HCMC breaks land acquisition plan for expressway construction, 2,193 households have not been compensated

According to the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City, component project 3 - compensation, support, and resettlement of the Ho Chi Minh City - Moc Bai expressway section through Ho Chi Minh City is about 24.7 km long, passing through 5 communes: Phu Hoa Dong, Nhuan Duc, Thai My, Tan An Hoi and Cu Chi, with a total land area to be recovered of 220 hectares.

The total number of affected cases is 2,193 households with compensation, support and resettlement costs of about VND 4,333 billion.

Of which, Phu Hoa Dong commune has the largest number of affected households with 1,159 cases, followed by Nhuan Duc commune (669), Thai My commune (256), Cu Chi town (77) and Tan An Hoi commune (32).

According to the plan of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, the project will approve the compensation, support, resettlement plan and issue a decision to reclaim land, and make payments from April 2025.

The handover of the site will be implemented from April 2025 and is expected to be completed in December 2025.

However, according to the latest report from the Department of Agriculture and Environment, this plan has been "disrupted". By the end of June 2025, specific land prices as well as compensation plans have not been approved.

The People's Committee of Cu Chi district (old) has just confirmed the origin of land use in 156/2,193 cases (only about 7%).

Faced with this situation, the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City proposed that the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City direct the Chairmen of the People's Committees of 5 communes to urgently establish a Compensation, Support and Resettlement Council for each locality to promote progress.

The Department proposes the deadline for completing the verification of the origin and legality of real estate as follows: Thai My, Tan An Hoi, Cu Chi communes to complete before August 30.7; Nhuan Duc commune before August 10.8; Phu Hoa Dong commune before August 15.

To have a basis for making compensation plans, the Department also recommends that communes establish specific Land Valuation Councils and announce unit prices applicable in each locality. The Department of Agriculture and Environment proposes to be given the right to balance land prices in these areas to ensure fairness and unity.

The draft compensation plan needs to be publicly posted at the headquarters of the People's Committee at the commune level and community activity locations from August 1 to September 1.

The approval of the compensation and resettlement plan for the Ho Chi Minh City - Moc Bai Expressway project must be completed before September 5.

Compensation work is divided into 2 phases:

Phase 1: Compensation, support, and resettlement for cases with pure agricultural land and cases with residential land but agreeing to reclaim land in advance. The compensation payment period ends before September 30, 2025.

Phase 2: Applicable to the remaining cases with residential land, payment ends before February 28, 2026.

The project needs about 458 resettlement plots, of which 267 cases affected by residential land need to be arranged for resettlement plots, the rest are households building houses on agricultural land (191 cases).

Therefore, the Department of Agriculture and Environment proposed that the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee assign the Department of Construction to direct the Cu Chi area Investment and Construction Project Management Board to coordinate with the Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Construction Investment Project Management Board to speed up the implementation of resettlement areas to promptly arrange accommodation for affected people and hand over the site to the construction unit.