Due to land acquisition issues, construction on National Highway 7 through Dien Chau is interrupted.
Tien Dong•DNUM_CFZAHZCACE 11:19
Although the deadline for handing over the site to the investor for construction has passed, dozens of households in Dien Chau district, where National Highway 7 passes through, have yet to hand over the site.
53 plots of land have not been handed over
The project to upgrade National Highway 7, section Km0 - Km36 and handle landslides caused by storms and floods in the Khe Thoi - Nam Can section, Nghe An province is a project in the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021 - 2025 approved by the Ministry of Transport in Decision No. 333/QD-BGTVT dated March 18, 2022. The project has a total investment of VND 1,300,270 billion, with a total length of 27.5km passing through Dien Chau, Yen Thanh and Do Luong districts.
The section passing through Dien Chau district is located from Km0+00 - Km9+180, with a total length of 9.18 km (including both sides of the route is 18.36 km), passing through Dien Chau town and the communes: Dien Thanh, Dien Phuc, Dien Cat and Minh Chau. In particular, Dien Chau town does not have to reclaim land because the scope of GPMB markers does not affect the land plots of households and individuals.
A household in Minh Chau commune (Dien Chau) dismantles a construction site to hand over to the construction unit. Photo: Tien Dong
According to report No. 278/BC-UBND dated July 18, 2024 of Dien Chau District People's Committee, the total number of land plots affected by the project passing through the entire district is 862 plots. Of which, residential land and garden land are 355 plots, agricultural land is 397 plots and other land is 110 plots..The total number of residential land plots recovered and required for resettlement is 9 plots, mainly in Dien Phuc commune.
Up to now, the entire Dien Chau district has handed over the discontinuous sections from Km0+00 - Km9+180 (left and right of the route) for about 16.7km/18.36km (reaching 90.9%). Of which, the entire section through agricultural land has handed over all 397 plots, and 110 plots of other land.
By July 18, 2024, the entire Dien Chau district had handed over 302 plots of garden and residential land, the remaining 53 plots had not been handed over. In the photo, the demolition of the project was carried out in Minh Chau commune. Photo: Tien Dong
The remaining 1.66 km of residential land section is still stuck with undelivered land (including both left and right sides of the route), with 53 plots of land yet to be handed over.
Specifically, in Dien Thanh commune, the number of plots that have not yet been handed over is 15/66 plots. Of these, 13 plots of land have been requested by households for compensation for areas outside the boundaries of the Land Use Right Certificates but there is no basis for settlement.
In Dien Phuc commune, there are 4/104 land plots that have not been handed over. Of which, there is 1 household (located at the foundation of the railway overpass), which does not have a Land Use Rights Certificate. Currently, the local government is reviewing the land origin, consolidating and completing the documents for implementation; there is 1 household that built a kiosk on the land of the traffic safety corridor and has not received compensation or property support but refuses to relocate; there are 2 households whose Land Use Rights Certificates state that the affected part is a garden (no residential land), so they are only compensated and supported with the value of agricultural land, so the households have not reached an agreement.
The construction of the railway overpass through Dien Phuc commune is facing difficulties due to land acquisition issues. Photo: Tien Dong
Also because of the land acquisition issue, one of the important items of this project, the railway overpass section passing through Dien Phuc commune, has not been completed yet. According to the design, this overpass has 2 lanes and 8 spans, however, up to now, some abutments on the western side of the railway have not been completed.
Minh Chau Commune still has 14/77 plots of land that have not been handed over. The reason is that households have requested compensation for land areas outside the Land Use Rights Certificate, and requested compensation for the land areas that were illegally transferred within the traffic safety corridor but have not been granted Land Use Rights Certificates.
Dien Cat commune has the highest number with 20/108 plots of land not yet handed over. Of these, 17 households have not yet agreed on the land area and 3 households have not yet agreed due to the request for compensation for land affected by the National Highway 7 project since 2011 and there is no basis for settlement.
