Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said progress and quality of the Son La hydroelectric project must be tightly monitored, and local ethnic people residents who have been displaced by the project must be assisted to stabilise their lives in new resettlement areas. Dung met with the project management board, consultants and various units of the project yesterday as he visited the northern mountainous province of Son La. He praised them for ensuring the initial progress of the hydroelectric project and wished a happy new year to cadres, engineers, workers and ethnic minority people in the province.
The Son La hydroelectric project was a model for others to follow, Dung said, and would go into history in terms of project progress and quality, with the first plant to go into operation by the end of 2010 and the whole project to be completed by 2012, two years ahead of the original plan.
Dung lauded the Party Committee, provincial authorities and ethnic people in Son La in leading other northwest provinces in socio-economic development last year. Economic growth in the province was over 13 per cent.
Dung also praised the province for effectively handling the resettlement of ethnic minority people displaced by the hydroelectric project. 4,000 households out of a total of 13,000 had been resettled and were enjoying a better life in new resettlement areas.
On the occasion of the lunar new year, Dung presented gifts to cadres, engineers and workers at the Son La hydroelectric project, as well as to ethnic people in the communes of It Ong and Nam Pan in Muong Lay District.
He visited and wished a happy new year to all resettled households in Tan Quynh Village in Mai Son District’s Co Noi Commune. Dung said he was pleased at witnessing people here enjoying a better life thanks to district efforts at providing housing, water and farm land.
Dung presented TV sets and other gifts to thirty households in Tan Quynh Village to help them celebrate the lunar new year.
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