Hanoi works to speed up disbursement of investment projects
Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Dinh Tien Dung has asked for more concerted, drastic and effective measures to speed up the disbursement of investment projects, especially key ones.
Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Dinh Tien Dung (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Dinh Tien Dunghas asked for more concerted, drastic and effective measures to speed up thedisbursement of investment projects, especially key ones.
At an October 18 working session betweenthe city’s delegation of National Assembly (NA) deputies and standing membersof the municipal People’s Council, People’s Committee, and several agencies inpreparation for the 15th NA’s upcoming fourth session, he required the municipal People’s Committee, departments,sectors and localities to quickly carry out a project to build Ring RoadNo.4, especially in site clearance and resettlement.
The city will take the performance of this task as one ofthe important criteria for evaluating officials, he stressed.
The city leader also asked for specific investment plans inthe fields of health, education and culture./.
The People’s Committee of Hanoi has assigned relevant departments, sectors and the Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board (MRB) to start a project studying the building of the urban railway route No.6, the section from Noi Bai to Ngoc Hoi.
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Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Dinh Tien Dung (Photo: VNA) 
