Provincial leaders inspect the construction progress of the North-South expressway through Hung Nguyen.

In Hung Nguyen, the Steering Committee inspected the construction progress of resettlement areas in Hung Trung and Hung Yen Nam 1. At the Hung Yen Nam 1 resettlement area, the Vice Chairman criticized Hung Nguyen district for being slow in urging work because the construction progress of this area is very slow.

Provincial leaders inspect the progress of the Hung Yen Nam resettlement area. Photo: QA

After inspecting the site, the Provincial Steering Committee had a working session with the leaders of Hung Nguyen district. According to the report, the district has approved a compensation plan of 798,286 billion VND, and has disbursed 693,773 billion VND (100% of the capital for 2019 and 2020 has been disbursed; 2021 capital is 93,773/160 billion VND, reaching 58.6%). About 24.66/25.88 km of land has been cleared, reaching 95.29% (of which: Agricultural land 23.22 km, reaching 99%; Residential land, garden land 1.44 km, reaching 58.5%).

Hung Trung resettlement area is under construction. Photo: QA

For 12 resettlement areas, construction has been carried out at 12/12 locations, of which basic construction has been basically completed.11 positions; 11 plots have been divided into lots; 11 plots have been allocated to households; 1 plot has not been completed (Hung Yen Nam 1) due to the land clearance within the adjusted and supplemented scope. There is still 0.2km of agricultural land; residential land, garden land (1.02km/21 households) that has not been cleared.

Before the assigned progress, the leaders of Hung Nguyen district proposed recommendations and commitments on progress. Accordingly, agricultural land will be handed over in October 2021. For residential land, the focus will be on propaganda and mobilizing people to receive resettlement land, striving to complete by November 30. In addition, disbursement will be completed before December 2021. The district also requested the Ministry of Transport's Committee 6 to promptly construct the cleared route.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting in Hung Nguyen district. Photo: QA

At the meeting, sharing the difficulties of Hung Nguyen district, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee pointed out the progress of compensation for site clearance.Nghe Anis slow. Currently, Hung Nguyen district accounts for 1/3 of the total land clearance volume of the province, so the locality needs to mobilize the entire political system to complete the site clearance for the North-South expressway project. Focus on removing difficulties, helping people to speed up the handover progress, especially while the epidemic is under control. Especially speed up the progress of resettlement areas and infrastructure projects.

In cases where the regulations and policies have been properly resolved but the households do not comply, the organization will mobilize and make a plan to enforce land recovery and hand over the site according to regulations.

Hung Nguyen district leaders speak at the meeting. Photo: QA

Hung Nguyen needs to focus on accelerating the construction of infrastructure in the remaining resettlement area (Hung Yen Nam 1) to allocate land for households to build houses, and at the same time, mobilize households to build houses in resettlement areas soon to hand over the old residential areas. Increase the disbursement of the 2021 capital source that has been allocated to ensure compliance with the plan and progress required by the Ministry of Transport. Focus on drastically coordinating with electricity, telecommunications, and railway signal agencies to promptly relocate medium and low voltage power systems, telecommunications cables, and railway signals in a timely manner.

Road projectNorth-South ExpresswayThe section passing through Nghe An province is about 87.84km long and belongs to 2 sub-projects: Nghi Son - Dien Chau section andDien Chau - Bai Vot, passing through Hoang Mai town and 5 districts: Quynh Luu, Yen Thanh, Dien Chau, Nghi Loc and Hung Nguyen. The estimated cost of site clearance according to the overall approval is 3,498.9 billion VND (Nghi Son - Dien Chau 1,787.55 billion VND; Dien Chau - Bai Vot 1,711.35 billion VND).

Currently, the capital allocated for the project is 2,503.7 billion VND, of which the capital allocated in 2021 is 555.249 billion VND (Nghi Son - Dien Chau: 273.15 billion VND; Dien Chau - Bai Vot: 282.099 billion VND).

Currently, the cleared length is about 83.79/87.84km, reaching 95.39% (Nghi Son - Dien Chau section: 41.38/43.47km, reaching 95.19%; Dien Chau - Bai Vot section: 42.41/44.37km, reaching 95.58%). Hung Nguyen alone has 1.22km left, accounting for 30% of the remaining total volume.