Support young intellectuals to volunteer in rural and mountainous areas
Members of the pilot project to select young intellectual volunteers to go to communes to participate in rural and mountainous development in the 2013-2020 period were supported with 10 months' salary...
The above content was provided by the Ministry of Finance in the draft Circular guiding the management and use of funds to implement the pilot project to select young intellectual volunteers to go to communes to participate in rural and mountainous development in the period 2013-2020.
Specifically, after being reinforced to the grassroots, the team members will receive salary, allowances, deductions (social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance), and other attractive policies and regimes according to the law from the local budget.
In addition, the local budget will pay support and subsidies to team members according to the provisions of Decree No. 116/2010/ND-CP dated December 24, 2010 of the Prime Minister on policies for cadres, civil servants, public employees and salary earners in the armed forces working in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, including: Initial support equal to 10 months of basic salary. In case the Project team member has a family moving with them, in addition to the initial allowance, they will be subsidized for travel expenses, luggage fees for family members traveling together and receive a regional allowance equal to 12 months of basic salary for the household.
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According to the draft, team members will receive an allowance equivalent to 70% of their current monthly salary, including: current salary and leadership position allowance, seniority allowance (if any); the period of benefit is the actual working time in the commune and not more than 5 years. They will receive an allowance for purchasing and transporting fresh and clean water to serve their daily living needs after deducting the cost of fresh water for daily living included in their salary (only applicable to areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions lacking fresh and clean water seasonally).
In addition, the local budget will also pay for team members' travel expenses to and from home during annual leave, holidays, and paid personal leave according to regulations; and pay team members' business expenses according to current regulations.
According to the Project "Pilot selection of young intellectual volunteers to communes to participate in rural and mountainous development in the period 2013-2020", by 2015, strive to select 500 excellent young intellectuals with university degrees to strengthen 500 communes in areas with especially difficult socio-economic conditions, ethnic minority and mountainous areas to arrange work in positions according to the human resource needs of each commune to help local Party committees, authorities and people develop socio-economy, contribute to hunger eradication, poverty reduction and new rural construction.
Team members participating in the Project are signed to work contracts in accordance with the law and enjoy the same regimes and policies as those for commune-level officials and civil servants as stipulated in Decree No. 92/2009/ND-CP and Decree No. 29/2013/ND-CP; and enjoy the same policies as those for officials and civil servants working in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions as stipulated in Decree No. 116/2010/ND-CP.
These team members are also entitled to participate in and enjoy social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance according to the provisions of law; and enjoy subsidies, allowances, annual leave...
According to GDVN