Increase local responsibility and be more proactive in disbursing capital for national target programs.

+ Dear National Assembly delegate, could you please tell us your opinion on the draft Resolution on some specific mechanisms and policies to implement national target programs?

National Assembly Deputy Sung A Lenh: Based on the study of the draft Resolution that the Government submitted to the National Assembly at this Session, I believe that the issuance of a National Assembly Resolution on a number of specific mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties and obstacles, and speed up the implementation of national target programs is very necessary.

Because, from the practical implementation of the national target program, up to now there have been many difficulties, limitations and shortcomings; some contents, sub-projects and component projects have been implemented very slowly such as: Support for residential land, housing, production land, population arrangement; support for production development; business start-up, support for forest contracting and protection, training, coaching...

Therefore, in order to thoroughly remove difficulties and obstacles, continue to create favorable conditions for localities to speed up the implementation progress and disbursement of capital for national target programs in the coming time, it is extremely necessary to develop and implement a Resolution on a number of specific mechanisms and policies to implement national target programs.

Increasing local responsibility and being more proactive in allocating funding for national target programs, Figure 1 — National Assembly Delegate Sung A Lenh.

+ In the draft Resolution submitted to the National Assembly, the Government proposed 8 specific policy solutions beyond the Government's authority to thoroughly remove difficulties and obstacles, and continue to create favorable conditions for localities to accelerate the implementation and disbursement of capital for national target programs in the coming time. What do you think about these policies?

National Assembly Deputy Sung A Lenh: Regarding the adjustment of the state budget estimate and annual capital plan of the national target program, I propose to add the following content: "The deadline for adjusting the budget estimate for implementing the national target programs is before December 31 every year". Because Clause 3, Article 53 of the State Budget Law on the deadline for adjusting the budget estimates assigned to budget-using units stipulates: The deadline for adjusting the budget estimates assigned to budget-using units is completed before November 15 of the current year. However, in reality, it is not until December that the official volume completed in the year can be specifically determined to adjust the capital plan and budget estimates between projects and activities accordingly.

Regarding the management and use of assets formed from production development support projects (in Clause 5, Article 4), I support option 1: “a) Implement support policies according to production development support projects, not applying regulations on public asset management to assets with state budget support capital of less than 500 million VND, or assets supporting the community participating in production development projects. The determination of each specific type of asset for each specific subject is decided by the competent authority approving the project when approving the production development support project.

Increasing local responsibility and being more proactive in allocating funding for national target programs, Figure 2 — National Assembly session on the afternoon of January 16, 2024.

I think this plan inherits the experience in managing and organizing the implementation of community projects from previous programs, especially Program 135. However, there needs to be acceptance and specific management regulations before handing over to the community, taking the lead in joint management.

In my opinion, at point b, the Government needs to study that in particularly difficult areas, assets with a value of 500 million VND or more must have a support policy of 20% of the asset value from the state budget, the remaining asset value is the capital of the joint venture host or enjoys preferential credit loans from the Social Policy Bank. To suit the practical situation in the locality, this policy can be assigned to the People's Committees of the provinces to regulate for each specific case.

Regarding the pilot mechanism of decentralization to the district level in managing and organizing the implementation of national target programs (in Clause 7, Article 4), I support option 2: "The People's Council at the district level is allowed to decide to adjust the plan for allocating public investment capital and regular expenses among national target programs in the medium-term public investment plan, annual capital investment plan, and annual state budget estimates assigned by competent authorities; the structure of state budget capital sources between investment expenditure and regular expenditure of component projects that are no longer eligible for support to focus capital on implementing other component projects under national target programs for the 2021-2025 period".

Increasing local responsibility and being more proactive in allocating funding for national target programs, Figure 3 — There needs to be a policy mechanism to speed up the implementation and disbursement of capital for national target programs. Illustrative photo.

I think that this content is assigned to the district level is reasonable, ensuring thorough decentralization and delegation of power to the district level to be proactive and flexible in operating, managing and implementing national target programs; increasing local responsibility, being more proactive in disbursing capital because the locality is close to reality, grasps difficulties and problems and proactively proposes timely and effective solutions.

+ According to the delegate, what additional issues need to be noted in the draft Resolution?

National Assembly Deputy Sung A Lenh: In addition to the above issues, I propose that the National Assembly study and supplement the permission for localities to adjust unused public capital (due to no more spending content) to carry out other investment contents such as: investing in roads, schools, renovating or constructing works to preserve the architecture of ethnic minorities... in order to use and promote the effectiveness of program capital.

In fact, the allocation of resources from the central government for some contents, sub-projects, and component projects is still unreasonable, such as: the budget allocated for training, coaching, propaganda, inspection, and supervision is too large compared to the needs of the locality. Meanwhile, the need for capital allocated for infrastructure investment is very large, but the central government's allocation is still limited...

+ Sincerely thank the National Assembly delegates!

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