Disbursement for new-style rural area development on track
More than 9.66 trillion VND (308.46 million USD) from the central budget has been allocated to localities this year to implement the 2021-2025 national target programme on new-style rural area development.
A road in Hoa Dong commune, Tay Hoa district, Phu Yen province. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – More than 9.66 trillion VND (308.46 million USD) from the central budget has been allocated to localities this year to implement the 2021-2025 national target programme on new-style rural area development.
The Ministry of Finance reported that most of the target localities have completed their disbursement, and that it is working on necessary procedures to seek the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee’s approval of the detailed allocation of the 369.56 billion VND in recurrent expenditure for 2024 to ministries and centrally-run agencies.
Statistics show that the total central budget earmarked during the 2021–2024 period stands at 32.265 trillion VND, meeting 77.4% of the funding target set for 2021–2025.
As of the end of June, over 2.8 quadrillion VND had been mobilised nationwide in support of the programme, with around 297.45 trillion VND soured directly from the state budget.
However, the Government said localities with many disadvantaged communes and districts like Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Son La, Dien Bien, and Kon Tum find it hard to balance or allocate sufficient local budget funds or mobilise other resources to implement the programme.
Additionally, some others have yet to take proactive steps in investment preparation, and their annual planning yet to align with the reality, leading to multiple adjustments during the implementation, thus hindering the disbursement work.
Under the programme, at least 80% of communes nationwide are expected to be recognised as new-style rural areas by 2025, around 40% of them projected to win the advanced new-style rural area title, and 10% exemplary new-style rural areas.
Notably, the average income of rural residents will increase by at least 1.5-fold compared with 2020.
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Hanoi ranks third nationwide in terms of new-style rural area building, said Ngo Van Ngon, deputy head of the capital's coordinating office for new-style countryside development
The northern province of Bac Giang expects to have 154 communes recognised as new-style rural areas by the end of this year, making up 84.6% of the total number, and up 30 communes from 2020.
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