Prevent waste and movement from “shelved” projects

Movement from projects "shelved" for many years

Fighting waste must become a task that needs to be done from the central to local levels, and the spread of this spirit has begun to change in many localities, right at projects that have long been "stalling" or "put on hold".

In Hanoi, Phung Khoang Park, a project notorious for its delays, was rushed to completion and temporarily handed over before the Lunar New Year to be used as a fireworks display site to welcome the new year. The completion of construction is expected to soon enter the final stages.

In Ho Chi Minh City, metro line 1, another famous "time-buying" project, was also launched in time to serve the people here in the last days of 2024.

These are just two of many projects that are behind schedule, causing construction costs to increase, causing huge waste while local people do not enjoy the benefits of these projects.

Such waste has long been embodied in countless official dispatches and reports, and has been calmly “standing indifferently with time”, calmly existing without any satisfactory explanation or decisive responsibility from any organization or individual. Worse still, the waste that comes with resources lying idle and projects is right in front of the eyes of the people, making it impossible not to ask the question: Is living with waste a daily routine!?

To the point that during the group discussion session at the recent National Assembly session, General Secretary To Lam had to indignantly mention the two second-stage projects of Bach Mai and Viet Duc hospitals in Ha Nam province as a “typical” example of the waste of public resources. According to the General Secretary, if these two projects were invested by the private sector, they would have been put into operation long ago.

Spreading the spirit of the 500kV line to "wake up" "shelved" projects

The 500kV line 3 project being constructed and completed in 2024 is something that few people think of if placed in the context of the long-standing reality of many key national and local projects.

The completion of the 500kV line 3 circuit is a lesson in drastic action to avoid wasting resources. Illustrative photo.

But the impossible has become possible with the decisive participation of the Central and local leaders, the joint action for the benefit of the country and the grassroots. Here, the spirit of only discussing and not retreating has overcome the inertia in thinking and inherent habits in action to bring about a style of management, handling, and removing bottlenecks so that there is no room for waste to exist.

The good news is that after the command of General Secretary To Lam from the article “Fighting waste”, in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and many other localities, projects that were behind schedule due to countless reasons have begun to awaken, promising a new life that is beneficial to the economy, the community and the people.

The logic here is that a large, complex project like the 500kV line could be completed in a record time, but other projects accept a prolonged construction period and slow implementation due to procedures and mechanisms arising during the operation and management process.

We have witnessed many projects with large investment capital, even up to thousands of billions of VND, which had been dormant, revived and played a proper, clear, and positive role in socio-economic development thanks to the focus and drastic removal of mechanisms. One such project is Thai Binh 2 Thermal Power Plant, a name that for a long time evoked associations with stagnation, deadlock, and difficulties, the most difficult of which were legal issues.

With the utmost effort and determination, the progress of completing the factory's items finally overcame the "mountain" of difficulties in capital and mechanism to bring electricity from the factory to the national grid with determination and hope.

Reflecting on the new life of such projects, it suddenly suggests that, it turns out, there has never been a closer relationship between fighting waste in construction projects in particular, resources in general, and removing institutional bottlenecks - the bottleneck of bottlenecks - than now. That can be considered a command of life, of development. Any drastic action to fight waste right now is absolutely necessary and cannot be otherwise.

General Secretary To Lam emphasized in the article "Fighting waste" the solution to build a culture of thrift and fight waste in agencies and organizations; encourage people to increase thrift practice, fight waste, create a habit of valuing state assets, people's efforts, collective contributions and the efforts of each individual.

Source: https://congthuong.vn/chong-lang-phi-va-chuyen-dong-tu-nhung-cong-trinh-dap-chieu-370225.html