(HBO) – The People’s Committee of Hoa Binh province has reviewed the implementation of the national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction for the 2016-2020 period at a recent conference.
Bui Van Khanh, Vice
Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial
People’s Committee, presents certificates of merit to collectives that made
outstanding achievements in an emulation movement aiming to support the poor
over the past five years.
During
the reviewed period, Hoa Binh has promptly and effectively rolled out policies
on social welfare, poverty reduction, vocational training and job generation.
The
emulation movement that calls for joint efforts in supporting the poor so that
no one is left behind has reaped significant achievements, helping to reduce
the province’s poverty rate from 24.38 percent to only 11.36 percent in the
five years. The rate is predicted to stay at 8.56 percent at the end of this
year.
At
the end of 2019, one district, six communes and 73 villages escaped from especially
difficult circumstances. However,
resources have remained limited given the huge demand for construction of
communes, especially disadvantaged localities.
Other
difficulties hindering the province’s efforts in poverty reduction include
limited investment in agriculture, and the inefficient coordination between
departments, agencies and localities in implementing programmes, projects and
policies towards ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas.
In
2017, the province was hard hit by floods, leading to an increasing number of
poor households, including cases of relapse.
During
the 2021-2025 period, 10 trillion VND is expected to be injected into the
programme, withtrillion VND coming from the central budget and 2 trillion
VND from the local budget.
In
his remarks, Bui Van Khanh, Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee
and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, highlighted the
responsibility of leaders of agencies in fixing limitations over the past five
years, and stressed the need to step up the communication work in order to
raise public awareness of poverty reduction, improve the capacity of officials
involved in the work, and speed up the disbursement of projects./.
In recent years, Mai Ha commune in Mai Chau district has been making efforts to restructure its crops and livestock to improve production efficiency, enhance the quality of life, and increase income for local residents. Notably, the cultivation of watermelon in line with Vietnamese Goods Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) standards has helped local people escape poverty.
Hoa Binh province scored 43.5493 points in the 2023 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), ranking 20th out of the 63 provinces and cities nationwide, up 23 places compared to the 2022 list. The results show people's satisfaction with the effectiveness of implementing State policies and laws, local governance, and providing public services by authorities at all levels in the province.
With the motto of "polite, dedicated, professional, and lawful,” over the years, Phu Cuong commune in Tan Lac district has gradually improved the quality of processing administrative procedures, winning high satisfaction from local people and businesses.
Stretching over 300 meters, valued at hundreds of million dong and built to the new-style rural standards, a concrete road in De hamlet, Bac Phong commune, Cao Phong district, was completed by the end of 2023 thanks to the collective contributions of armed forces at provincial and district levels coupled with the active participation of military units stationed throughout the district.
Over the years, the People’s Committee of Lac Thuy district has issued many plans and programmes to speed up the administrative reform, aiming to better serve local people and businesses.
Kim Boi district is drafting 23 planning projects which are expected to help boost the local socio-economic development, attract investors, and mobilise resources for development, said Vice chairman of the district People’s Committee Tran Tuan Son.
They include the one on Bo urban area development until 2045, 20 zoning, and 12 on rural residential areas in communes.