Site clearance progress of Ho Chi Minh City - Moc Bai expressway project is nearly 3 months behind schedule.

On October 1, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc and leaders of the City and departments, branches and sectors inspected the progress of the Ring Road 3 project and the Ho Chi Minh City - Moc Bai expressway.

Reporting on the progress of the Ho Chi Minh City - Moc Bai Expressway Project, Mr. Tran Quang Lam, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Construction, said that compensation and site clearance work is being carried out in parallel in both Ho Chi Minh City and Tay Ninh province.

Currently, Tay Ninh province has handed over more than 50% of the area, but is facing difficulties when the cost increases by 2,100 billion VND, so the locality has requested support from Ho Chi Minh City.

As for Ho Chi Minh City, according to the plan of the City People's Committee, the compensation, support, and resettlement plan will be approved and the land recovery decision will be issued, and payments will be made from April 2025. The handover of the site is expected to be completed in December 2025.

However, up to now, the progress in some communes of Cu Chi district (old) is still slow, some communes have to wait until October or November to approve compensation plans.

Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee inspects the site clearance of Ho Chi Minh City - Moc Bai Expressway - Photo: LM

According to reports from leaders of some communes through which the route passes, the progress is slow due to the lack of officials with expertise in planning and land. Therefore, the communes have requested the City People's Committee to support the dispatch of planning officials to the locality to speed up the progress.

Regarding the progress of the Project, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc frankly admitted that the Project was nearly 3 months behind schedule, due to changes in the apparatus and the lack of initiative and flexibility in handling by the locality, leading to slow progress in disbursing public investment.

The Chairman of the City People's Committee requested that communes urgently strengthen the steering committee for compensation and site clearance, complete the compensation plan in October and November, and strive to achieve 100% household consensus in December.

“Once there is a plan and budget, and people agree, we must work immediately with the Treasury to make payment, not prolonging it for 30-90 days according to rigid procedures,” Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc directed.

Regarding the communes' proposal to increase planning staff, the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee directed to immediately dispatch 5 specialized staff from the Department of Planning and Architecture to support the communes in carrying out site clearance work.

Previously, on September 25, the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City dispatched 18 officials to Nhuan Duc, Phu Hoa Dong and Thai My communes to support these communes in compensating and clearing the land for the Ho Chi Minh City - Moc Bai Expressway Project.

The Compensation, Support and Resettlement Project (Component Project 3) of the Ho Chi Minh City - Moc Bai Expressway section through Ho Chi Minh City has a total investment of VND 5,052 billion.

The project is 24.7 km long, passing through the old Cu Chi district. According to the approved plan, the project will clear the land at once according to the scale of 6 expressway lanes, including the residential service road, Ring Road 3 intersection, Provincial Road 8 intersection and overpasses across the expressway.

When implementing the Project, 2,177 households were affected with an area to be recovered of 2,200,970 m2.

According to the plan, the main package of Component Project 1 (expressway construction) will start construction in January 2026. Therefore, Ho Chi Minh City is currently speeding up the site clearance progress to hand over to the investor.

Source: https://baodautu.vn/tien-do-giai-phong-mat-bang-du-an-cao-toc-tphcm---moc-bai-cham-gan-3-thang-d399343.html