Can Tho City: Disbursement "faces difficulties" because many projects are stuck in site clearance

Low disbursement due to site clearance problems

Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee Truong Canh Tuyen worked with the Management Board of Investment Projects for Construction of Traffic and Agricultural Works of Can Tho City.

On October 22, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City Truong Canh Tuyen had a working session with the leaders of the Can Tho City Traffic and Agricultural Construction Investment Project Management Board (PMU) on the operation of this unit.

The leaders of the Project Management Board reported that in 2025, the unit will be the investor of 58 projects, of which 42 will be in the transport sector, 8 in the civil sector and 8 in the agricultural and irrigation sector. The total capital for the projects is more than 16,000 billion VND, of which the capital transferred from 2024 to 2025 is nearly 326 billion VND. The accumulated disbursement up to October 15 is more than 5,332 billion VND, reaching more than 33% of the capital plan.

During the implementation of construction investment projects, the Project Management Board encountered the biggest difficulty and problem, which was the prolonged compensation, support and resettlement work. As a result, contractors could not carry out construction simultaneously along the entire route, directly affecting the disbursement work; some projects requested to be extended to 2026.

Leaders of the Management Board of Investment Projects for Construction of Traffic and Agricultural Works of Can Tho City reported on the organization of the unit and the projects being implemented.

In addition, investors and contractors also face difficulties when there is a shortage of sand and stone materials. The reason is that in Can Tho City and neighboring provinces, many key national projects are being implemented at the same time, so sand and stone are prioritized for highways; when materials are scarce, the long transportation distance increases the price of materials, increasing costs, affecting project progress and disbursement. Some projects must request an extension to 2026.

Specifically, such as the Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang Expressway Construction Investment Project, Phase 1, component projects 2, 3, 4 through Can Tho City, with a total capital of more than 31,200 billion VND; The Project Management Board is still most concerned about sand and stone materials. In reality, the project has a very large demand for sand and stone, but the supply is not enough , many mines have not been allocated or exploited slowly. Meanwhile, Can Tho does not have a material mine, it must be transported from other provinces, increasing costs and prolonging progress. Therefore, ensuring enough material sources to complete the project on schedule in July 2026 is very difficult.

Or the project to upgrade and expand National Highway 91 (section Km0-Km7), the project has started construction, with an investment capital of more than 7,200 billion VND. However, up to now, there are still problems with compensation, support and resettlement for 867 newly affected cases and organizations, of which 565 cases have not yet issued land recovery decisions, 79 cases have not yet had meetings to consider legality and 145 cases have not been approved by the compensation, support and resettlement council.

Establish a working group to remove obstacles in site clearance

Director of the Management Board of Investment Projects for Construction of Traffic and Agricultural Works of Can Tho City Le Minh Cuong spoke at the meeting

The leader of the Project Management Board said that many projects that the unit is implementing are currently stuck in site clearance. Therefore, the leader of the Project Management Board recommended that the People's Committee of Can Tho City direct the Department of Agriculture and Environment to soon issue instructions for communes and wards to remove legal difficulties in determining land prices, land origins, resettlement land prices, other supports, etc.

At the same time, the City Land Fund Development Center coordinated with communes and wards to speed up compensation payment progress, mobilize people to hand over the site by the end of October 2025 for the contractor to carry out construction, contributing to ensuring disbursement work meets the set plan.

While waiting for the authorities to resolve the difficulties in site clearance, the Project Management Board continues to urge and remind contractors to ensure construction progress; resolutely cut the volume and terminate contracts for contractors who do not ensure the volume as committed. At the same time, proactively advise the City People's Committee to issue official dispatches to provinces and units managing sand and stone mines, to prioritize projects so that contractors can construct and complete the projects as directed by the Prime Minister.

The leaders of the Land Clearance Monitoring and Management Department reported on difficulties in land clearance work at projects.

In his concluding remarks, Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City Truong Canh Tuyen praised the achievements of the Project Management Board and shared the difficulties due to objective conditions in the work of merging provinces and cities and perfecting the apparatus of units. However, with the capital allocated in 2025 of more than 16,000 billion VND, but up to now, the disbursement of more than 5,300 billion VND is still low.

Therefore, in the last months of the year, in order to ensure the speed of disbursement, the Project Management Board needs to increase the initiative in coordinating with departments, communes and wards to resolve difficulties and obstacles in site clearance; inspect and monitor the construction progress of contractors, resolutely cut the volume and contract if the contractor violates the construction progress. On the other hand, every week and every month, the Board of Directors builds a project progress plan to monitor and report to the City People's Committee to promptly remove difficulties and obstacles.

Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee Truong Canh Tuyen noted that although the Project Management Board urgently speeds up capital disbursement, the unit must strengthen supervision and ensure construction quality.

The Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City agreed to establish a working group (with the Department of Agriculture and Environment as the main force) to go to communes and wards to support localities in carrying out site clearance work, especially those with large volumes of site clearance to serve key projects.

Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee Truong Canh Tuyen also requested the Project Management Board to continue promoting the spirit of solidarity, forming a unified bloc to resolutely implement tasks, complete work and projects as expected by the Prime Minister, the National Assembly and the People.

Although implementing urgently and ensuring the disbursement plan of public investment capital, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City noted that the Project Management Board must strengthen supervision, ensure construction quality, labor safety and not affect the lives of people in the project area.

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