Hanoi: The Government proposed two options to pilot a mechanism to decentralise the management and implementation of national target programmes to district-level administrations at the fifth extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly on January 16.
In the first option, the Government recommended that the pilot mechanism should not be implemented right in the 2024-2025 period. Instead, policies guiding the implementation of national target programmes in the 2026-2030 period will be issued.
The Government said this option ensures caution without affecting State budget plans and estimates for the 2021-2025 period and each year in this period.
In the second option, the pilot mechanism should be applied right in the 2024-2025 period, according to the proposal.
During discussions in groups, many NA deputies chose the second option. One of the supporters of this option, Nguyen Hoang Mai, a representative of Tien Giang province, said that this option will ensure thorough decentralisation to the district-
level administrations, enabling them to work proactively and flexibly in governing, managing and implementing the programmes, paving the way for the building of such programmes for the 2026-2030 period.
Hoang Quoc Khanh, a deputy of Lai Chau province suggested that provincial-level administrations should perform the supervising and inspecting role and leave the authority of implementing the programmes to district-level administrations.
However, some deputies underlined the need to clarify the criteria to select districts for piloting the mechanism, prioritising localities with strong performance in implementing national target programmes in the 2021-2025 period.
The Government’s proposal presented a draft resolution on special mechanisms to implement national target programmes. The draft has six chapters, stipulating eight special mechanisms to remove difficulties and obstacles facing national target programmes and provide favourable conditions for localities to speed up their implementation as well as the
disbursement of capital for these programmes in the future.
Currently, three national target programmes are underway, which are on new-style rural area development, sustainable poverty reduction, and socioeconomic development in mountainous and ethnic minority areas./.
Source: Vietnam News Agency