From September 30 to October 3, SGGP Newspaper published a series of articles "Expectations for 4,500 new classrooms in Ho Chi Minh City" according to the Project to build 4,500 new classrooms in Ho Chi Minh City, aiming to celebrate major holidays of the country and Ho Chi Minh City in 2025. After the series of articles, many opinions said that there needs to be more support and drastic participation from departments, branches, and districts to successfully implement this major project of the city.
- Mr. NGUYEN VAN TRUONG, Director of the Management Board of Investment and Construction Projects of Civil and Industrial Works of Ho Chi Minh City:
25 high school projects will be renovated and newly built
In order to gradually improve and modernize the city's school network, in the medium-term public investment period of 2021-2025, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has assigned the Ho Chi Minh City Civil and Industrial Construction Investment Project Management Board (abbreviated as the DDCN Board) to carry out the task of researching and establishing projects to implement investment in upgrading, repairing, and building 8 new projects with a scale of 276 classrooms (excluding subject classrooms), with a total investment from the city budget of over 1,270 billion VND. When Ho Chi Minh City developed a project to build 4,500 new classrooms, aiming to celebrate major holidays of the country and Ho Chi Minh City in 2025, the board was assigned to carry out 17 more high school construction projects. According to the initial calculation plan, these 17 projects will have 418 newly built classrooms, with more than 1,107 billion VND invested from the city budget.
The DDCN Board strives to start construction of 8 projects approved by the HCMC People's Council for the medium-term investment period of 2021-2025 in the fourth quarter of 2024 and in 2025. For the remaining 17 school projects, during the process of implementing project investment preparation, the DDCN Board and the HCMC Department of Education and Training encountered a number of difficulties that affected the project implementation progress. These difficulties are divided into 2 groups.
Group 1 is a number of projects whose scale is determined to be suitable for actual use, but not suitable for the 1/2000 planning and the city's general planning. Recently, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has issued decisions to authorize the approval and adjustment work to localities, and at the same time issued a process to shorten the time for appraisal and approval of planning projects for public investment projects. This is the basis for 21 districts and Thu Duc City to take more drastic action in locally adjusting the 1/2000 planning project and the general planning, as a basis for approving the detailed planning at a scale of 1/500 (master plan). If relevant units do not take part in removing the above "bottlenecks", the committee alone cannot do it.
Group 2 is school projects affected by the average land area standard according to Circular 13/2020/TT-BGDDT dated May 26, 2020 of the Ministry of Education and Training. This Circular stipulates the standards for facilities of kindergartens, primary schools, secondary schools, high schools and multi-level general schools, in which the average land area standard/high school student is 10m2/student. This standard is not suitable for the characteristics of the city, leading to limited investment capacity. This problem needs to be resolved by the Ministry of Education and Training.
One of the projects that has lasted for the past 17 years is the Ernst Thälmann High School project. In terms of planning, this school is completely within the detailed urban construction planning project at a scale of 1/2000 (zoning planning) of the existing central area of Ho Chi Minh City (930ha) approved by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee in Decision No. 6708/QD-UBND dated December 29, 2012. Therefore, to implement the above project, the detailed planning 1/2000 must be adjusted. In addition, the land area of the school is 5,494m2, so it does not meet the standards prescribed for school facilities according to Circular 13/2020/TT-BGDDT. At the same time, due to the historical and cultural factors involved, the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City is studying the historical and cultural records of the Ernst Thälmann High School to get opinions from relevant units on the historical protection area and complete the records to submit to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee for consideration and decision on the historical classification of the school. Regarding this, the DDCN Board has coordinated with the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City to implement a conservation plan for Block A (historical building block).
In case this project is approved for investment procedures in 2024, the board will submit the project for approval, striving to implement design, bidding and construction in the fourth quarter of 2025.
- Mr. VU NGUYEN QUANG VINH, Vice Chairman of People's Committee of District 1, HCMC:
The "bird cage" classroom will be renovated and rebuilt.
