An additional 966 billion VND has been allocated for land compensation at Long Thanh Airport.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has just signed a decision allocating capital for the socio- economic recovery and development program; adjusting and supplementing the medium-term public investment plan using central government budget funds for the period 2021-2025; and allocating the budget estimates and investment plan using central government budget funds for 2023 to projects under the socio-economic recovery and development program.

Accordingly, the Government has allocated an additional VND 966.749 billion from the central government's general budget reserve of the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021-2025 to the People's Committee of Dong Nai province to implement the land acquisition, compensation, support, and resettlement project for Long Thanh International Airport.

Rendering of Long Thanh Airport. (Photo: ACV)

The Deputy Prime Minister also allocated 273 billion VND from the central government budget for the socio-economic recovery and development program to the Ninh Thuan Provincial People's Committee to implement infrastructure investment projects to stabilize the lives of people in Phuoc Dinh and Vinh Hai communes.

An additional 1.229 billion VND from the central government budget's contingency fund has been allocated to the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Transport for the medium-term public investment plan of the 2021-2025 period for the period 2021-2025.

In addition, the Government adjusted down more than VND 4,448 billion from the medium-term public investment plan for the 2021-2025 period for the component projects of the North-South Expressway (Eastern section) from 2017-2020. This amount will be used to adjust and supplement the medium-term public investment plan from the central budget for the 2021-2025 period for the Ho Chi Minh Highway construction project (Rach Soi-Ben Nhat, Go Quao-Vinh Thuan sections) and the Ho Chi Minh Highway construction project (Cho Chu-Trung Son Junction section).

The plan for medium-term public investment using central government budget funds for the 2021-2025 period in Hoa Binh province has been adjusted downwards by over 33 billion VND, in order to make a corresponding upward adjustment to the medium-term public investment plan using central government budget funds for the 2021-2025 period for the Office of the President and the Office of the National Assembly.

In addition, the Deputy Prime Minister also allocated over 3,307 billion VND from the central government budget for investment in 2023 to ministries, central agencies, and localities to implement projects that have completed investment procedures under the socio-economic recovery and development program.

Thanh Lam

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