Ministers and Provincial Chairmen must report on stuck and pending projects before April 11.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Official Dispatch No. 26 requesting ministries, branches and localities to urgently review and report investment projects with difficulties, obstacles and long-term backlogs on the National Public Investment System.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. (Photo: VGP)

The telegram stated that recently, the Prime Minister has issued many documents requesting ministries, branches and localities to focus on reviewing projects with difficulties, obstacles and long-term backlogs. At the same time, the Prime Minister directed to urgently propose solutions to thoroughly handle them, in order to speed up the implementation of projects, contributing to promoting socio-economic development and avoiding waste of assets and resources of the State, enterprises, people and society.

The Prime Minister has established a Steering Committee to review and remove difficulties and obstacles related to projects (Steering Committee) with Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh as Head of the Steering Committee.

On March 30, chairing a meeting of the Steering Committee on reviewing and removing difficulties and obstacles related to projects, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Finance to build a database system, guide ministries, central and local agencies to unify data entry, and provide information on investment projects with difficulties, obstacles, and long-term backlogs.

Therefore, in order to promptly resolve difficulties and obstacles for long-standing projects, the Prime Minister requested Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies, and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to continue reviewing and completing data entry of investment projects facing difficulties before March 25 (for projects that have been reported to the Steering Committee).

At the same time, continue to review and update projects that are found to have problems and difficulties that need to be proposed solutions and reported to competent authorities for consideration and resolution.

Reviewing and updating information and adding projects, proposing solutions to implement on the database system of stuck and difficult projects via the link: " dautucong.mpi.gov.vn ", information field " Steering Committee 1568 ", section " Ministries, Central Agencies, and Provincial People's Committees enter information ". Deadline for completion is April 10.

After this period, the database system will not receive any more information. Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies, and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities who do not direct the updating of additional projects will be considered to have no more projects with problems or difficulties that need to be reported to competent authorities for resolution.

Leaders of ministries, branches and localities must be responsible before the Government, the Prime Minister and the law for not fully reporting and proposing as required by the Prime Minister.

In the dispatch, the Prime Minister assigned Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh to direct ministries, agencies and localities to perform assigned tasks, handle and resolve arising issues within their authority, and report to the Prime Minister on issues beyond their authority.

According to the Ministry of Finance, as of March 25, a total of 1,533 projects reported by agencies and localities were facing difficulties and problems, including 338 public investment projects, 1,126 non-budgetary investment projects and 69 PPP projects. In addition, the Ministry of Finance received documents from enterprises reflecting on 12 projects facing difficulties and problems.

The Ministry of Finance has preliminarily classified difficulties and obstacles into 17 related groups of issues such as: handling public assets; management, use, and allocation of public investment capital; changing land use purposes; stopping, revoking, and terminating project activities... At the same time, classify projects according to the authority to handle difficulties and obstacles of: the National Assembly, the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries, branches, and localities.

For the two projects of Bach Mai Hospital and Viet Duc Hospital, Facility 2, the Government has issued Resolution No. 34; the Government leaders have agreed to the policy of allocating additional budget from the increased revenue in 2024 to complete the two projects in 2025, soon putting them into service for the people.

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