Unifying the management agency of the Son La - Dien Bien expressway project

On the afternoon of January 12, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha chaired a meeting to listen to a report on the investment project for the Son La - Dien Bien - Tay Trang Border Gate section (phase 1).

The first phase of the route starts at the border between Dien Bien and Son La provinces, the end point connects with Dien Bien Phu ward, with a scale of 4 complete lanes and 2 emergency lanes.

The project uses public investment capital, with a total preliminary investment of about VND 23,252 billion.

Currently, the provisions of the law on public investment have allowed localities to be the competent authority to implement investment in expressways passing through the areas of 2 or more localities.

However, for the case of investing in highways in one locality, there are no specific regulations assigning that locality to be the competent authority to carry out the investment.

Therefore, Dien Bien province proposed that the Prime Minister consider and decide to assign Dien Bien Provincial People's Committee as the project implementation management agency.

At the meeting, Deputy Minister of Construction Le Anh Tuan said that in order to have a full legal basis for implementation, the Ministry of Construction has submitted a draft decree amending and supplementing Decree 165/2024/ND-CP detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Road Law and Article 77 of the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety.

The representative of the Ministry of Finance said that the assignment of localities as the competent authorities to invest in expressway sections in a locality is not contrary to the Law on Public Investment, and there are no problems with authority, the synthesis and allocation of capital is still carried out according to the medium-term public investment plan.

Concluding the meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister agreed on the policy of assigning Dien Bien province as the investment management agency for the Son La - Dien Bien - Tay Trang Border Gate expressway section, implementing the law on public investment and related decrees.

Dien Bien province needs to prepare an investment plan as an investor. The Ministry of Finance is responsible for balancing and allocating public investment capital according to regulations.

At the meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister also agreed on the policy of assigning Son La province as the managing agency to invest in the Moc Chau - Son La expressway section for synchronous and effective implementation.

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