Binh Dinh – has seen the existence in poverty reduction work
“A province with economic scale ranked 24/63 and conditions like Binh Dinh. Why is the poverty rate always higher, compared to the national average?”, reporter Dan Viet newspaper permanently residing in Binh Dinh, asked questions to the provincial leaders, at the press conference and spring meeting, first quarter of 2024.
Responding to the above issue, Mr. Lam Hai Giang – Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh Provincial People’s Committee said that with the scale of the economy ranked 24/63 provinces and cities, the rate of poor households is higher than the national average. . This is a problem that the leaders of Binh Dinh province have seen in the work of poverty reduction.
According to Mr. Giang, there are many reasons, including objective and subjective. Communication issues, awareness of poverty reduction work and how to implement it, resources have been invested but are not effective.
Binh Dinh has just had the results of an investigation and survey on poor, near-poor and households with an average living standard, this is an important basis for planning poverty reduction work.
“The province has assigned departments and branches to develop specific plans and solutions, affecting each household. 3 National target programs, disbursement in 2022 is not good because of procedural difficulties, in 2023 it has been been resolved and this year, we expect good disbursement to further reduce the poverty rate,” Mr. Giang said.
According to Mr. Lam Hai Giang, in the coming time, we will continue to mobilize the participation of the entire political system, enhancing the importance of communication work and the responsibility of grassroots officials.
How to help poor households have confidence and motivation to escape poverty. Otherwise, it will be difficult to “reduce poverty and support policies will no longer exist”.
Mr. Lam Hai Giang – Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh Provincial People’s Committee. Photo: Du Tuan.
“When a household escapes poverty, it must have a stable period of time to develop. The policy mechanism must continue to be implemented for a certain period of time. The Provincial People’s Committee is considering this. I think this is the way do it effectively,” Mr. Giang said.
Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh Provincial People’s Committee said that Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Le Kim Toan has just chaired a conference with leaders of departments and localities to provide guidance on poverty reduction work.
Mr. Le Kim Toan emphasized that, in the Resolution of the 20th Party Congress, by 2025, “the poverty rate of Binh Dinh is lower than the average poverty rate of the whole country”.
Currently, the poverty rate according to multidimensional standards in Binh Dinh is 3.13%, higher than the national average of 2.93%.
“We must strive to influence each specific household, according to each criterion and clearly define the responsibilities of state agencies, households, roadmaps, resources… to achieve the proposed results”, Mr. Toan said.
Binh Dinh leads the country in administrative reform
According to Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh Provincial People’s Committee Lam Hai Giang, in 2023, Binh Dinh has completed and exceeded 18/19 major targets on socio-economic development.
Of which, gross local product (GRDP) increased by 7.61%, exceeding the plan assigned by the Provincial People’s Council (7-7.5%) and ranked 17/63 localities in the country, 6/14 localities. North Central region and Central coastal region.
In particular, the work of building and managing a team of cadres, civil servants, and public employees has had many innovations in the direction of decentralization, decentralization, and simplification of administrative procedures. Continue to carry out organizational arrangements within departments, branches and branches, and arrange public service units; management and use of payroll; Implement staff streamlining.
During the year, the People’s Committee of Binh Dinh province organized 24 training and refresher classes for 1,702/1,737 commune-level officials and civil servants (reaching 97.98% of the total number of summoned officials and civil servants).
The People’s Committee of Binh Dinh province also strengthens the inspection of administrative reform and implementation of public duties at agencies and units, thereby promptly correcting and handling responsibilities for violating individuals and organizations.
Mr. Le Kim Toan – Permanent Deputy Secretary of Binh Dinh Provincial Party Committee. Photo: Du Tuan.
“In 2023, the index of serving people and businesses in handling administrative procedures of the province will rank 1/63 provinces and cities in the country, the only locality in the excellent group because it has The score reached over 90. The level of satisfaction of people and businesses with the handling of administrative procedures in the province reached 98.3%,” Mr. Giang said.
Speaking at the meeting, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Le Kim Toan affirmed that in 2023, the Party Committee, government and people of the entire province have made efforts and united to strive to achieve many positive results and many indicators. The number has approached the target for the entire term 2020 – 2025.
In that process, there was the companionship of press agencies and journalists in the area.
According to Mr. Le Kim Toan, leaders of Binh Dinh province are very demanding. From information reflected in the press, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and leaders of the Provincial People’s Committee directed clarification and feedback to press agencies.
The leaders of the Binh Dinh Provincial Party Committee sent their thanks to the press agencies for frankly pointing out the shortcomings, limitations, and even shortcomings of agencies, units, and localities.
And, expressing the hope that press agencies in the province and journalists will continue to accompany the province in 2024 – the pivotal year to implement the Resolutions of the 2020 – 2025 term.