Thai Nguyen (VNA) – The northernprovince of Thai Nguyen will splash out 5.1 trillion VND (224.7 million USD) onits sustainable poverty reduction programme.
Of the total amount, 1.5 trillion VND (66 million USD) will come from Statebudget while the remainder will be mobilised from provincial budget and otherlegal financial resources.
The province is targeting to reduce the number of poor households by 2 percentper year by 2020. Meanwhile, the proportion of impoverished households inspecially disadvantaged communes must be slashed by 3.5-5 percent per year.
Under the programme, the locality is also striving to have all of its poor andnear poor receive vocational training and get access to healthcare insurance.In addition, all of the deprived families must have accommodations and 95percent of the destitute people have hygiene water.
According to Trinh Viet Hung, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’sCommittee, the programme is synchronised with a line-up of multidimensionalmeasures which help the poor access to basic services.
Those include providing vocational training in companion with job creation toensure 80 percent of the trainees have jobs and facilitating conditions forlabourers to work in local industrial parks, craft villages or in foreign countries,he said.
The province pays due attention to implementing preferential credit schemes andbuilding practical models to encourage agriculture, forestry and fishery.Besides, it will allocate financial resources to carry out at least fivesustainable poverty reduction programmes every year, develop essentialinfrastructure in difficulty-ridden communes and stabilise production invillages inhabited by ethnic minority groups.
According to recent evaluation from the provincial People’s Committee, thelocality has 42,000 poor households, accounting for 13.4 percent of total households,and over 28,000 near poor families, making up of 9 percent of total households.
During 2011-2016, some 6 trillion VND (264.4 million USD) was mobilised forpoverty alleviation programmes and projects, helping 36,000 families escapefrom poverty and drop poverty rate by 2.7 percent per year.
However, the programme still has some limitations, including accommodationsupport failing to meet set plan, poor households shifting to near poorhouseholds and disparity between number of poor households in urban areas andmountainous districts.-VNA
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