National target programmes need more urgency toward completion: Deputy PM

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang asked stakeholders to implement national target programmes much more rapidly while chairing an online conference on August 28.
National target programmes need more urgency toward completion: Deputy PM ảnh 1At the event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister TranLuu Quang asked stakeholders to implement nationaltarget programmes much more rapidly while chairing an online conference onAugust 28.

The conference, which was linked with 63 provincesand centrally-run cities, reviewed the implementation of the national targetprogrammes on new-style rural area building, socio-economic development inmountainous and ethnic minority-inhabited areas, and sustainable povertyreduction for the 2021-2025 period to set forth major solutions in the timeahead.

Deputy PM Quang, who is also head of the CentralSteering Committee for National Target Programmes, urged ministries, agenciesand localities to raise proposals in order to quickly remove obstacles to the work.
Capital sources should be integrated flexibly toaccelerate the disbursement and raise their efficiency, he suggested.

The National Assembly will for the first timeconduct a thematic supervision on the implementation of the three programmes eventhough they are at the halfway stage as part of the legislature’s sixth meeting,slated for October, according to the official.

He assigned the Ministry of Planning and Investment(MPI), the Government Office and concerned agencies to prepare documents andreports on the realisation of relevant resolutions adopted by the legislativebody in anticipation of the meeting.

The MPI reported that institutions and managementmechanisms have been issued to ensure the legal foundation for theimplementation of the programmes.

Between 2021 and 2023, more than 83 trillion VND(3.44 billion USD) sourced from the State budget has been allocated toministries, centrally-run agencies and localities to put the programmes inplace.

More than 16 trillion VND had been disbursed so farthis year, fulfilling 47.81% of the yearly plan, the ministry said.

At the meeting, localities proposed that capitalallocation be informed in advance so that they can set forth disbursementplans./.
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