Currently, in District 1, there are a number of schools that have been in use for more than 50 years and have degraded, such as Van Lang Secondary School, Nguyen Hue Primary School, etc. To successfully implement the city's 4,500 new classrooms project, District 1 has sent many documents to superiors proposing support to remove obstacles. Most recently, Vice Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Tran Thi Dieu Thuy signed Document No. 5655/TTr-UBND on the decision to adjust the investment policy of the project to build a new Nguyen Hue Primary School (District 1) to send to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council for consideration and decision to adjust the investment policy of the project to build a new school with 30 classrooms (11 classrooms and 19 functional rooms); adjust the project implementation time to 2024-2025.
Regarding the Van Lang Secondary School renovation project, District 1 has directed the District 1 Construction Investment Management Board to renovate and repair a number of items such as toilets, playgrounds, etc., and at the same time coordinate with relevant units to review planning problems, persuade 3 households with houses in the school grounds to agree with the district's plans to strive to renovate and repair this school in 2025.
- Mr. VO THANH CONG, Chairman of People's Committee of Le Minh Xuan Commune, Binh Chanh District, Ho Chi Minh City:
The first step to solving the shortage of schools
Le Minh Xuan commune currently has 41,541 people/13,185 households. Due to the organic population increase each year, although the commune has 3 kindergartens, 3 primary schools, 1 middle school, 1 high school and 1 gifted school, the situation of student overload still persists. Thanks to the strong direction of the leaders of Binh Chanh district, especially the strong participation of the Binh Chanh District Investment and Construction Management Board, the support of relevant units to remove difficulties in compensation and site clearance, and the organization of public and transparent bidding, the 2 new school projects in the commune have exceeded the schedule set by the district. In September, the Binh Chanh District Investment and Construction Management Board started construction of the new Le Minh Xuan 2 Primary School with 30 classrooms, fully equipped with functional rooms on an area of nearly 13,000m2 , with a total investment of over 135 billion VND, and the Le Minh Xuan 2 Secondary School project with 45 classrooms, fully equipped with functional rooms on an area of nearly 24,114m2 , with a total investment of nearly 158 billion VND.
These two projects will be put into use in the new school year 2025-2026. This is a joy and excitement for the people of Le Minh Xuan commune, thereby helping the locality no longer worry about school and classroom overload.
25 projects to upgrade, repair and build new schools implemented by the DDCN Board
- 8 projects in the medium-term public investment period 2021-2025
Tran Van Giau High School (renovating 45 rooms, total investment of nearly 80 billion VND); Vo Truong Toan High School (renovating 45 rooms, nearly 176 billion VND); Trung Phu High School (renovating 45 rooms, over 279 billion VND); Nguyen Thuong Hien High School (renovating 36 rooms, over 215 billion VND); Marie Curie High School (building 13 new rooms, over 42 billion VND); Hung Vuong High School (renovating 20 rooms, building 25 new classrooms, nearly 300 billion VND); Trung Vuong High School (renovating, building 45 new rooms, 95 billion VND); Center for General Technical Education and Vocational Guidance, branch of Le Thi Hong Gam High School (renovating 40 rooms, building 5 new classrooms, over 95 billion VND).
- 17 projects in the 4,500 new classrooms project
Construction, expansion and renovation of Nguyen Du High School; renovation and expansion of Nguyen Trai High School; construction of Nguyen Thai Binh High School; upgrading and renovation of Dien Hong High School; renovation and expansion of Ngo Quyen High School; construction, renovation of Ernst Thälmann High School; construction and upgrade of Truong Chinh High School; renovation and expansion of Le Thanh Ton High School; construction and upgrade of Binh Phu High School; renovation and upgrade (phase 1) of Suong Nguyet Anh High School; renovation and expansion of Nguyen Trung Truc High School.
QUANG HUY - AN KHANH recorded
Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/hon-2000-ty-dong-xay-truong-thpt-post763505.html
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