“No one is born and raised wanting to be poor”

On the afternoon of October 30, at the discussion session in the hall on the implementation of the National Assembly's Resolutions on National Target Programs, Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung explained and clarified a number of contents raised by National Assembly deputies.

Minister Dao Ngoc Dung highly appreciated the monitoring results of the Monitoring Team, which objectively and comprehensively assessed the implementation process of the 3 National Target Programs. The Minister affirmed that the monitoring process had created fundamental changes in the awareness and actions of all levels and sectors.

Regarding the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction, Minister Dao Ngoc Dung said that, unlike the previous term, this term requires more work and is more difficult because it not only reduces poverty in terms of income but also requires multidimensional poverty reduction, which is higher and more comprehensive.

In recent times, in addition to determination, the implementation of the Program has encountered many difficulties and challenges, including objective causes from the Covid-19 pandemic, natural disasters, floods, storms, and landslides that have greatly affected the implementation of the Program.

“However, with great efforts from the entire political system, especially localities, the rise of poor and near-poor households has achieved remarkable results,” said Minister Dung.

Dialogue - Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs: — Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung explained at the discussion session on the afternoon of October 30 (Photo: Quochoi.vn).

Minister Dao Ngoc Dung also analyzed the difficulties in the implementation of the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction in particular and the 3 National Target Programs in general.

In particular, regarding the National Target Program for Sustainable Poverty Reduction, the Minister affirmed that "no one is born and grows up wanting to be poor and no one does not want to escape poverty".

“Recently, hundreds of poor households have voluntarily written applications to escape poverty and proactively given their support benefits to others and wanted to proactively strive to escape poverty. This is something that should be commended,” Minister Dao Ngoc Dung shared.

For poor households that are unable to work and cannot escape poverty, the Minister said that the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs is coordinating with the Ministry of Finance to advise the Government on criteria so that these people can have a life better than or no worse than that of poor households.

Regarding housing support, Minister Dao Ngoc Dung said that, in the spirit of Decision 90 and Resolution 24 of the National Assembly, we strive to eliminate about 100,000 dilapidated apartments of poor households in 74 poor districts during this term.

Third issue, through practical implementation, the Minister said that the implementation of the New Rural Development and Sustainable Poverty Reduction Program is progressing relatively well.

However, the Socio-Economic Development Program for Ethnic Minorities in Mountainous Areas is even more difficult, but all three of these programs are having to issue too many documents, even though they do not want to, they still have to issue them to comply with legal regulations.

Furthermore, the decentralization and delegation of authority are not clear, leading to the situation of "the lower level waits for the higher level, the higher level tells the lower level to do it but the lower level is afraid". In addition, the allocation of small and fragmented projects is too much, along with the slow and dribbling of capital...

Minister Dao Ngoc Dung said that the Government has proposed 7 specific policy mechanisms to the National Assembly, but according to the Minister, in the immediate future, in the Resolution on supervision, the National Assembly should allow a pilot program to fully empower the district level to proactively decide to adjust the capital structure from programs and between programs, in which each province chooses 1 or 2 districts to pilot .

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