Nghe An urges progress of national target programs for ethnic minorities and mountainous areas

On the morning of August 29, the Inspection Delegation of the Ethnic Committee on the inspection of the implementation of the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, led by comrade Y Vinh Tor - Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister, Vice Chairman of the Ethnic Committee, had a working session with the People's Committee of Nghe An province.

Attending the meeting on behalf of Nghe An province were members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee: Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Vi Van Son - Head of the Provincial Ethnic Minorities Committee; also attending were representatives of departments, branches and sectors.

Focus on directing implementation

Speaking at the meeting, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Bui Dinh Long said: Implementing the National Target Program on socio-economic development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas in Nghe An province for the period 2021-2025, the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Council, and Provincial People's Committee of Nghe An province have focused on directing and urging sectors and coordinating with localities to implement the program; Steering Committees and Working Groups at all levels have been established, consolidated and operated effectively in management and operation.

The total plan for development investment capital from the central budget for the 2021-2025 period assigned to units and localities is 2,649,811 million VND in the Resolutions of the Provincial People's Council.

In 3 years (2022, 2023, 2024), the Provincial People's Council has allocated a total of 1,923,805 million VND from the central budget, reaching 72.6% of the plan for the whole period; the Provincial People's Committee has allocated 1,923,598 million VND to the units, reaching 99.98% of the plan assigned by the Provincial People's Council. The total plan for public capital from the central budget assigned in 3 years (2022, 2023, 2024) is 1,944,931 million VND. The Provincial People's Committee has allocated 3,753 million VND from the local budget to the units to implement Project 1.

The results of the program are contributing to changing the picture for the better in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the province: infrastructure for transport, schools, medical stations, electricity grid, domestic water... are receiving attention for investment in new construction, upgrading and repair.

New rural construction is increasingly flourishing, solving people's essential needs in production, business, trade, study, health care... creating livelihoods, improving people's knowledge, gradually stabilizing material and spiritual life, contributing significantly to preserving and promoting the fine cultural identities of ethnic minorities.

By the end of 2022 and 2023, the poverty rate compared to 2021 and 2022 in ethnic minority and mountainous areas will decrease by about 3.63% and 3.74%, exceeding the planned targets and assigned tasks.

"Nghe An province commits to focus on drastically implementing and directing the acceleration of unfinished projects to complete them in the 2024-2025 period; at the same time, the provincial leaders assigned departments and branches to review and grasp information on unimplemented projects to report to the Central Government. At the same time, the province will learn from experience, based on the implementation in the 2021-2025 period, so that the next phase can be implemented more drastically and effectively," affirmed Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Bui Dinh Long.

Besides the achieved results, the direction and implementation of the program in the initial period of implementation at all levels, some sectors and localities still had many difficulties; the process of approaching, researching and implementing at the local level as well as some provincial units encountered many difficulties and shortcomings, and some contents were not implemented.

At the same time, the selection and approval of investment project portfolios is slow, with low efficiency and needs to be adjusted, supplemented and revised. The progress of implementing projects and sub-projects of the program is still slow, the disbursement rate of capital sources is still low, especially career capital.

At the meeting, members of the working delegation and delegates discussed many issues to continue to resolve difficulties of the province related to mechanisms, policies and obstacles in some specific projects and sub-projects.

Speed ​​up progress

Concluding the meeting, comrade Y Vinh Tor - Deputy Minister, Vice Chairman of the Ethnic Committee highly appreciated the advisory work of the Provincial Ethnic Committee, and at the same time commended the efforts and proactiveness of the locality to effectively implement the national target programs for the period 2021 - 2025 in the area.

Nghe An is one of six localities nationwide that has issued a mechanism to mobilize resources to implement national target programs for ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

Sharing the specific difficulties of the locality, comrade Y Vinh Tor suggested that in the coming time, Nghe An province should continue to focus on urging the implementation of the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

In particular, focus on accelerating the disbursement progress of projects and sub-projects under the program (by August 15, Nghe An's disbursement rate reached over 34%); continue efforts in guiding and monitoring the disbursement rate of public capital sources. The province needs to direct departments and branches to resolve specific problems and difficulties within their authority.

According to comrade Y Vinh Tor, the national target program focuses on a specific group of ethnic minorities living in the most difficult areas, so the province needs to base on the actual situation of the locality, review each project to deploy to the right target, promote effectiveness in practice; strengthen inspection, supervision, and remove difficulties and obstacles.

Regarding the difficulties and problems of the province, the Deputy Minister and Vice Chairman of the Ethnic Committee assigned the relevant Departments and units to fully synthesize them. The Ethnic Committee received, advised and resolved them according to its authority.

Previously, the inspection team went to the field to inspect and grasp the implementation of the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in Ky Son, Tuong Duong and Con Cuong districts.