A section of National Highway 7 through Dien Chau district that has not yet completed site clearance, seen from above. Photo: Thanh Cuong
Focus on propaganda and explanation
In investigating this issue, we learned that the site handover timeline has had to be adjusted many times. Recently, in the Conclusion Notice No. 454/TB-UBND dated June 18, 2024 of the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh, it was clearly stated that Dien Chau district must complete the handover of the remaining sections before June 28, 2024. Priority is given to handing over the site to Mr. Nguyen Van Duyen's household (at the location of the railway overpass pier foundation), because this is the project's critical path, and must be completed no later than November 2024, according to the schedule extended by the Ministry of Transport.
The Conclusion Notice also stated that Dien Chau district needs to organize and protect the construction of sections that have ensured the procedures and regulations on compensation and site clearance that households have obstructed and opposed in the sections through Dien Thanh, Dien Phuc and Minh Chau communes; store images of the current status of households that are still having problems, take extracts and measurements to compare records, and complete the work in June 2024.
The incomplete land acquisition has caused National Highway 7 passing through Dien Chau district to be "discontinued", affecting traffic flow. Photo: Tien Dong
However, up to this point, the handover of the land section through Dien Chau district still has 53 plots of land not completed as mentioned above.
Mr. Hoang Van Chau - Deputy Director of Project Management Board 4 - Investor of this project said: The delay in handing over the site has caused the project to be prolonged. This not only affects environmental sanitation and safety for vehicles passing through the unfinished sections, but it also risks causing the project to stop and reduce its scale, because this is a project in the public investment portfolio, if it is not completed by the prescribed time, it will be forced to stop.
A section through Dien Cat commune cannot be constructed due to land acquisition issues. Photo: Tien Dong
Previously, on May 14, 2024, the Vietnam Road Administration issued Official Dispatch No. 3154/CDBVN-CCDT to the People's Committee of Nghe An province and requested to direct Yen Thanh and Do Luong districts, especially Dien Chau district and the province's functional agencies to focus on handling procedures according to regulations, establish detailed timelines for completing procedures, and hand over the entire site to the project according to the time directed by the Secretary of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee in Notice No. 1290-TB/TU dated April 10, 2024 (ie Dien Chau district must relocate technical works and hand over the site of the remaining sections before May 30, 2024 - PV).
A section of National Highway 7 through Dien Chau cannot be constructed due to land acquisition issues. Photo: Thanh Cuong
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In case after May 30, 2024, the People's Committees of the districts do not hand over the site for the project, the Vietnam Road Administration will have to report to the Ministry of Transport and not construct the locations where the site is stuck, for example, the section Km3+810 - Km4+300 in Dien Cat commune, Dien Chau district...
Excerpt from Official Dispatch 3154/CDBVN-CCĐT dated May 14, 2024 of the Vietnam Road Administration sent to the People's Committee of Nghe An province
Not to mention, on June 13, 2024, the Ministry of Transport also sent Official Dispatch No. 18 to the People's Committee of Nghe An province requesting to accelerate the site clearance progress for this project. In order for the project to be completed on schedule, meet the objectives, and effectively promote investment capital, the Ministry of Transport requested the People's Committee of Nghe An province to pay more attention, resolutely direct the districts where the project passes through and the functional agencies of the province to focus on removing difficulties, obstacles, and thoroughly handling the existing problems in the site in June 2024, creating conditions for the contractor to have a clean site to carry out construction.
Official dispatch of Vietnam Road Administration sent to Nghe An Provincial People's Committee. Photo: Tien Dong
Mr. Le Manh Hien - Vice Chairman of Dien Chau District People's Committee said: In the past time, the District Compensation and Site Clearance Council has focused on preparing compensation and support records for land and assets on land in accordance with the provisions of law. At the same time, it regularly coordinates with the People's Committees of communes to directly work, discuss, resolve recommendations and propagate and mobilize people to hand over the site as soon as possible. However, some households still deliberately do not comply with and do not agree with the draft compensation plan.
According to Mr. Hien, the district is currently focusing on directing the Council and People's Committees of communes to urgently appraise and approve plans for all households that are publicly disclosing plans and continue to mobilize the remaining households (53 plots) to promptly hand over the land.
Regarding the handover of the site and the implementation of commitments to the province and investors, Mr. Le Manh Hien - Vice Chairman of Dien Chau District People's Committee also said that the district is currently making every effort to propagate and mobilize people to comply with the policy for the common development. It is expected that the completion and handover of the entire site along the route will be before August 10, 2024.
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