The Vietnamese Government has adopted a plan to help residents along the Vietnam-Lao borderline settle down by 2015 with dual aim of improving those people’s living conditions and ensuring border security.

The plan, as approved by Standing Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung in Decision 1179/QD-TTg dated August 10, will be carried out in 64 communes bordering Laos in the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam and the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum .

It targets to provide permanent settlement for 16,260 poor households in the 64 border communes and 9,609 nomadic households, along with reclaiming 9,970 ha of farming land and developing infrastructure for those people so as to help them increase per capita income by 1.5 fold compared with the 2009 income.

Apart from those works, the plan sets to develop farming, forestry and other crafts suitable for rural areas and build trans-village roads and irrigation works in the targeted communes.

It maps out solutions to execute the set tasks, including supportive policies for production, market development and product consumption, scientific and technological application, security and defence.

The plan is estimated to cost over 3.5 trillion VND, with more than 1.74 trillion VND coming from the State budget./.