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On the morning of October 29, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired a nationwide online conference with ministries, branches and localities on the implementation and disbursement of ODA and concessional loan programs and projects from abroad.
There are still 41 billion VND of ODA awaiting disbursement.
In a report at the conference, Planning and Investment Minister Nguyen Chi Dung said that the amount of foreign investment in 2020 allocated by the prime minister is around 60 billion VND, of which around 21.516 billion of VND are allocated to ministries and branches, localities over 38.484 billion dong.
However, so far only 18,089 million dong have been disbursed (the town has disbursed 12,256 million dong), 30.1% of the allocated plan. Therefore, close to 41 billion VND of ODA capital has not been disbursed, equivalent to almost 70% of the plan.
Mr. Dung said that one of the reasons for the aforementioned delay is because the adjustment process often has to consult with many agencies before being submitted to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision. In this, many organs slow down very slowly. In many cases, it takes 2-3 months to get feedback from agencies, even with bilateral donors like Japan, Korea, Germany … often they last, some cases more than three years.
Another reason, according to Mr. Dung, is that most ODA-funded project activities are heavily affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, from the importation of machinery and equipment to the transfer of experts and personnel. public, foreign contractor, supervisory consultant …
In addition, there are many projects due to improper investment preparation, application of rapidly changing technologies, leading to the need to redesign, increase costs, extend project implementation time, delay delay. Bank …
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc spoke at the October 29 morning meeting. Photo: Chinhphu.vn
Immediately stop stagnation, fear of responsibility.
In concluding the conference, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that ODA is an important resource for the development of the country, because the country lacks development capital. Therefore, each ministry and branch must actively seek resources for national development, infrastructure development, social culture, traffic …
To promote the capital outlay of ODA in the last two months of the year and next time, the Prime Minister asked the heads of ministries and localities to direct, inspect, urge and drastically manage problems and problems. counter.
“Heads of agencies and units should consider this as a key political task in 2020 to improve morale, attitude and work capacity of staff, especially policy enforcement officials. “- Said the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister also called for an immediate end to stalemate, fear of responsibility, termination of mentality, bureaucracy and harassment. Leaders at all levels need to directly urge and quickly eliminate difficulties, focus on solving existing problems and problems with large investment projects to accelerate disbursement.
“Determined, to change cadres that do not know how to work, do not complete, do not have positive responsibilities or are negative personnel, not for the mission but for the interests of the group in ODA investment” – asked the Prime Minister. .
In particular, the Prime Minister asked to strictly implement the capital transfer in accordance with the Prime Minister’s direction, avoiding the situation of return of the estimated capital of the fund. “Without project works, without improving people’s lives, how can we develop the country? If we can’t, we can change jobs” – said the Prime Minister.
Finally, the Prime Minister reiterated to suggest to the heads of all levels that they pay more attention in the direction. “Not being able to accept the state of having capital, having money that cannot be spent, not being able to develop, only tolerate poverty, difficulties, that is the paradox of our managerial weakness, we must change decisively” – Said the Prime Minister.
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HCMC: About to Borrow 33 Billion Yen to Complete Number 1 Subway At the conference, Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Vice Chairman Vo Van Hoan said the city is implementing nine ODA projects with a total capital of 123 billion VND. For the ODA allocated from the central budget, the city has allocated 5.044 billion VND for six projects, currently only disbursed 30%, and it is expected to be 40.8% by the end of 2020. Regarding the reason for the low ODA capital outlay, Hoan said that around 2.5 billion VND has been arranged for the metro line 1 and that the No. 2 metro project has not been able to disburse any VND due to the problems of exchange rate between JPY and VND. Since then, Mr. Hoan has proposed to the Government to order the MPI to soon determine the value of the allocated ODA from the budget in VND for the metro project No. 1 and the metro No. 2. In case the disbursement this year, the government allowed transfers and disbursements in early 2021. Also related to the No. 1 subway project, Hoan said the city signed three loan agreements with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) with a total capital of more than 155 billion yen. The city is cooperating with JICA to sign a fourth loan agreement, also the latest loan, estimated at 33 billion yen. Therefore, Mr. Hoan proposed to the Prime Minister to direct the Ministries of Finance, Planning and Investment, Justice and Foreign Relations … to support the city to promote and work with the Japanese side to complete the paperwork and complete the signing of this loan. before June 30, 2021 to ensure sufficient capital for the disbursement. |
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