The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam (DRVN) has called on various agencies to fulfill their responsibility for maintaining transport projects on national highways and expressways at the end of the year.
Subsidence on overpass on the Da Nang-Quang Ngai Highway. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) -The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam (DRVN) has called on various agencies to fulfilltheir responsibility for maintaining transport projects on nationalhighways and expressways at the end of the year.
The move comes as severaltransport works have been damaged and degraded soon after they were putinto use.
According to the DRVN, manyinvestors had urged contractors to repair damaged road sections during themaintenance period.
However, some departments didnot pay much attention to their task. There are many works that have beendamaged or degraded during the maintenance period, but investors have not beenable to get contractors to promptly repair them. In many cases, repairs weredelayed for a long time, affecting traffic safety and causing public annoyance.
The DRVN asked the RoadAdministration and the Department of Transport to intensifyinspections, detect defects of the works and request concernedagencies to repair them.
The directorate alsohighlighted the need to evaluate the repairing work of the investor,project management board and enterprise and strictly handle violations, itsaid.
Regarding BOT(Build-Operate-Transfer) investors who fail to take responsibility formaintenance work, the DRVN asked the departments of transport and the RoadAdministration to propose fines, cut maintenance costs, stopcollecting fees, and handle contractual violations, depending on theseriousness of the violation.
For public investment projects,BT (Build-Transfer) projects and other projects, contractors would see theirproject guarantees revoked or be banned from participating in bidding fora period of time.
For projects using State funds,the units must report truthfully on the quality of the project when maintenanceexpires and take responsibility for project quality.
For projects that the Ministryof Transport, DRVN and local departments of transport are assigned to act asinvestors, the DRVN requested units to urgently ask contractors to repairdamage or defects during the maintenance period and strictly supervise therepair performance./.
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Subsidence on overpass on the Da Nang-Quang Ngai Highway. (Photo: VNA) 
