Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee: Localities must promptly complete site clearance for the North-South Expressway.

On the morning of April 22, under the chairmanship of comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the Steering Committee for site clearance for the North-South expressway construction project in the East section through Nghe An province held a meeting to assess the implementation situation.

Co-chairing was Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee. Also attending were leaders of a number of relevant departments, branches and localities.

Overview of the working session of the Steering Committee for site clearance for the North-South expressway construction project in the East section through Nghe An province. Photo: Thanh Duy

1.08 KM STILL STuck ON THE WHOLE ROUTE

The meeting took place in the current context, the site clearance work has not yet reached 100%, although according to the commitment, by March 30, the entire section through Nghe An must hand over the clean site.

Accordingly, the North-South expressway project in Nghe An province has a length of about 87.84 km, passing through Hoang Mai town and 5 districts: Quynh Luu, Yen Thanh, Dien Chau, Nghi Loc and Hung Nguyen with 2 component projects: Nghi Son - Dien Chau and Dien Chau - Bai Vot.

Comrade Nguyen Duc An - Deputy Director of Nghe An Department of Transport presented the implementation of compensation and site clearance work for the North - South expressway projects in the East, the section passing through Nghe An province. Photo: Thanh Duy

According to the review of Nghe An Department of Transport and statistics from localities and confirmation from localities to Project Management Board 6, there are currently about 1.08 km of uncleared land that has not been handed over, mainly located in the Dien Chau - Bai Vot section. However, through understanding, these sections do not affect the construction progress.

In fact, the Nghi Son - Dien Chau section is 360m long (of which Hoang Mai town is 170m long, Quynh Luu district is 90m long and Dien Chau district is 100m long).

The Dien Chau - Bai Vot section is still stuck at 715m (of which, the section through Dien Chau is stuck at 35m, the section through Hung Nguyen district is stuck at 680m).

Comrade Nguyen Huu An - Chairman of Hoang Mai Town People's Committee spoke at the meeting, committed to the progress of handing over the site at the remaining points in the town. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the meeting, after the report of the leaders of Nghe An Department of Transport, the leaders of 6 district-level localities where the project passed through presented the specific situation of site clearance in the area, especially the localities that have not completed the work, stated the causes, solutions and committed to the completion progress before the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee with specific timelines in May so that by the end of May 2022, Nghe An will complete the handover of clean land for the project.

Comrade Le Pham Hung - Chairman of Hung Nguyen District People's Committee spoke at the meeting and committed to the progress of handing over the site at the remaining points in the district. Photo: Thanh Duy

Speaking at the meeting, Standing Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh reviewed the implementation situation in the past time. Based on the shortcomings, limitations and difficulties pointed out, he suggested that in order to ensure the implementation progress as committed by the heads of the People's Committees of districts and towns at the meeting, localities must divide the work groups, assign tasks and assign the entire political system to truly participate in coordinating propaganda and mobilization.

The Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also requested the project management board to direct contractors to follow the available sites to mobilize machinery and construction equipment. During the construction process, pay attention to the dumping site, the environment, and agree to borrow public roads to determine the return work after the construction is completed.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also emphasized that propaganda work also needs to be promoted in two directions, which are the aspects that have not been achieved, and at the same time, highlighting the positive aspects such as typical households handing over land to replicate and create general consensus.

DELIVERY OF CLEAN SITE AS COMMITTED

Concluding the meeting of the Steering Committee, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province assessed that recently, localities have made efforts in coordinating with investors to focus on site clearance and handover for project implementation.

However, up to now, after having to extend the time for handing over the clean site to serve the project many times, the head of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee frankly admitted that the easy part was done very quickly and focused on drastically, but when it came to the difficult part, the localities still lacked focus, leading to some points that have not completed the site clearance work to hand over to the investor to implement the project.

Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung delivered a concluding speech, requesting relevant localities to properly implement their commitment to hand over clean land in the remaining sections as committed at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Expecting that the Steering Committee will no longer have to hold the next meeting on the issue of site clearance for the North-South Expressway project in the East, which means that the requirements are very strict for the leaders of the relevant localities to properly implement the commitment to hand over clean land at the remaining points, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province requested that the localities, especially the leaders, must take more drastic and responsible action.

Accordingly, the head of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized that localities, directly the Chairmen of the People's Committees of districts and towns, must learn from experience in leadership, direction, and implementation.

In particular, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee directly requested the Chairmen of the People's Committees of relevant districts and towns to focus on directing the thorough handling of identified problems on the route; the viewpoint is to focus on directing, implementing and fulfilling the commitments made at today's meeting.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested localities, especially those that are still relocating households to resettlement areas, to pay attention to and prioritize the work of ensuring conditions for people to receive and build houses smoothly, in the spirit of new housing being better than the old one, as thoroughly instructed by the Prime Minister, so that people can truly feel secure.

Delegates attending the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Regarding other tasks related to technical infrastructure works, the head of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee also noted that localities coordinate with investors to strictly control issues arising during the handover and implementation of the project, as well as issues of ensuring environmental sanitation, waste disposal sites, gathering contractor materials; and managing vehicles participating in the project.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung also requested the investor to closely coordinate with the locality to receive and hand over the project site, record specific minutes; at the same time, it is necessary to fully and accurately reflect the existing problems and difficulties for timely resolution.

The Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee also suggested that after receiving the handover of the site, investors need to focus on directing contractors to organize construction, first of all, leveling the site; as well as agreeing with the locality on related contents for the handover process, organization of implementation, especially managing the milestones that have handed over the site to the project, avoiding re-encroachment. On the other hand, it is necessary to commit to managing the means of transporting raw materials and materials for the project to ensure compliance with regulations, not to be oversized or overloaded.

Delegates attending the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Emphasizing information and communication work, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung requested media agencies to focus on propaganda to contribute to creating positive public opinion and consensus among people, especially people in the project implementation area.

In particular, it is necessary to focus on propaganda and mobilization so that people fully understand the meaning of the project, in order to support the work of site clearance and handover for project implementation; at the same time, clarify issues under the responsibility of localities, especially, raise difficulties and problems from the perspective of looking directly at the problem to focus on solving it.

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