Dong Nai (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Trinh DinhDung inspected the land seizure, compensation and resettlement serving theconstruction of Long Thanh International Airport in southern Dong Nai provinceon April 12, urging site clearance to be finished before 2021.

The Deputy PM said the State pays specialattention to the resettlement and ensuring of the life, employment and incomeof affected people. It knows that the displaced people will face certaindifficulties, so relevant agencies have made plans on vocational training andjob generation to help stablise their lives. Local administration will alsobuild resettlement areas to ensure that they will have a better life than inold living places.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People’sCommittee Tran Van Vinh said nearly 5,400ha of land needs to be taken back tobuild Long Thanh airport. As a result, nearly 4,900 households with over 15,500people will be resettled. Dong Nai is going to build two resettlement areasnamed Loc An – Binh Son and Binh Son in Long Thanh district.

As income of the displaced families will beaffected, the province plans to support them with an amount of money equivalentto 4.5 times of the monthly region-based minimum wage at the time of the landseizure in order to help recover their income.

The province is carrying out a plan onvocational training, job creation and life reorganisation for the targetedpeople, Vinh said, noting that relevant agencies have also been asked toenhance land and construction management in the project area.

The provincial People’s Committee is ready forcompensation and site clearance. However, as the feasibility study reporthasn’t been approved, it is unable to carry out the work. He urged the State’s appraisalcouncil to promptly review this feasibility study report so as to submit it tothe Prime Minister for approval.

Dong Nai also asked the Government and theMinistry of Transport to soon build transport infrastructure linking with LongThanh airport, particularly expanding Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau GiayExpressway and building Bien Hoa-Vung Tau Expressway.

At the working session, Deputy PM Dung asked theTransport Ministry to accelerate the making of the feasibility study report onthe Long Thanh project to submit it to the National Assembly in late 2019. 

He requested a medium-term investment plan for2021-2025 be created and it will be a basis for the Ministry of Finance and theMinistry of Planning and Investment to allocate capital for the building.Relevant parties also need to make a plan on transport and infrastructureconnection both inside and outside the project.

Long Thanh airport aims to serve 100 millionpassengers and 5 million tonnes of cargo each year. The project includes threephases with the first one expected to begin in 2020 and be done no later than2025.

It is hoped to help ease the overload at Tan SonNhat International Airport in nearby Ho Chi Minh City.-VNA