Ninh Thuan will spend nearly 32 million USD on poverty reduction. (Photo: VNA) Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s CommitteeNguyen Long Bien said it has issued a decision on the implementation of theNational Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction by 2025.
Accordingly, nearly 730 billion VND (31.88 millionUSD) will be spent on the work, of which 640 billion VND comes fromthe central budget and 60.4 is sourced from the local budget.
Ninh Thuan will strive to reduce its multidimensionalpoverty rate by 1.5-2 percent by 2025, and the rate of poor ethnic minorityhouseholds by over 3 percent.
To that end, the province will roll out seven projects,focusing on socio-economic infrastructure development in poor districts and coastalcommunes in extremely difficult circumstances, diversification of non-agriculture ways to earn living, productionsupport, vocational training, housing for poor and near-poor families, and communications work.
Localities have been asked to integrate the NationalTarget Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction into new-style rural areabuilding, Bien said, adding that effective poverty reduction models will berolled out on a larger scale.
Currently, Ninh Thuan counts 14,208 poor households, makingup 7.28 percent of the total households in the province, and 12,887 near-poorhouseholds or 7.09 percent/.
VNA
