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So far, the North-South Highway project of Hòa Liên - Túy Loan section has cleared 87%.

As noted, along the highway many positions have not yet been handed over to the construction unit due to land clearance work.

Directorate of Roads Ho Chi Minh city It is reported that many plots of land were handed over by the Ho Vang district to investors in the project. However, when the contractor came to work, he was blocked by citizens for not receiving compensation.

In particular, the district implemented two solutions to accelerate the construction of new resettlement areas and transfer some households to existing residential areas in order to have a clean surface for the project.

What's the hold-up on ground deliveries?

Mr. Võ Nguyên Chương, Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment in Da Nang City said that clearing the site is a very complex task involving many policies, completing files takes time.

The local government is speeding up the project site clearance.

According to Mr. Chang, the slow progress of surface clearance has many pitfalls. Specifically, from January 2024, the local government started taking over the project file resulting in delays. The volume of files to be cleared for Hòa Liên Túy Loan highway is very large, requiring simultaneous implementation for both the main highway line and two-lane expressways.

"There are currently 272 land records on line with as many as 792 plots of resettled lands. However, the projects implemented to resolve the resettlement land is slow. Among them, the local resettlement for people from Ho Son community. The population in this community is mostly Catholics who want to relocate locally to live their religious activities. This is a very big obstacle point for Hò Vang district's plain liberation council to mobilize people to hand over land", said Mr. Chang.

Besides, previously there were many projects along the highway that had reclaimed land so it took a long time to retrieve old records in order to ensure objective, fair, non-repetitive compensation for the part of the area that was reclaimed.