Truong Thi Mai, Chairwoman of the National Assembly’s Committee forSocial Affairs, has hailed Ho Chi Minh City for its achievements inpoverty reduction, saying the city has set the highest poverty linenationwide.
She made the appraisal while inspecting thecity’s implementation of policies and laws on poverty reduction duringthe 2005-2012 period on December 25-26.
HCM City is the onlylocality across the country that provides codes to poor households, Maisaid, adding that the city has devised particular policies on povertyreduction suitable with each period of time.
It recentlydecided to raise poverty benchmark to 16 million VND (752 USD) perperson per year for 2014-2015 from 12 million VND set for the previousperiod.
The move has made it easier for local people toaccess the State’s policies, she noted, highlighting the city’smobilisation of various resources to the programme along with itsbudget.
Mai suggested the locality pay more attention to improving living standards of households near the poverty line.
HCM City now has about 16,000 poor households with nine districtshaving no poor households. Between 2005 and 2012, the city granted morethan 2 million health insurance cards to poor people at a cost of 428billion VND, and built and upgraded over 17,400 houses.
Vietnam had over 2.1 million poor households and more than 1.4 million others living near the poverty line in 2012.
A survey conducted by the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and SocialAffairs showed that the poverty rate in 2012 was reduced by 2.12percent, exceeding the target of 2 percent set by the National Assembly.In particular, the rate sharply fell in poor districts with 7.02percent while the NA target was just 4 percent.-VNA
She made the appraisal while inspecting thecity’s implementation of policies and laws on poverty reduction duringthe 2005-2012 period on December 25-26.
HCM City is the onlylocality across the country that provides codes to poor households, Maisaid, adding that the city has devised particular policies on povertyreduction suitable with each period of time.
It recentlydecided to raise poverty benchmark to 16 million VND (752 USD) perperson per year for 2014-2015 from 12 million VND set for the previousperiod.
The move has made it easier for local people toaccess the State’s policies, she noted, highlighting the city’smobilisation of various resources to the programme along with itsbudget.
Mai suggested the locality pay more attention to improving living standards of households near the poverty line.
HCM City now has about 16,000 poor households with nine districtshaving no poor households. Between 2005 and 2012, the city granted morethan 2 million health insurance cards to poor people at a cost of 428billion VND, and built and upgraded over 17,400 houses.
Vietnam had over 2.1 million poor households and more than 1.4 million others living near the poverty line in 2012.
A survey conducted by the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and SocialAffairs showed that the poverty rate in 2012 was reduced by 2.12percent, exceeding the target of 2 percent set by the National Assembly.In particular, the rate sharply fell in poor districts with 7.02percent while the NA target was just 4 percent.-VNA
