The provincial People’s Committee has worked to accelerate the construction of the Hoa Binh – Hanoi highway and the Hoa Binh – Moc Chau section of the Son La highway, which received in-principle approval from the provincial People’s Council in 2021.
Construction sped up for the highway section
that runs through Du sang Commune, Kim Boi district.
Kim Boi and Luong Son districts and Hoa Binh
city rushed to carry out compensation and resettlement work.
Kim Boi issued 18 decisions to retrieve 24.52
hectares of land in Du Sang, Binh Son, Vinh Tien, Dong Bac, and Vinh Dong
communes and Bo town. As much as 56.96 billion VND (2.31 million USD) was
disbursed for compensation and site clearance costs. The district also
implemented three sub-projects to develop a resettlement area in Du Sang and
Vinh Tien communes, and one in Ving Dong commune.
Meanwhile, Luong Son district approved four
decisions on land and asset compensation with a total value of 26 billion VND.
It expects to hand over around 1.5 kilometres of road in March.
As for Hoa Binh city, compensation measures for
122 households is being penned while a decision on compensation plan for
graves, land and assets on land worth 224 million VND has been approved. The
city is proposing a compensation plan for residential land and agricultural
land valued some 20 billion VND.
The management board of the local transport
projects joined hands with competent departments and sectors to remove
bottlenecks regarding land filling plans, waste disposal arrangements, changes
in forest use purposes, and moving electricity lines.
After the site clearance was completed, the
contractor carried out construction on the section connecting Kim Boi district
with Hoa Lac – Hoa Binh expressway intersection. To date, 61.08% of the
workload has been completed.
Vice Chairman of the Kim Boi district People’s
Committee Tran Tuan Son said that the construction is underway at the sites of
Chieng bridge (Vinh Dong commune), Bai Chau bridge (Dong Bac commune), Dong
Ngoai bridge (Vinh Tien commune), Kham bridge (Binh Son commune), and Chuon and
Chuon 1 bridges (Du Sang commune).
The district is working to accelerate site
clearance at the remaining three sites, he added.
The highway construction project is among the
key ones which will create a locomotive for local socio-economic development.
Therefore, the provincial People’s Committee has paid due attention to handling
roadblocks to push ahead the construction progress. Most recently, Vice
Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Quach Tat Liem inspected the
construction progress at the sites. He asked the investors, departments,
sectors, districts and city where the highways run through to drastically
settle the site clearance work and accelerate construction for the roads.
In recent years, Mai Ha commune in Mai Chau district has been making efforts to restructure its crops and livestock to improve production efficiency, enhance the quality of life, and increase income for local residents. Notably, the cultivation of watermelon in line with Vietnamese Goods Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) standards has helped local people escape poverty.
Hoa Binh province scored 43.5493 points in the 2023 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), ranking 20th out of the 63 provinces and cities nationwide, up 23 places compared to the 2022 list. The results show people's satisfaction with the effectiveness of implementing State policies and laws, local governance, and providing public services by authorities at all levels in the province.
With the motto of "polite, dedicated, professional, and lawful,” over the years, Phu Cuong commune in Tan Lac district has gradually improved the quality of processing administrative procedures, winning high satisfaction from local people and businesses.
Stretching over 300 meters, valued at hundreds of million dong and built to the new-style rural standards, a concrete road in De hamlet, Bac Phong commune, Cao Phong district, was completed by the end of 2023 thanks to the collective contributions of armed forces at provincial and district levels coupled with the active participation of military units stationed throughout the district.
Over the years, the People’s Committee of Lac Thuy district has issued many plans and programmes to speed up the administrative reform, aiming to better serve local people and businesses.
Kim Boi district is drafting 23 planning projects which are expected to help boost the local socio-economic development, attract investors, and mobilise resources for development, said Vice chairman of the district People’s Committee Tran Tuan Son.
They include the one on Bo urban area development until 2045, 20 zoning, and 12 on rural residential areas in communes.