Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (front, first, right) looks at a map of the Loc An - Binh Son resettlement area in Long Thanh district (Photo: VNA)Dong Nai (VNA) - PrimeMinister Nguyen Xuan Phuc inspected site clearance at the Long ThanhInternational Airport project on July 21, where he urged Dong Nai province totake more drastic action to disburse public funding for the key nationalproject.
Local authorities reported that over 1.8trillion VND (77.5 million USD) sourced from Government bonds, or 10.1 percentof total public investment in the Long Thanh Airport project, has beendisbursed so far.
The southern province of Dong Nai has finished siteclearance on 364.21ha of land, on which two resettlement areas for residentsdisplaced by the project will be built. It still faces difficulties in siteclearance on the 5,000ha of land zoned for airport construction.
The province is set to speed up site clearanceon the 1,810-ha priority area and begin building facilities in Phase I of the projectthis year, while the remaining area will be ready in 2021, authorities said.
At a meeting with provincial officials afterexamining the site clearance and technical infrastructure being built at theLoc An - Binh Son resettlement area in Long Thanh district, PM Phuc highlightedthe important role of Dong Nai, which has an economy of over 17 billion USD andper capita income of some 5,300 USD.
He said site clearance for the airport projectwill be a driving force for local development this year, noting that thefunding of 23 trillion VND for site clearance is considerable, so drasticaction is needed to push ahead with the task.
Applauding Dong Nai’s resolve to not revise the targetsit set at the beginning of this year, he requested the province take strongeraction in public investment disbursement in 266 local projects, so that over 95percent of this year’s public funding will be allocated as planned.
In particular, it must manage to disburse 18trillion VND to prepare the ground for the airport’s construction - a hugechallenge the province must exert every effort to overcome, he said.
The Government leader also told ministries andsectors to assist Dong Nai in implementing the project so that construction canbegin this year, adding that site clearance must be completed by October./.
VNA
