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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung confirmed that the Government is to adopt resolutions to intensify efforts to reduce the number of poor households and to step up the fight against corruption.
He made this confirmation at a meeting with government ministers in Hanoi on November 18, in which the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) presented a plan outlining mechanisms, policies and supportive solutions for poverty-stricken districts until 2015 with further orientations until 2020.
According to the MoLISA, there are 61 districts in 20 provinces possessing more than 50% of households suffering from poverty while the national rate is 18 %. Of those districts, with a total of approximately 480,000 households, 16 districts have more than 70 % of households living in poverty.
The plan aims to reduce the number of poor households in those districts to less than 40%, in line with current standards, by 2010.
The Government’s Chief Inspector, Tran Van Truyen introduced a draft national strategy on the prevention and control of corruption until 2020, with the aim of creating a clean, strong state apparatus and a contingent of incorruptible civil servants.
The strategy maps out five groups of solutions to increase transparency in public works, monitor the exercise of the State’s power, complete an economic management mechanism for a just and transparent business environment, increasing the efficiency of inspections, surveillance, auditing, investigations, prosecutions, and trial work, and raising public awareness across the board of the fight against corruption.
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