3 criteria for Border Guard Stations in remote areas

The Government issued Decree 114/2017/ND-CP regulating Border Guard Stations in remote and isolated areas.

In addition to patrolling and protecting the border, border guards also help people build new rural areas and teach poor children to read and write. Photo: VNA.

According to regulations, Border Guard Stations in remote areas are Border Guard Stations that have one of the following criteria:

1- Stationing and managing mountainous communes, island communes, and coastal areas with complex, rugged, and isolated natural terrain, difficult transportation, and far from district-level administrative centers.

2- Stationing and managing mountainous and island communes with regional allowances of 0.2 or more and special allowances of 30% or more according to regulations of competent state agencies.

3- Stationing and managing communes and wards in areas of importance for political security, order and social safety.

The Government requires that the identification of Border Guard Stations in remote areas must be consistent with the requirements of the judicial reform program; meeting the criteria for identifying Border Guard Stations in remote areas as prescribed above.

Annually, based on the socio-economic development situation of the provinces and centrally-run cities with borders; the requirements of the Border Guard's crime prevention and combat work, the Minister of National Defense decides to add or remove from the List of Border Guard Stations in remote and isolated areas.

According to Giaoduc.net