The Office of the City People's Committee has just announced the conclusion of Chairman of the City People's Committee Phan Van Mai at the meeting of the Working Group of the project to solve tidal flooding in the Ho Chi Minh City area taking into account climate change factors (phase 1).

Accordingly, the Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City assigned the Department of Planning and Investment to preside over and coordinate with relevant units to urgently provide relevant records, documents, and legal documents, and at the same time participate in giving comments on the draft Resolution of the Government on removing obstacles in implementing the nearly 10,000 billion VND flood prevention project.

The Department was also assigned to propose the establishment of a grassroots appraisal council and plan to select an appraisal consulting unit; advise and propose to the City People's Committee before February 10.

In addition, preside over negotiations and sign the BT Contract Appendix, propose to the City People's Committee in accordance with regulations; Review and propose to the budget management unit to pay for the project, strive to complete the project and put it into use before December 31, 2025.

The City Chairman also assigned the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to preside over and coordinate with the Land Fund Development Center and investors to establish a detailed 1/500 plan for the land plots expected to be paid to investors, and at the same time, hire a unit to appraise the land plots and complete the appraisal work before May 31.

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Started in 2016, the 10,000 billion VND flood prevention project of Ho Chi Minh City is still not completed. Photo: HG.

The 10,000 billion VND flood prevention project is invested by Trung Nam Construction Investment Joint Stock Company, implemented by Trung Nam BT 1547 Company Limited. This is a group A project with the form of public-private partnership (PPP) investment. The type of contract is build-transfer (BT), payment is made by land fund and city budget.

Construction began in June 2016 and is expected to be completed after two years of construction, with the aim of controlling flooding caused by high tides and proactively responding to climate change for an area of ​​570 square kilometers with about 6.5 million people in the right bank of the Saigon River and the center of Ho Chi Minh City.

The project includes the construction of 6 large tide control sluices with widths ranging from 40-160m, 3 pumping stations and 7.8 km of dykes/embankments along the Saigon River from Vam Thuat to Kinh River in vulnerable sections...

Up to now, after 9 years of construction, the project has not yet reached the finish line, meaning it is 7 years behind schedule, even though it has reached 90% of the work volume.

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