Dong Nai province is drawing up a plan to provide vocational training for residents affected by the Long Thanh international airport project so that they can be employed at the airport.
Dong Nai province is drawing up a plan to provide vocational training for residents affected by the Long Thanh international airport project so that they can be employed at the airport.
Dong Nai is now working on compensation, resettlement and vocational training plans for affected households, which are designed to help them settle down and land a job at the multi-billion-dollar project, heard a press conference on the province’s socioeconomic performance last week.
The province has reviewed nearly 5,000 households in the 5,000-hectare area where the airport will go up, and worked with local vocational schools to design suitable vocational training courses for them.
The provincial government is working on two resettlement areas near industrial parks like Long Duc, Amata and Nhon Trach.
In the short term, affected people can get immediate support to attend training courses so that they can find jobs at the local industrial parks. In the long run, they will be trained to work for the airport, Tran Van Vinh, vice chairman of Dong Nai Province, said at the press conference.
Vinh said as the Long Thanh airport is a project of national importance, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the province are coordinating to build a compensation plan for submission to the Prime Minister for approval.
Around 5,000 hectares in Long Thanh District will be cleared to make room for the project.
Last year, the province sought approval from the Government to implement site clearance and resettlement plans for the airport as soon as possible so that the project can get off the ground in 2019 as scheduled.
On June 25 last year, the National Assembly gave the nod to the Long Thanh airport project, which is envisaged becoming a major aviation hub not only in Vietnam but also in the region.
Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), the investor of the project, reckoned that it would take 15 months to select a consultant and complete the feasibility study from the time the project won approval from the legislature.
The corporation expected the feasibility study to be completed in 2018 and the legislature will have to approve the study before work on the project commences in 2019.
The airport is designed to handle 100 million passengers and five million tons of cargo a year when it is fully completed in 2050. It would require a total of around VND336.6 trillion (over US$16 billion), with VND114.45 trillion (US$5.45 billion) going to phase one.
ACV plans to put into use one runway and one terminal able to handle 25 million passengers and 1.2 million tons of cargo a year in phase one in 2023.
(Source:SGT)
