Rapid Implementation of the 500kV transmission line Project, 3rd circuit Quang Trach – Pho Noi

Rapid Implementation of the 500kV transmission line Project, 3rd circuit Quang Trach – Pho Noi​ (Image from Internet)

Rapid Implementation of the 500kV transmission line Project, 3rd circuit Quang Trach – Pho Noi

After inspecting the progress of the 500kV transmission line Project, 3rd circuit in Thanh Hoa and Nghe An provinces (afternoon of June 22 and morning of June 23, 2024), Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting with Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces to expedite the progress of 500kV transmission line Project, 3rd circuit from Quang Trach (Quang Binh) to Pho Noi (Hung Yen).

According to Notification 288/TB-VPCP dated June 29, 2024, after a general assessment of the project progress, Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam Pham Minh Chinh concluded as follows:

The project is entering the final phase and urgent completion of remaining tasks is required; for the completion and commissioning, many tasks remain, requiring high determination, greater efforts, and more aggressive actions. The Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam mandates the following tasks for the upcoming period:

(1) Vietnam Electricity, National Power Transmission Corporation shall organize a special high-peak, fast, rapid campaign, mobilizing all forces to strive to basically complete pole erection and cable-stretching tasks by June. In July, finalize the inspection, technical acceptance procedures, and organize the project inauguration, while ensuring good restoration and environmental sanitation work; swiftly stabilize the livelihoods of households in project-affected areas to avoid disruptions to business production and local people's lives.

(2) Ministry of Industry and Trade and relevant ministries, agencies shall closely coordinate with Vietnam Electricity, National Power Transmission Corporation to review, focus on implementing subsequent tasks according to functions, duties, and legal authorities, and promptly address any issues or obstacles affecting the project progress. In particular, the Office of the Government of Vietnam shall cooperate with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to promptly report to Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam Tran Hong Ha for resolving any issues related to the forest usage area for the 500 kV Quang Trach - Quynh Luu power line project, ensuring no delays.

(3) Local authorities shall expedite the completion of all corridor handover tasks; mobilize local youth, women, and veterans’ unions to assist construction units on-site with transporting materials, equipment, ensuring logistics, environmental sanitation, and traffic streamlining... At the same time, decisively resolve compensation and resettlement tasks for residents; enhance inspection and supervision to ensure that relocated residents must live in conditions as good as or better than their previous ones.

(4) Media and press agencies shall continue focusing on reporting news, articles, images, documentaries on the good practices and valuable lessons learned during the project implementation, from leadership, coordination among ministries and agencies; the mobilization of resources, the strength of the entire political system in implementing the project, not only in site clearance but also in the sacrifices, offering of homes, farming lands, production and livelihoods by the people for the project, creating the “rapid progress” of the project to promptly motivate, inspire, and create momentum and enthusiasm in labor not only in the electricity sector but across various fields nationwide.

Detailed conclusions of Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam Pham Minh Chinh here.

Tran Trong Tin

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