Nghe An established a Steering Committee to pay 1,275 billion VND in compensation for land clearance on National Highway 1A.

The Provincial People's Committee has just issued Decision No. 575/QD-UBND to establish a Steering Committee for compensation payment for site clearance on National Highway 1A.

The Steering Committee is headed by Permanent Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh; Director of the Department of Transport Hoang Phu Hien as Permanent Deputy Head. Director of the Department of Finance Trinh Thanh Hai - Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment and Hoang Quoc Viet as Deputy Heads.

The Steering Committee members include representatives of the leaders of the departments: Planning and Investment, Construction, Justice, Provincial Inspectorate and Provincial Citizen Reception Committee.

The Steering Committee is responsible for directing the allocation of central budget estimates to localities for timely use in accordance with legal regulations; directing, urging and monitoring localities to disburse the allocated capital in accordance with regulations and being responsible for the accuracy of payment plans, ensuring no complaints arise, and reporting implementation results to the Provincial People's Committee.

The project to upgrade and expand National Highway 1A through Nghe An province has a total length of 73.8km, passing through Vinh city, Hoang Mai town, 3 districts: Quynh Luu, Dien Chau, Nghi Loc, invested by government bond capital and BOT form.

Since the project was implemented, with the attention of central ministries and branches, Nghe An province has resolutely directed the site clearance work, mobilized the entire political system to participate in propaganda, advocacy, and dialogue to resolve citizens' rights, handle difficulties and problems, and has received the support of the majority of the people.

Therefore, the project was completed on schedule as required and put into use at the end of 2014, bringing about socio-economic development efficiency, reducing traffic congestion, ensuring smooth traffic flow for the North-South traffic artery. In 2016, the Ministry of Transport completed the settlement of investment component projects using government bond capital; in 2019, the settlement of investment component projects under the BOT form was completed, including the settlement of site clearance sub-projects.

However, due to the fact that during the implementation process, some issues related to site clearance were not thoroughly resolved, after the Project was completed, many citizens filed complaints to authorities at all levels and People's Courts at all levels requesting compensation for the land area of ​​households located within the traffic corridor that was cleared during the implementation of the PMU1 Project in the period of 1994 - 1998, and had previously only been compensated for assets on the land, but had not been compensated for the land.

Based on the proposal of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee, in 2020, the project was granted an additional amount of VND 222,388 billion from government bond capital to prioritize cases of land use before 1982, eligible for compensation according to the provisions of law (concluded through the settlement of petitions and complaints).

For the remaining cases that have been resolved through petitions from 2021 to present, which have been concluded to be eligible for compensation according to legal regulations, based on the guidance of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on determining the area of ​​land to be compensated, the Provincial People's Committee has actively coordinated with the Ministry of Transport to complete the inspection and review of additional proposed data to pay households up to December 31, 2022, which is 1,282.52 billion VND (including the late payment according to the plan submitted by the Provincial People's Committee up to December 31, 2022).

In November 2023, based on the Government's Proposal, at the 6th Session, the 15th National Assembly agreed to add 1,275 billion VND in investment expenditure for Nghe An province from the increased central budget revenue in 2022 to resolve compensation for site clearance (including delayed payment) of the National Highway 1 expansion projects through Nghe An province under the central budget task arising after these projects are finalized (the difference of nearly 8 billion compared to the initial proposal is the operating cost of the organization in charge of site clearance compensation arranged by the province itself).

The National Assembly assigns the Government to be responsible for the content of the proposal, the accuracy of information, data, and legal basis when implementing it, and to only pay for obligations under the State's responsibility, ensuring that no complaints arise.

After being approved by the National Assembly, on December 27, 2023, Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai signed Decision 1702/QD-TTg assigning an additional VND 1,275 billion in the estimate and plan for investment of central budget capital in 2023 from the source of increased central budget revenue in 2022 to Nghe An province to resolve compensation for site clearance (including delayed payment) of the National Highway 1 expansion projects through Nghe An province under the central budget tasks arising after these projects have been finalized.

Immediately after receiving funding from the National Assembly and the Government, Nghe An province leaders resolutely directed relevant departments, branches and localities to focus on disbursing the allocated capital in accordance with regulations.