Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a plan to implement compensation, support and resettlement for Component Project 1 of the National Highway 13 upgrade and expansion project (from Binh Trieu bridge to Vinh Binh bridge boundary).
The plan includes 20 steps, requiring the completion of all site clearance work before July 31, 2026.
According to Hiep Binh Ward People's Committee, the project needs to recover land from 1,041 households and organizations, with a total area of about 39.54 ha; of which the area to be recovered for project implementation is 17.53 ha.
As of May 6, functional agencies have paid compensation to 1,023 cases with a total amount of more than 6,193 billion VND. However, only 50 cases handed over land, equivalent to about 0.807 hectares.
In addition, 165 more cases have agreed to hand over land and are expected to be completed before the end of May 2026.
One of the major obstacles currently is that the housing and land fund for resettlement has not fully met the needs of affected people. The city has only arranged 143 land plots and 31 apartments in resettlement areas such as the 50 ha residential area of Cat Lai ward, the Trade Union housing area of Open University, C8 apartment building, Linh Trung apartment building...
Meanwhile, through reviewing legal documents, there are about 250 cases that need resettlement with land plots and 92 cases that need apartment arrangements. Thus, the city is currently short of 107 land plots and 61 resettlement apartments.
Besides the difficulties in the resettlement fund, many households also believe that the compensation price for agricultural land is still low compared to the market price and there is a difference compared to the Binh Duong area before. Some cases of using agricultural land for many years for living and business proposed to be supported at a level equal to 50% of the residential land price or equivalent to the price of commercial and service land.
Hiep Binh Ward People's Committee said that it has established 10 mobilization groups including ward leaders, Fatherland Front, mass organizations and neighborhoods to directly go to each household to propagate, mobilize, and create consensus in the project implementation process.
For cases that have not been agreed upon with the compensation plan, especially related to land classification, the locality said that it has reported to the working delegation of Ho Chi Minh City and will continue to explain and mobilize people to agree to hand over the land.
The project to upgrade and expand National Highway 13 is about 6 km long (from Binh Trieu bridge to Vinh Binh bridge), with a total investment of nearly 21,000 billion VND in BOT form (build - operate - transfer).
The road will be expanded to 60 m, and an elevated road will be built in the middle of the route, about 3.55 km long with 4 lanes, allowing vehicles to travel at a maximum speed of 80 km/h.
Below is a parallel road system with 8 - 10 lanes wide, maximum speed of 60 km/h, raising the total scale of the entire route to about 12 - 14 lanes.
The entire project arranges 10 intersections. In which, in the Binh Loi and Binh Phuoc elevated bridge areas, a two-way underpass will be built to reduce traffic congestion. In addition, Duc Nho bridge and Ong Dau bridge will also be expanded to synchronize infrastructure.
According to the plan, the project will start construction in January 2027 and be completed in December 2028.
