Completing resettlement areas and handing over the remaining area of the North-South Expressway Project

That is the direction of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Official Dispatch No. 54/CD-TTg dated May 28, 2024 on continuing to promote the highest sense of responsibility, mobilizing the entire political system to speed up the progress and complete site clearance of important national and key projects of the transport sector on schedule.

Complete resettlement areas and hand over the remaining area of the North-South Eastern Expressway Project before June 30, 2024

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Accordingly, in recent times, the Ministry of Transport and many localities from North to South assigned as the managing agencies have made efforts to focus on implementing investment preparation work and have completed procedures to carry out construction of expressway projects and are carrying out work to start construction of a number of projects in 2024.

In project implementation, site clearance is a complex and difficult task because it directly affects the rights and livelihoods of the people; the implementation process is often lengthy and greatly affects the progress of projects.

Since the beginning of the term, localities have changed their thinking and working methods, mobilizing the entire political system to carry out site clearance work; increasing direct dialogue with people, carrying out mass mobilization work to grasp legitimate aspirations, flexibly applying legal regulations to resolve complaints and recommendations; selecting locations and building resettlement areas with better living conditions and at least equal to the old place of residence; taking care of people's lives, creating stable livelihoods for people after giving up land, houses, and fields to build projects.

Therefore, after 1 year since the investment policy of important national projects was approved and after 6 months since receiving full site clearance deposits, localities have recovered and handed over to project investors at least 70% of the area, meeting all conditions for construction commencement. Up to now, many localities have basically completed site clearance work, which is a great achievement compared to the implementation of projects in the previous stage.

However, according to the report of the Ministry of Transport, some localities are still slow in implementation, affecting the progress of projects.

To complete key projects on schedule, the Prime Minister proposed:

The Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Central Committee for Mass Mobilization, and socio-political organizations directed their affiliated organizations at all levels to actively participate and closely coordinate with Party committees and authorities at all levels to mobilize people in areas where the project passes through to be ready to hand over the site and carry out resettlement.

The Provincial Party Secretaries and Chairmen of the People's Committees of the provinces and cities where the project passes through focus on leading and directing agencies and units to closely follow the progress milestones in accordance with the direction of the Prime Minister, speed up the progress of site clearance to complete the handover of the site for the North-South Eastern Expressway project in the 2021-2025 period, 2 beltway projects and 3 East-West expressway projects in the second quarter of 2024.

Strengthen direct work with people, carry out mass mobilization work to grasp their aspirations, flexibly and effectively apply legal regulations to resolve people's legitimate complaints and recommendations; coordinate with investors to prioritize site clearance at locations that are critical to construction progress such as areas for weak soil treatment, large bridges and tunnels, and construction access roads.

The Prime Minister directed specific work for ministries, sectors, provinces and cities with projects. In particular, Quang Tri province as well as a number of localities need to focus on directing the acceleration of the completion of resettlement areas and handing over the remaining areas of the North-South Expressway Project in the East phase 2021-2025 before June 30, 2024.

The Prime Minister requested agencies in the political system, ministers, heads of agencies, secretaries, chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities and relevant units to urgently carry out the tasks assigned in this dispatch.

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