The Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense has agreed to earmark a plot of land in the heart of central Da Nang City for building a school and expanding roads, according to a source of Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.

In a recent dispatch to the municipal government, the ministry agreed to the city administration’s proposal to change the land use purposes of a land plot measuring 7,404 square meters, which is under management of the ministry for defense purposes, in Hai Chau District so that local authorities can manage and use the land, the source said on Friday.

Accordingly, an area of 5,366 square meters, which is at a convenient location at 271 Nguyen Tri Phuong Street, will be used to build a school and the rest will be intended for road works.

The city authorities are required to coordinate with Military Region 5 to carry out compensation, site clearance, and other necessary procedures to make the land available for school and road construction, the dispatch said.

The Da Nang administration has assigned its functional units to join the military region to proceed with the required steps.

This is a great joy for local authorities and people, Le Tu Gia Thanh, chairman of Hai Chau District, told Tuoi Tre.

Earlier, the district administration presented a project for building an elementary and secondary school and expanding small alleys to facilitate residents’ travel.

Situated in the central part of Da Nang, Hai Chau fails to have enough land to build new schools, and all the existing schools do not meet local standards, Thanh said.

As many wards of the district, including Nam Duong, Hoa Thuan Dong and Binh Hien, have no junior high schools, children have to go to schools in other localities, and the same situation is facing elementary students, the official elaborated.

Therefore, the future new school will help accommodate a great deal of local students of these two educational levels, easing the student overload at schools in the district, he added.

Recently, Da Nang authorities have recovered from a local company over 15,700 square meters of land in Thanh Khe District to build a preschool and a secondary school.

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