Vu Hong Thanh, head of the National Assembly’s Committee for Economic Affairs, speaks at the working session. (Photo: VNA)Dong Nai (VNA) – Vu Hong Thanh, head of the NationalAssembly’s Committee for Economic Affairs, on July 15 urged the southernprovince of Dong Nai to maintain resources for land retrieval, compensation andresettlement work in service of the Long Thanh airport project.
At a working session with representatives of Dong Nai province onthe work, Thanh asked local leaders to promptly address obstacles to siteclearance, while taking into consideration aspirations of residents in theproject area.
The Ministry of Transport should push ahead with preparations tobegin the construction right after the land clearance work is completed, herequested.
According to the provincial People’s Committee, the project needsto take back more than 5,000 ha of land currently used by 18 organisations andnearly 5,300 households, and this and compensation and resettlement work costsnearly 23 trillion VND (nearly 992 million USD).
More than 1,800 ha for the first phase of the project are expectedto be handed over to the investor in the last quarter of this year.
Meanwhile, half of the workload of the Loc An-Binh Sonresettlement area has been completed.
Once fully operational, Long Thanh airport will reduce the load onTan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City as it is expected to handle 100million passengers and 5 million tonnes of freight each year.
Covering a total area of more than 5,580 hectares, the airport will be locatedin six communes in Long Thanh district in Dong Nai province.
Its total investment is 336.63 trillion VND, with construction divided intothree phases./.
VNA
