The Dong Nai government will hand over more than 1,800 hectares of cleared land for the first phase of the Long Thanh international airport project on October 20, said provincial chairman Cao Tien Dung.
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| A rubber farm has been cleared to make room for the Long Thanh International Airport project in Dong Nai Province. The provincial government will hand over more than 1,800 hectares of cleared land for the first phase of the project on October 20. |
The Dong Nai government will hand over more than 1,800 hectares of cleared land for the first phase of the Long Thanh international airport project on October 20, said provincial chairman Cao Tien Dung.
At a meeting with the Southern Airports Authority and the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) on October 1, Dung said the land has been mainly cleared. Of the 1,200 hectares of rubber farms, 1,100 hectares have been cleared, the local media reported.
As for the remaining 630 hectares, the province has paid VND1.3 trillion in compensation for 611 households. The compensation for over 200 other households will be paid this month.
In the remaining months of the year, the province will inspect some 3,200 other hectares of land for the project and set the compensation price for the affected households. It expected to hand over the entire land for the project by the second quarter of next year.
At the meeting, a leader of the Southern Airports Authority said that after receiving the cleared land from the Dong Nai government, it would ask ACV to build a fence around the land to prevent encroachment or illegal construction.
On September 30, Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh checked the progress of the site clearance for the big-ticket project. He urged the Dong Nai government to accelerate the site clearance process to create favorable conditions for the early commencement of the project, contributing to the country’s socioeconomic development.
A plan to protect the cleared land must be worked out to prevent it from being encroached on, Deputy PM Binh added.
The Long Thanh International Airport is designed to handle up to 100 million passengers and five million tons of cargo per year once the three construction phases are completed by 2050.
The project costs an estimated VND336.6 trillion or US$14.5 billion, with nearly VND111.7 trillion assigned for the first phase.
(Source: Saigontimes)
