An Giang proposes to implement 17 natural disaster prevention projects with a total capital of 5.404 billion VND
Currently, the situation of natural disasters and landslides in An Giang is becoming more complicated and increasingly serious. To ensure the safety of life and property of people in the area, large funds are needed to overcome landslides.
The People's Committee of An Giang province has just issued document No. 402/BC-UBND reporting on the implementation of projects to treat riverbank and coastal erosion in the Mekong Delta using the Central budget reserve in 2023, sent to the Inter-sectoral Working Group - Ministry of Planning and Investment.
In the document mentioned above, the People's Committee of An Giang province said that currently the situation of natural disasters and landslides in An Giang province is becoming more complicated and increasingly serious. To ensure the safety of life and property of people in the area, large funds are needed to overcome landslides. In the long term, An Giang province needs to continue implementing 17 projects to serve natural disaster prevention with a total cost of 5.404 billion VND, including 14 embankment projects to overcome landslides, with a total cost of 4.463 billion VND and 3 Residential cluster and line project to prevent natural disasters, with a total budget of 941 billion VND.
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| Erosion on the northern bank of Rach Gia - Long Xuyen canal (An Giang province). Photo: Ngo Chuan |
Specifically: Embankment to overcome landslides on Tien River bank, section adjacent to Tan Chau embankment, Long Chau ward, Tan Chau town, estimated cost of 272 billion VND; Embankment to handle landslides on the banks of Rach Gia - Long Xuyen canal (banks of Nguyen Thanh Son and Ngo Quyen), City. Long Xuyen estimated budget is 190 billion VND; Handling and overcoming landslides on Hau river banks to protect An Chau town, Chau Thanh district, estimated cost of 150 billion VND; Anti-erosion embankment on Tien River bank to protect residents in Cho Moi town, Cho Moi district, estimated cost of 360 billion VND; Construction of embankments to protect residential areas in the city. Chau Doc, Tan Chau town and An Phu district, estimated budget of 1.890 billion VND; Project to prevent landslides on Xep Nang Gu canal bank, respond to climate change, protect National Highway 91, residential areas of Binh My and Binh Thuy communes, Chau Phu district, estimated cost of 657 billion VND...
An Giang proposed the Inter-sectoral Working Group to consider and propose the Ministry of Planning and Investment to support the central budget for the province to make immediate investments in 2 urgent and especially dangerous projects with a total capital of 347 billions dong. They are: Embankment to overcome landslides on Tien River bank, section adjacent to Tan Chau embankment, Long Chau ward, Tan Chau town, with a route length of 1.426 m, total investment of 272 billion VND; Embankment project for emergency treatment of landslides on the west bank of Hau River at group 44, Binh Duc 4 cluster, Binh Duc ward, city. Long Xuyen, An Giang province (from the beginning of the existing embankment towards Can Xay bridge), has an embankment length of 500 m, total investment of 75 billion VND.
