Correcting limitations in planning and allocating public investment plans
(Baonghean.vn) - This is one of many contents that the People's Committee of Nghe An province has just assigned the Department of Planning and Investment to preside over and coordinate with relevant agencies and units to implement, in order to implement the recommendations of the State Audit on the 2021 State budget settlement report.
On September 13, 2023, Nghe An Provincial People's Committee issued Document No. 7668/UBND-KT on rectifying the work of preparing and allocating annual public investment plans using state budget capital, in order to implement the direction of the Ministry of Planning and Investment in Official Dispatch No. 7276/BKHĐT-TH dated September 5, 2023 on implementing the recommendations of the State Audit on the 2021 State Budget Settlement Report.
Important contents that the Government and the Ministry of Planning and Investment require agencies, units and localities to implement include:
Seriously review and rectify the limitations in the work of making and allocating the 2021 state budget capital plan, focusing on some basic contents such as: Registration of public investment capital plan needs in 2021 is not accurate, not close to the implementation capacity, leading to no allocation, detailed assignment of the plan or late allocation, incorrect allocation to the prescribed subjects, allocation to projects that have expired without permission from competent authorities.
The capital plan was adjusted many times, even after November 15, 2021; disbursement was slow, not disbursing all the assigned plan. The detailed allocation for tasks and projects that have not completed investment procedures is not in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Public Investment.
In addition, the content of not synthesizing and accurately reporting the advance balance data under the responsibility of the Central budget has led to many advance projects not being arranged in the Capital Plan for recovery; not sending a summary report on the situation and data of the Capital Plan from the revenue source left for investment but not yet included in the 2021 State budget balance to the Ministry of Planning and Investment to synthesize and report to the Government according to regulations, which also needs to be promptly corrected, inspected and promptly remedied.
In addition, sectors and localities continue to tighten discipline and order, strictly implement legal regulations in the management and use of public investment capital from the State budget to avoid repeating the shortcomings and limitations mentioned in Point 1 above in the following years.
At the same time, deploy solutions to promote disbursement of public investment capital according to the direction of the Government and the Prime Minister in Resolutions, regular Government meetings, Directive No. 08/CT-TTg dated March 23, 2023 on key tasks and solutions to promote allocation and disbursement of public investment capital, 03 National Target Programs in 2023, implementing the Socio-Economic Recovery and Development Program, Official Dispatch No. 749/CD-TTg dated August 16, 2023 on accelerating the disbursement progress of public investment capital in the last months of 2023, striving to disburse over 95% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister.
For Nghe An, from the beginning of 2023, in order to ensure the target of disbursing public investment capital of over 95%, from the beginning of the year, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee have issued many documents directing, urging, and implementing many measures to support and control agencies, units, and localities to disburse public investment capital with the highest progress and efficiency. In particular, the Provincial People's Committee has established working groups to directly work with localities and support units, remove obstacles, and speed up disbursement progress. The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested units and localities to periodically report on the progress and results of public investment disbursement every 10 days, and resolutely handle cases of slow progress.