According to the decision dated October 26, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to review and balance the total capital of the medium-term public investment plan for the 2021-2025 period that has been allocated and allocated in sufficient quantity. capital mentioned above.

With the above decision, the biggest obstacle of the Ban Mong Lake project - the largest irrigation project in Nghe An, providing water for nearly 19,000 hectares and generating electricity with a capacity of 45MW - will be removed.

Mr. Hoang Xuan Thinh, Director of Irrigation Investment and Construction Management Board 4 (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), said that in the near future, relevant ministries and branches will balance capital to ensure project completion. progress. The basic key work has been completed, in the coming time we will focus on clearing the lake bed.

Ban Mong Lake was built on the upstream of Hieu River in Yen Hop and Quy Hop communes. The lake bed is 25 km2 wide, mainly located in Quy Chau district (Nghe An) and part of Nhu Xuan district (Thanh Hoa), with a capacity of 225 million m3 of water.

The project is invested by the state budget, managed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. According to the capital allocation plan, the period 2010-2020 is more than 3,490 billion VND, 2021-2025 is more than 2,050 billion VND, but only 1,820 billion VND has been allocated, leaving a shortage of more than 230 billion VND.

Due to lack of capital, the project started in 2009 and was expected to be completed in 2015, but had to be paused. Construction took a long time, while regimes, policies, norms, unit prices, as well as the amount of compensation and site clearance required many changes. Compensation and resettlement support for hundreds of affected households cannot therefore be implemented. This makes people unable to stabilize their lives, traffic projects, schools, clinics... are not invested.

In July 2022, along with the working group surveying Ban Mong Lake, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that one of the reasons leading to the project being prolonged, not on schedule, and causing waste was the allocation of public investment capital. scattered, fragmented, unfocused. Reality raises the problem of legal gaps related to the Law on Public Investment, so he assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to preside and coordinate with the Ministry of Justice, the Government Office and the Ministry of Planning and Investment. Invest in reviewing regulations and reporting to the Standing Government to consider handling plans .