A series of traffic projects have been “promoted” for disbursement

On the morning of April 20, at a meeting to review the disbursement of traffic projects, Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The asked project management boards and local departments of transport to develop plans. disbursed in May reached a rate of 33% or more, out of the total budget capital of 45,000 billion assigned by the Government, instead of the initial target of nearly 30%.

Mr. The directed the Project Management Board 6 to speed up the Dien Chau – Bai Vot expressway project, the My Thuan Management Board to increase the progress and disburse the My Thuan – Can Tho highway when the sand mine for construction was completed. be solved.

In particular, the Project Management Board 7 must be determined to bring the Vinh Hao – Phan Thiet expressway project to 36% of output by April 30.

At the same time, he asked to strengthen units to focus on construction of projects such as Long Xuyen bypass, Rach Mieu 2 Bridge, Tan Van – Nhon Trach. Project Management Board 85 accelerates the completion of urgent railway and North-South expressway projects in the Cam Lam – Vinh Hao section.

“Disbursement volume has not been as expected, units have to urgently find solutions, take advantage of favorable weather to work overtime, increase crews to speed up progress and compensate for slowness,” said Mr. The.

Mr. The’s direction was given in the context that many project management boards and local departments of transport had a low disbursement rate compared to the ministry’s average of 25%. The ministry’s 7 units, including Project Management Units 2, 6, 7, 85, My Thuan, Railways and the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam, have disbursement rates ranging from 19-23%. Departments such as Thai Binh achieved 12%, Ha Giang 10%, Hai Phong 7%, Hai Duong 7%, Kon Tum 18%, Yen Bai 2%, Hau Giang 18%, Lao Cai 8%.

Mr. Tran Van Thi, Director of the My Thuan Project Management Board, said that at the beginning of the year, this unit mainly focused on bidding and contracting. The My Thuan – Can Tho expressway project recently lacked sand for embankment and soft soil treatment, making it difficult to promote progress. Ban has been very active in following up with the locality to remove difficulties. Earlier this week, Dong Thap and An Giang provinces allowed to exploit 600,000 m3 of sand for the project.

Mr. Le Thang – Director of Project Management Board 2 explained, the Board is in charge of a number of ODA-funded projects such as the traffic connection project in the Northern mountainous provinces, the project to strengthen regional transport connectivity. Central Highlands, the project of improving weak bridges and connecting bridges on national highways. However, the implementation order and procedures must comply with the regulations of the capital sponsor and often take longer than budgeted capital projects. Each procedure when the Board submits the application, the sponsor will take more than 2 working weeks to respond, in case there is an additional request or explanation, it will take the same amount of time.

In 2022, the capital plan of the Ministry of Transport assigned by the Government is more than VND 50,300 billion. But implementing decentralization for localities, 3 projects Chau Doc – Can Tho – Soc Trang, Khanh Hoa – Buon Ma Thuot, Bien Hoa – Vung Tau with a value of 5,000 billion VND this year will be delivered to localities. .

Thus, in 2022, the Ministry of Transport will have to disburse about 45,000 billion VND. The Ministry has detailed the investment plan of the state budget through 3 phases with a total of more than 42,800 billion VND.

In April, the Ministry disbursed 4,000 billion VND; accumulated by the end of April, the amount was 11,200 billion VND, achieving 25% of the detailed delivery plan and 22% of the plan assigned by the Government.

Doan Loan