that construction units can transport raw materials on the right route and route; limit going outside the route and overloading, causing damage to the road; closely monitor the dumping of waste, construction vehicles carrying the correct height and load; return the site after removing soil and rock; request the Project Management Board to remind construction units to ensure the environment when constructing through residential areas; pay attention to the functions of irrigation works, etc.

The North-South Expressway project through Nghe An province has a length of about 87.84 km, belonging to 2 sub-projects Nghi Son - Dien Chau and Dien Chau - Bai Vot, passing through Hoang Mai town and 5 districts: Quynh Luu, Yen Thanh, Dien Chau, Nghi Loc and Hung Nguyen, of which about 79.31 km (90%) passes through agricultural land, about 8.53 km (10%) passes through residential land; about 606 households must be resettled. It is expected thatThe total cost of site clearance is 3,498.9 billion VND (Nghi Son - Dien Chau 1,787.55 billion; Dien Chau - Bai Vot 1,711.35 billion VND) and is currentlyThe project is allocated 2,697,197 billion VND, of which Nghi Son - Dien Chau: 1,319.18 billion VND and Dien Chau - Bai Vot: 1,378,017 billion VND.