Talking to PV VietNamNet, Mr. Nguyen Van Nghia, Director of the Management Board of Construction Investment Projects of Dak Nong Province (investor of the Dak N'ting reservoir project) said that after more than 6 months of emergency repairs, Dak N'ting water reservoir, but the capital of more than 3 billion VND has not yet been disbursed, causing the unit to "hang" with the contractor.
According to Mr. Nghia, the reason the capital source is "suspended" is because the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) avoided responsibility and refused to advise the Provincial People's Committee to issue an "emergency construction order" before starting repairs. . This unit also does not advise on taking out capital but pushes all responsibility to the investor.
“The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development believes that in order to disburse funds, the cause of landslides and land cracks must be clarified. However, this is an off-site incident. When the incident happened, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development also came to check and asked for capital to be quickly used. If there was a shortage, the Central Government would supplement it, but the Department did not advise," Mr. Nghia said.
However, Mr. Pham Tuan Anh, Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Dak Nong province, said that this advice is not provided by the Department alone but by many other agencies. This is a project under construction and has not yet been handed over, so the responsibility completely belongs to the investor.
According to Mr. Pham Tuan Anh, if you want to take out this capital source, you must have results to verify whether the cause of landslides is objective or subjective. And the investor said that this incident was outside the construction, so how could the dam body collapse?
"We are following the law, anyone who says we are avoiding responsibility is not right," said Mr. Pham Tuan Anh.
Regarding this content, talking to PV VietNamNet, Mr. Le Van Chien, Permanent Vice Chairman of Dak Nong Provincial People's Committee, affirmed that this must clearly determine whether the cause of the error is due to the contractor or due to natural disasters.
"If it's due to a natural disaster, only the funds can be disbursed, but if the error is caused by the contractor, the contractor will have to spend their own money to repair it," Mr. Chien affirmed.
It is known that currently the independent inspection team is still conducting a re-assessment of the cause of the landslide incident at the Dak N'ting reservoir project and has not yet had results.
Previously, as VietNamNet reported, on August 2, 8, the authorities of Dak G'long district suddenly discovered that the hill on the left side of Dak N'ting bon water reservoir (Quang Son commune) appeared The soil cracks and landslides are about 2023m long and 500-3cm wide.
The investor, the Management Board of Construction Investment Projects of Dak Nong Province, urgently requested construction units to quickly bring workers into the construction site to drill the dam body and create trenches to withdraw underground water... in order to save the dam. .
The Dak N'Ting bon water reservoir project has a total investment of nearly 137 billion VND, including nearly 106 billion VND from the Target Program on Climate Change and Green Growth for the period 2016 - 2020 and nearly 32 billion VND from local budget sources.
With a total land use area of more than 80 hectares, the project will supply water to 680 hectares of crops, including 100 hectares of wet rice in Quang Son commune, Dak G'long district.
