The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Agriculture and Environment has just submitted a report to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee on regulations on order and procedures for organization before investigating, surveying, recording the current status, measuring, counting, statistics, classifying the area of land recovered and assets attached to land; determining the origin of land and assets to serve the implementation of a number of key projects in the city.
According to current regulations, investigation, survey, measurement, and inventory are only allowed after the commune-level People's Committee issues a notice of land acquisition.
The maximum time from the issuance of the notice to the land recovery decision is 60 days for agricultural land and 120 days for non-agricultural land.
This process causes compensation, support, resettlement and site handover for large projects to be often prolonged, directly affecting the progress of construction investment.
From now to 2030, Ho Chi Minh City prioritizes the deployment of 6 metro lines, including: Metro line No. 2 (Ben Thanh - Tham Luong); Metro line No. 2 (Ben Thanh - Thu Thiem); Thu Thiem - Long Thanh line; Binh Duong - Suoi Tien New City Metro; phase 1 metro line No. 6 (Tan Son Nhat - Phu Huu); Ben Thanh - Can Gio metro line.
Along with that are a series of key transport projects and important national projects such as the North-South high-speed railway; large bridges including Phu My 2 bridge, Can Gio bridge, Cat Lai bridge, Thu Thiem 4 bridge...
Therefore, the volume of land to be recovered, compensated, and resettled in the coming time is very large, requiring a flexible mechanism, suitable to the new development context of the city.
Therefore, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee will propose to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council to issue a resolution allowing the organization to implement some preparatory steps right from the stage where the investment project has not been approved, in order to shorten the implementation time and accelerate compensation, support, and resettlement work when the project is officially approved.
This is under the authority of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council according to Resolution No. 260/2025/QH15 on amending and supplementing a number of articles of Resolution 98/2023/QH15.
According to the proposal, after the list of projects is approved by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council, within 15 days, the investor must hand over the project boundary on the ground to the People's Committees of wards, communes, special zones and units performing compensation and resettlement tasks.
In the next 10 days, the People's Committees of wards, communes, and special zones will issue and send notices to organize investigation, survey, measurement, and inventory to each organization, household, and individual whose land is recovered. In case of no contact, the notice will be publicly posted, posted on the electronic information portal and broadcast on the local loudspeaker system.
Within 60 days from the date of issuance of the notice, the commune-level People's Committee will take the lead in fully determining the origin, legal status of land use and assets attached to land, as a basis for compensation, support, and resettlement after the project is approved for investment decision by competent authorities.
For cases where the project boundary changes after the investment decision is approved, the People's Committees of wards, communes, and special zones will coordinate with the investor and relevant units to review, adjust, and supplement the results of investigation, measurement, and inventory to be consistent with the official project boundary.
The time to perform these tasks is no more than 30 days, ensuring sufficient legal basis to approve compensation, support, resettlement plans and issue land recovery decisions according to regulations.
