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Transport Minister Nguyen Van The has just signed a report to the National Assembly on thematic monitoring and questioning during the 14th period and a series of resolutions in the 13th period on the transport sector.
This report includes content on the general review of the location of the BOT toll stations, exemption policy, and reduction of road service charges. Among these, there are 4 toll stations that have been firmly opposed to existing from 2017 to now, namely the Bim Son station, the toll station on the NH3, T2 and the La Son – Tuy Loan station.
The content can be briefly summarized that there is no plan to handle these 4 tolls and the Ministry of Transport (yet) aims to use the budget for payment to investors.
The Prime Minister and the Permanent Government have held many meetings to consider them carefully and to give concrete and timely instructions.
In the past, the Ministry of Transportation has endeavored to coordinate with ministries and agencies to evaluate and propose solutions to overcome deficiencies at BOT stations on national highways.
Keep the viewpoint of using an investor payments budget.
According to the report, so far 15/19 stations have been exceeded, the safety and traffic protection situation has remained stable. For the remaining 4/19 unsuitable stations, according to the Ministry of Transport, due to their specific nature, the implementation of solutions to handle many problems, specifically:
Bim Son Station (chargeback fee for the detour route west of Thanh Hoa city), because the station is outside the scope of the project, if it continues to charge the toll to pay for the detour west of the city Thanh Hoa, there will be a risk loss of safety and traffic protection.
Implementing the Government’s findings in Notice No. 108 / TB-VPCP dated June 26, 2019, the Vietnam Highway Directorate cooperated with Thanh Hoa province authorities and the investor to study the relocation plan. Bim Son station on the west turnoff to recoup the investment.
However, since there are currently 3 parallel routes (including NH1 through Thanh Hoa City, East Ring Road and West Ring Road), at the same time there are many intersections on the route, so vehicles can avoid the station. The placement of toll booths on the western ring road cannot guarantee the amortization of the project. Therefore, it is expected to inform the competent authorities to allocate state capital to pay investors.
NH3 toll station (capital return collection for the BOT project for the construction of the Thai Nguyen – Cho Moi highway and improvement and conditioning of NH3, section Km75 – Km100): Implementation of the Prime Minister’s instructions in Document No. 100 / TTg-CN On December 20, 2018, the Ministry of Transportation worked with the Provincial Party Committee and the Thai Nguyen Provincial People’s Committee to agree on the price reduction plan.
Until now, the price reduction plan has been agreed, the functional agencies of the Ministry of Transportation and Thai Nguyen Province have spread propaganda in various forms for all classes of people. However, according to the opinion of the People’s Committee of Thai Nguyen Province, a part of the people did not agree, often gathered to protest at the toll booth, the province’s citizen reception board, requested to withdraw the toll booth and received Talk to authorized authorities.
Following the Prime Minister’s direction, the Ministry of Transport worked with the Thai Nguyen Province People’s Committee to agree on a plan to ensure safety and order of traffic before allowing the investor to organize toll collection at NH3 station in accordance with it an exemption or a reduction of the sentence has been agreed.
However, according to the opinion of the Thai Nguyen Provincial People’s Committee, complicated road safety situations may arise when toll collection is implemented; The Ministry of Transport and the Thai Nguyen Provincial People’s Committee will direct relevant agencies to make solutions to minimize the occurrence of complicated situations. In case of too much difficulty, this ministry will stop charging fees and inform the Prime Minister to organize the state capital to pay investors and eliminate stations on NH3.
T2 toll booth (amortization of the BOT project to renovate and upgrade NH91 and NH91B): Following the Prime Minister’s instructions, the Ministry of Transport has worked with the People’s Committee of Can Tho City and An Giang Province to consider options . handle problems with the T2 station.
Based on the evaluation of the security and order situation, the Ministry of Transportation agrees with the recommendations of the localities to choose the plan not to continue the toll collection at the T2 station, informing the competent authority to assign the state budget. support for investment in NH91B, to assign the Can Tho City Popular Committee the reception, management and maintenance of the mentioned section of the NH91B route.
For the La Son – Tuy Loan toll, on the basis of synthesizing the opinions of the relevant ministries, agencies and agencies, the Ministry of Finance has informed the Prime Minister and has proposed a plan not to use the La Son – Tuy toll Loan to repay, supplement the state capital to support to ensure financial efficiency. The point of view of the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Justice is that the toll collection mechanism of the La Son – Tuy Loan station is not affected by the law on the management and use of public assets, so it can still be considered for toll collection.
Due to the difficulties and problems with the solutions for the management of the inadequate stations mentioned above, so far the stations have not been charged, which causes a decrease in the income of the projects.
If not corrected early, it will disrupt the financial plan, generate bad debts, affect the country’s monetary policy as well as the environment to attract private investment, creating pressure on the budget. been in the next stages.
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