Power and telecom enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City have reached a
cooperation agreement to facilitate the work of removing overhead power
lines, phone and television cables and burying them underground.
The agreement was signed on August 13 between the HCM City Power
Corporation (EVNHCMC) and five enterprises Viettel Group, HCM City VNPT
(Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications and Telecommunications Group),
Saigontourist Cable Television Co Ltd, FPT Telecom Company and HCM City
Electric Power Trading Investment Corporation.
The agreement aims
to prevent repeated digging of roads and pavements to bury lines due to
a lack of coordination between different agencies.
To date, nine
out of 20 projects that are targeted for completion this year have been
fully implemented burying 11 kilometres of medium voltage and 19
kilometres of low voltage power lines, said NguyenAnh Vu, head of EVNHCM
City’s public relations department.
By the end of the 2015 year,
400 km of medium voltage lines and 500km of low voltage lines in the
city’s inner districts 1 and 3 would be put under ground, he said.
The city hopes to have all power lines and communications cables in 14
other districts buried between 2016 and 2012, he said.
Lines and
cables in administrative areas, commercial centres and new urban areas
in the remaining districts would also be buried during the 2016-20
period, he added.-VNA