Ho Chi Minh City People's Council delegates agree to postpone school milk program

Delegates vote to approve issues discussed during the session. Photo: Thanh Chung/VNA

The 14th session (extraordinary session) of the 9th Ho Chi Minh City People's Council held on May 11 discussed and approved a number of important contents in implementing the tasks of economic, cultural and social development of the city.

Attending the meeting were Politburo member, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan.

At the meeting, delegates approved resolutions on adjusting and supplementing the medium-term public investment plan for the 2016-2020 period; agreed on the prize money for each Ho Chi Minh City innovation award, specifically, the first prize is 100 million VND, the second prize is 80 million VND, and the third prize is 60 million VND.

The meeting also passed a Resolution on adjusting the investment policy of the public investment project for the project of compensation and site clearance for public works land in Ward 6, Tan Binh District, which was approved by the City People's Council in Resolution 08 dated August 26, 2015.

The project name was adjusted to the Project to support land acquisition for investment in building a cluster of public schools according to national standards on public works land in Ward 6, Tan Binh District; at the same time, the total project investment was adjusted to increase from VND 300 billion to VND 401 billion.

At the meeting, delegates also agreed to adjust the implementation time of the School Milk Program Project to improve nutritional status, contributing to improving the stature of preschool children and primary school students in the period of 2018-2020 in Ho Chi Minh City. Accordingly, the project will be piloted in 10 districts from the first semester of the 2019-2020 school year, instead of from the second semester of the 2018-2019 school year.

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Ms. Nguyen Thi Le - Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council emphasized that the City People's Council highly appreciated the efforts and determination of the City People's Committee in organizing and implementing the socio-economic development tasks in 2019.

In the first quarter of 2019, the city's socio-economic performance achieved positive results, creating a basic premise for the development of industrial production, trade, and services. Administrative reform was implemented vigorously, and people's cultural enjoyment was gradually improved...

Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council Nguyen Thi Le also informed about the City People's Council's supervisory activities in the coming time...

Speaking at the meeting, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan assessed that 2019 is a decisive year for completing the targets and tasks of the 10th City Party Congress and a year of breakthrough in administrative reform and implementation of Resolution No. 54 of the National Assembly. The City Party Committee and the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee have focused on leading and directing Party committees at all levels to review the implementation of the targets of the Congress Resolution at their level to strengthen inspection, supervision, assessment and forecast the ability to implement and accelerate the progress of completing the city's breakthrough programs; The City Party Committee has assigned each member of the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee to be the head of the delegation to supervise the implementation of breakthrough programs to implement the Resolution of the 10th City Party Congress.

On behalf of the City Party Committee Executive Committee, Secretary of the City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan called on the city's people, all cadres, civil servants, and Party members to promote the tradition of creativity, solidarity, resilience, and actively implement the creative labor emulation movement so that the city can complete the socio-economic tasks for the 2015-2020 period, building a civilized, modern, affectionate, and happy city.