The Prime Minister directed to allocate 2,524 billion for 15 localities to overcome the consequences of storm No. 10 Bualoi.

Many houses in Nghe An were heavily flooded after storm No. 10.

On October 2, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Decision No. 2171 to provide support from the central budget reserve in 2025 for a number of localities to overcome the consequences of storm No. 10 and other natural disasters from the beginning of 2025.

Specifically, 2,524 billion VND will be supported from the central budget reserve in 2025 for 15 localities to support people's lives, repair dikes, irrigation reservoirs, natural disaster prevention works, essential infrastructure, and stabilize residents in urgent disaster areas affected by storm No. 10 and other natural disasters from the beginning of 2025.

Specifically: Tuyen Quang 200 billion VND, Cao Bang 195 billion VND, Lang Son 20 billion VND, Lao Cai 200 billion VND, Thai Nguyen 20 billion VND, Phu Tho 20 billion VND, Son La 200 billion VND, Lai Chau 24 billion VND, Dien Bien 90 billion VND, Ninh Binh 20 billion VND, Thanh Hoa 200 billion VND, Nghe An 500 billion VND, Ha Tinh 500 billion VND, Quang Tri 200 billion VND, Hue 135 billion VND.

The Ministry of Finance and the People's Committees of the provinces are fully responsible to the Prime Minister, inspection, examination and auditing agencies and relevant agencies for the content, data of reports, subjects, conditions for using the central budget reserve and proposals, recommendations, ensuring proper implementation of legal provisions on natural disaster prevention and control, the State budget, public investment and relevant legal provisions.

The Prime Minister requested that localities be responsible for managing, using, and settling funds supported by the central budget for the correct purposes, scope, subjects, and regulations of the law, to avoid loss, waste, negativity, or group interests.

Localities must report the results of funding allocation and implementation to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and the Ministry of Finance no later than 30 days from the date of the decision on funding support.

The Prime Minister noted that localities must report in detail the damage caused by natural disasters in 2025, the use of local resources (local budget reserves, financial reserve funds and other legal financial sources), the central budget support, and the amount of funding exceeding the local budget's capacity to request support from the central budget. This content must be sent to the Ministry of Finance before October 30 for synthesis and reporting to the Prime Minister for handling of the overall funding according to regulations.

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Finance to preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and relevant agencies to synthesize reports from localities and report to the Prime Minister on the overall budget handling plan in accordance with the provisions of law.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment shall preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and relevant agencies to organize inspections, supervision, and guidance on the use of the central budget reserve fund in 2025 to support localities, to prevent loss, waste, and negativity; in case of detecting capital allocation and use not in accordance with the prescribed scope and subjects, report to competent authorities to recover to the central budget and handle according to regulations.

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