Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a plan to implement compensation, support, and resettlement for the area of 22,012m2 (more than 2.2 ha) belonging to the Luong Dinh Cua road boundary to implement the project to upgrade and expand this road.
According to the 20-step plan, the city aims to complete compensation, support, resettlement, land recovery and hand over the entire site for construction before November 30, 2020.
The area of more than 2.2ha located along Luong Dinh Cua street, the section from Nguyen Hoang street to An Phu intersection, affects 64 households and organizations.
Luong Dinh Cua Street is one of the important traffic axes of the East of Ho Chi Minh City, connecting the central area with the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay expressway.
The project to upgrade and expand the road was started in 2015 with a cross-section scale of 30m, a length of about 2.5km from Tran Nao street to An Phu intersection, with a total investment of 826 billion VND.
However, after nearly 10 years of construction and many schedule adjustments, the project has not been completed due to site clearance issues. Notably, the section more than 500m long from Nguyen Hoang street to An Phu intersection has become a serious traffic "bottleneck" when it has not been expanded, and congestion often occurs.
Not only slowing down the progress of Luong Dinh Cua road, the unhanded over land is also within the scope of the An Phu intersection project - a key three-story project, with a total investment of more than 3,400 billion VND.
Currently, the N1.2 overpass branch (direction from Luong Dinh Cua street to the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay expressway) has to be temporarily suspended due to lack of land on Luong Dinh Cua street.
The current obstacle stems from the determination of compensation responsibility. In 2000, the city approved the An Phu Urban Area infrastructure project with an area of more than 87ha; of which more than 85ha was allocated to Thu Thiem Real Estate Joint Stock Company, and the remaining about 2.2ha was managed by the State to expand the road.
In the process of implementation, functional agencies believe that the compensation responsibility belongs to the urban area investor because the land acquisition decision applies to the entire area.
However, the business said that the 2.2ha land is road boundary land, not within the project scope, so it has no obligation to pay. At the same time, implementation is difficult when component projects have not allocated enough funds and resettlement funds.
According to the new plan, Ho Chi Minh City will adjust the project boundary, putting more than 2.2ha of land into the Luong Dinh Cua road expansion project to implement compensation, support and resettlement. The city will also advance about 1,800 billion VND to pay people in order to soon have land for construction.
When land is available, units can construct the N1.2 overpass branch connecting to the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay expressway, and at the same time complete the Luong Dinh Cua route. Legal procedures will be handled in parallel.
