30 communes in Nghe An escape from extremely difficult areas of ethnic minorities and mountainous areas

Nguyen Hai• July 16, 2021 10:18

(Baonghean.vn) - The Prime Minister has just issued decisions approving the list of communes and villages with special difficulties in ethnic minority and mountainous areas nationwide for the period 2021-2025.

According to the above decision, Nghe An province still has 76 communes and 38 villages in region III -especially difficult;131 communes in region II (communes still in difficulty) and 55 communes in region I (initial development) along with 9 districts and towns in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

Một công trình đường bê tông vào bản tại xã Hương Sơn, Tân Kỳ được hình thành từ nguồn hỗ trợ của chương trình 135 năm 2020. Ảnh: Nguyễn Hải
A concrete road project to the village in Huong Son commune (Tan Ky) was formed from support from Program 135 in 2020. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Previously, in the 2015-2020 period, Nghe An had a total of 252 communes in region III, region II and region I, of which 106 communes in region III (particularly difficult), 100 communes in region II (communes still facing difficulties) and 46 communes in region I (initial development).

Thus, Nghe An reduced 30 communes in region III, 100 communes in region II and increased 9 communes in region I. Similarly, the number of extremely disadvantaged villages and hamlets in mountainous ethnic minority areas also decreased from 1,339 villages and hamlets (including 3 regions III, II and I), of which 1,181 villages and hamlets in region III were extremely disadvantaged to 38 villages and hamlets at present.

Đường liên xã từ Nghĩa Hoàn và Tân An vào xã Hương Sơn (Tân Kỳ) đã xuống cấp nghiêm trọng cần vốn đầu tư để nâng cấp
The inter-commune road from Nghia Hoan and Tan An to Huong Son commune (Tan Ky) has seriously degraded, it is muddy in the rainy season and dusty in the dry season, and is in dire need of investment capital to upgrade. Photo: Nguyen Hai
Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Head of Planning Department, Ethnic Minorities Committee of Nghe An province said: Compared to before, currently, the criteria for evaluating and classifying extremely difficult communes and villages have changed, accordingly, communes and towns in the extremely difficult region III of ethnic minority areas must be communes with the proportion of ethnic minority households in the total number of households living stably in the community of 15% or more. Similarly, the criteria for villages and hamlets must also have the proportion of ethnic minority households in the total number of households living stably in the community of 15% or more.

Tu sửa, nâng cấp đường giao thông vào Trung tâm xã Mường Lống, huyện Kỳ Sơn. Ảnh: Nguyễn Hải
Repairing and upgrading the traffic road to the center of Muong Long commune (Ky Son). Photo: Nguyen Hai

In addition to the above criteria, the Prime Minister's Decision also clearly stipulates that communes in Region III in ethnic minority and mountainous areas must be unrecognized communes.new rural standardsand has 1 of 2 criteria: having a poverty rate of 20% or more (except for communes in the Mekong Delta region with a poverty rate of 15% or more or having more than 150 poor households of ethnic minorities)...

Đường giao thông vào mùa mưa ngay tại bản Trung tâm xã Liên Hợp, Quỳ Hợp. Ảnh: Nguyễn Hải
Traffic during the rainy season right at the central village of Lien Hop commune (Quy Hop). Photo: Nguyen Hai

Based on this classification, the Government will issue a Decree detailing support policies for each commune and village to deploy and allocate investment resources for economic development, hunger eradication, and poverty reduction.sustainable poverty reductionperiod 2021-2025./.

Nguyen Hai