Transport minister fires entire project management unit for tardy progress

February 27, 2015 | 09:49
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The Vietnamese Transport Minister has decided to replace the entire management project unit that is in charge of road upgrade projects in south-central Vietnam after finding it should be held responsible for the projects’ tardy progress.

Minister Dinh La Thang made the decision at a meeting of his ministry in Hanoi on Tuesday.

Accordingly, the entire project management unit (PMU2) that is in charge of projects to upgrade and expand the National Highway 1 sections that run through Binh Dinh and Phu Yen provinces in south central Vietnam will be replaced with the PMU for the Ho Chi Minh Road project.

The replacement came after Minister Thang took a trip to oversee the project, which will enlarge the national highway through Binh Dinh, on February 21.

At the above meeting, Thang said the PMU2 failed to maintain control over the projects under its authority, while the projects’ contractors showed poor performance and the investors exposed weak capabilities.

The minister also commented that the ministry’s relevant management agencies have not been decisive in giving directions for the implementation of the projects in question.

He requested that the ministry’s concerned agencies re-assess the capabilities of the projects’ investors and contractors and replace unqualified ones with qualified ones.

During the above Binh Dinh trip, the minister urged the project’s investor and contractor to make the best use of their resources to step up progress, according to Phap Luat Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh (Ho Chi Minh City Law) newspaper.

“In March I will inspect the project’s development again and any shortcomings will be strictly handled,” the newspaper quoted the minister as saying.

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