Stop a "premature" resolution

(Baonghean) - The meeting of the Provincial People's Committee to give comments on the draft resolutions to be submitted to the upcoming Provincial People's Council meeting has 10 resolutions, including contents that have been discussed many times. There are resolutions that need to be passed, there are resolutions that are not feasible and need to be stopped, so the decision of the leader is very important.

In fact, in many places and forums, most of the issued resolutions have been passed, and many resolutions have been issued but are overlapping, unfeasible or not known to the people. However, at this meeting, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee decided not to issue a resolution on mobilizing capital for new rural construction at the upcoming Provincial People's Council meeting and received the support of the conference.

Before that, all delegates had their opinions. The Finance Department, who kept the money, advised that it was necessary to focus on what was most practical for the people in building the new countryside, choosing to identify a number of key investment items for each year, and classifying priority investment subjects. The planner said that currently many programs are investing in the countryside, not just the new countryside program, so it is necessary to summarize some investment contents, what are the district and commune resources. The expert (Agriculture) said that it is very necessary to have a master plan to unify the direction of program implementation because currently many documents from both the Central and local governments are not unified, especially regarding investment resources...

After listening to the opinions, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in developing the Project on policy mechanisms to mobilize resources in the construction of new rural areas in the period of 2015 - 2020, and also found it necessary to have a resolution on mobilizing investment resources for the program, as a basis for the Provincial People's Committee to issue a Decision approving the Capital Mobilization Mechanism. However, based on the analysis: In 2010, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 800 on Approving the National Target Program on New Rural Construction from 2010 to 2020, which stipulated that the investment budget capital was 40%, the rest was from other sources such as people's contributions, credit capital, capital mobilized from enterprises and other components. But on June 8, 2012, due to insufficient budget balance for investment, the Prime Minister issued Decision 695/2012 of the Prime Minister on amending the capital support mechanism, in which, the Provincial People's Council was assigned to regulate the support level for new rural construction projects depending on local conditions.

Meanwhile, the new rural construction movement is widespread, many places are excited because they think they will be supported with 40% of the budget capital, so a new form of public debt occurs, which is that communes owe contractors, and do not know when they will be able to pay. In fact, with Decision No. 695/TTCP, the Government has given autonomy to localities, by assigning the Provincial People's Council to balance finances to support depending on the conditions of each locality. According to Decision 695, the Budget only invests 100% in 3 contents: Planning, Construction of Commune People's Committee headquarters, Training. For the remaining communes (not commune 30a), partial support from the state budget is for: Construction of roads to the commune center, village and hamlet roads; intra-field traffic and intra-field canals; construction of standard schools; construction of commune health stations; Building communal cultural houses... The provincial People's Council shall decide on the level of support from the state budget for each specific content and work, ensuring that it is consistent with the reality and support requirements of each locality.

Thus, to implement Decision 695, the local budget needs a huge resource. The province's goals and tasks are very heavy, by the end of 2015, 20% of communes must reach the new rural finish line (equivalent to 90 communes), by 2020, 50% of communes must reach the new rural finish line, equivalent to 216 communes. Such a large level of support, recently cement factories are demanding debt for cement, can the local budget meet it? Meanwhile, the capital contributed by the people in the past three years reached 4,024,568 billion VND, accounting for 29%, which is also very large. Therefore, it is impossible to issue a resolution at this time when the budget is not guaranteed to implement the project. And the final decision is not to bring this issue to the upcoming meeting.

Chau Lan