HCMC – HCMC will relocate 2,177 households in Cu Chi District to make room for a six-lane expressway connecting to neighboring Tay Ninh Province.
The VND20-trillion HCMC–Moc Bai Expressway project will be developed under a public-private partnership (PPP) in the form of a build-operate-transfer (BOT) contract.
The city has approved Component 3 of the project, which involves land compensation, resettlement support, and site clearance within HCMC. This component is designed to prepare the ground for Component 1, which focuses on expressway construction, and Component 2, which will build service roads and overpasses, reported the Vietnam News Agency.
The HCMC section of the expressway will start from Beltway No. 3 and end at the city’s border with Tay Ninh. The route will pass through 11 communes in Cu Chi District.
The project will impact an estimated 2.2 million square meters of land, including more than 1.9 million square meters of agricultural land and over 61,000 square meters of residential land. A total of 2,177 cases will be affected by the land clearance work. Among them, 254 households are eligible for resettlement plots, while 178 households have built homes on agricultural land.
Component 3 requires an estimated budget of VND5.05 trillion, sourced from the state budget. The Cu Chi District authority is expected to hand over public land not subject to compensation by April 30 to allow for mine clearance operations. Compensation and resettlement plans will be drafted and approved in the second quarter of 2025. Compensation payments and additional land handovers will follow in the third and fourth quarters of the year.
Relocation of technical infrastructure is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of this year, in line with the construction timelines of the other project components. This work is expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2027.
The full expressway will span 51 kilometers, with 24.7 kilometers in HCMC and the remaining 26.3 kilometers in Tay Ninh.
