Many localities of Nghe An proposed solutions to speed up disbursement of capital for national target programs.
Identifying the causes of difficulties and obstacles in the implementation of the medium-term public investment plan for the 2021-2025 period, many localities have made specific recommendations and proposals to increase the disbursement rate, especially sources of national target programs.
The medium-term public investment plan for the 2021-2025 period is implemented on the basis of inheriting the achieved results and learning from the shortcomings and limitations of the previous period. Sectors and levels have high consensus and unity on the guiding ideology of concentrated public investment with focus and key points, overcoming the situation of dispersion.
However, the implementation of the Medium-Term Public Investment Plan for the 2021-2025 period still faces many difficulties and challenges, such as: the Covid-19 pandemic has had a severe impact; the world situation has many rapid, complex and unpredictable changes. Domestically, inflationary pressure is high, prices of gasoline, oil, raw materials and input materials fluctuate strongly. Natural disasters and floods with complicated developments have greatly affected public investment activities, including national target programs.
.jpg)
To speed up the progress and disbursement rate of public investment in national target programs, localities in Nghe An have made recommendations and proposals to superior departments and branches to remove difficulties and obstacles encountered in the process of disbursement and implementation of projects. Mr. Lo Thanh Nhat - Vice Chairman of Tuong Duong District People's Committee said that the implementation of the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021-2025 in Tuong Duong district ensures progress, disbursement by December 31, 2023 reaches 100% of the capital plan.
However, there are still problems and difficulties. For example, the total investment estimate for projects is still limited, the total budget has not been accurately estimated, many projects have had to adjust the total investment due to price fluctuations, changes in standards... There are still problems with the provisions of the law, for example, problems with the content of environmental impact assessment, lack of land for filling, conversion of forest land takes a long time...
Therefore, to build an accurate medium-term investment plan and ensure sufficient capital for implementation, it is necessary to clearly identify the needs, anticipate future price increases, and increase the reserve limit. To resolve the problems of the law, it is necessary to propose law adjustments and related regulations in the direction of increasing decentralization to localities and facilities, especially small-scale projects in a district.
The leaders of Tuong Duong district also proposed that the Central Government increase investment support for the districts in the Western part of Nghe An, the border districts, especially the districts with many hydropower projects, with the aim of improving the quality of people's lives, contributing to socio-economic development, ensuring security and national defense. Consider proposing to adjust related regulations, such as in the laws: Law on Environmental Protection, Law on Minerals in the direction of increasing decentralization to localities, establishments, and specific regulations for each type of project, corresponding to the appropriate total project investment level.
Regarding Thanh Chuong district, regarding the limitations that need to be overcome to speed up the disbursement of capital for national target programs, the leader of the district People's Committee said that the disbursement of public investment capital for national target programs from the central budget in new rural construction and socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas is still facing "difficulties" when the situation of investors not proactively implementing has not been completely resolved.
The reason is that the capital source for district budget support and commune budget to invest in construction of works is from the source of land use rights, but because the land use rights auction market has stagnated in both quantity and land price, investors do not have capital. In addition, when proposing investment policies to build works, investors have not carefully checked the ability to ensure counterpart capital, especially for works that are mainly the counterpart part of the local budget.
Therefore, Thanh Chuong district proposed solutions, such as: Urging investors to review their ability to secure capital to implement the remaining projects. For projects under the National Target Program on New Rural Development and the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the period 2021-2025 that have not been implemented, the Provincial People's Committee is requested to consider and decide to submit to the Provincial People's Council to allocate the remaining public investment capital for the period 2021-2025 for investors to pay for completed volume, and implement projects whose technical economic reports have not been approved.
For projects invested by the District People's Committee from the provincial budget with counterpart funds from the district budget: Because the district budget's counterpart funds for investment in construction of projects mainly come from the land use rights grant source, but because the land use rights auction market has stagnated in both quantity and land price, it is not possible to ensure counterpart funds for investment in construction of works. Therefore, it is proposed to include it in the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2026-2030.
The difficulty in finding counterpart funds to implement public investment projects is not only encountered by Tuong Duong and Thanh Chuong localities, but is a common situation in localities in the province, especially in highland and mountainous districts. The main reason is that the district has difficulty in finding counterpart funds when the revenue from granting land use rights and land auctions is limited and ineffective.
Regarding the local feedback, the Provincial People's Council and the Provincial People's Committee of Nghe An have conducted monitoring, reception and synthesis to submit to the levels and branches, and included in the work content according to their authority to gradually resolve. In the coming time, the National Assembly is expected to pass the amendments to the 2019 Law on Public Investment, so the Provincial People's Council and the Provincial People's Committee also recommended that the Provincial National Assembly Delegation pay attention to and synthesize the difficulties in the practical implementation of the Law on Public Investment to make recommendations to the National Assembly during the process of discussing and passing the draft Law.