HCM City People's Committee have just proposed to build two schools and a park on the land of Binh Hung Hoa Cemetery after removing the graves from the site.
Addressing a Monday meeting, HCM City People's Committee Chairman Phan Van Mai presented the VND 1.50 trillion construction project which would be carried out between 2023-2026.
According to the city chairman, the city launched a plan to relocate 54,000 graves over 40 hectares at Binh Hung Hoa Cemetery in Binh Tan District in 2014. So far, 29,242 graves have been relocated elsewhere.
"We're going to build the school and park projects on an area of 17.30 hectares," the official said.
Lying 12km from the city centre, Binh Hung Hoa covers 53 hectares in Binh Tan District and is the biggest cemetery in HCM City. It was built before 1975 and has more than 70,000 graves.
As planned, Binh Tan will finish clearing all of the graves by 2025.
