The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a Plan to develop a Project on "Rearranging, relocating, and expanding higher education institutions, colleges, vocational training institutions and medical facilities out of the inner city according to a suitable roadmap, ensuring synchronization with the overall plan of Ho Chi Minh City".
The scope of research is throughout Ho Chi Minh City. Initially, the "domestic area" is identified as the old urban area including 13 former districts: District 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, Go Vap, Binh Thanh, Phu Nhuan, Tan Binh and Tan Phu.
Research subjects include research institutes, universities, colleges, intermediate schools, vocational education institutions; hospitals and urban-level medical examination and treatment facilities.
The city will review the current status, development needs, and expansion capacity of each facility; assess the conformity with industry planning, provincial planning and general urban planning to develop criteria for grouping and listing facilities to maintain, expand or arrange, relocate.
The arrangement of new facilities must be in accordance with the overall plan and sectoral plan. Depending on each group of facilities, the City will study centralized or distributed plans, and at the same time develop appropriate mechanisms, policies and financial solutions to create motivation for implementation, ensuring harmony of interests.
The Department of Planning and Architecture is the agency in charge of preparing the Project, with the task of summarizing data and opinions of departments, branches and related units, advising the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to report to competent authorities.
The Department of Education and Training is responsible for providing data, reviewing the current status and development needs of educational institutions; assessing the possibility of expansion, upgrading or relocation; proposing criteria for classification and list of institutions that need to be kept unchanged, expanded or arranged and relocated. This Department also presides over proposing mechanisms, policies and implementation roadmaps in accordance with the education network plan.
The Department of Health performs similar tasks for the hospital system, medical examination and treatment facilities and medical facilities under its management; reviews development needs, expansion, upgrade or relocation possibilities, and at the same time proposes criteria, lists and roadmaps for arrangement in accordance with the health network planning.
The Department of Agriculture and Environment provides data on the current status of land use, participates in proposing plans to exploit the land fund after relocation. The Department of Construction assesses the responsiveness of technical infrastructure, public transport and urban environment.
Agencies in charge of culture, sports and tourism participate in reviewing facilities with conservation and relic elements to propose appropriate plans.
The Department of Science and Technology coordinates to standardize, digitize, integrate and share data to serve the Project, and at the same time develop information and propaganda plans.
The Department of Finance reviews the management and use of public assets such as houses and land; proposes a plan to handle the land fund after arrangement and research resources and financial mechanisms for implementation.
The Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies coordinates to integrate research results into the overall plan of the City. Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City provides data, contributes criteria and proposes roadmaps for educational institutions under its management.
