Prime Minister criticizes 26 ministries, central agencies and 48 localities

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Official Dispatch No. 16 urging ministries, branches and localities to accelerate the allocation and disbursement of public investment capital in 2025. The Official Dispatch emphasized that since the beginning of 2025, the Government and the Prime Minister have issued many documents strongly directing the allocation and disbursement of public investment capital in 2025.

However, the detailed allocation results of the 2025 public investment capital plan as of January 23, 2025 only reached 96.07% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister; the amount of capital that has not been allocated in detail is still quite large (about VND 84,840.5 billion) of 26 ministries, central agencies and 48 localities. The disbursement rate by the end of January 2025 is estimated to reach 1.26% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister (the same period in 2024 was 2.58%).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. (Photo: VGP)

" The Prime Minister severely criticized 26 ministries, central agencies and 48 localities for not fully allocating the 2025 public investment capital plan from the state budget that had been assigned (as of January 23, 2025); requested the above ministries, central agencies and localities to seriously review individual and collective responsibilities for handling according to Party regulations and State laws, " the dispatch emphasized.

The telegram stated that, in order to strive to achieve the highest disbursement target of public investment capital in 2025 (over 95%) of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister requested ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, other central agencies, and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities to promote responsibility, focus on leadership, direction, and implementation more drastically, promptly, and effectively of tasks and solutions to promote the allocation and disbursement of public investment capital in 2025 and related directive documents of the Government and Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister emphasized that ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, other central agencies, and chairmen of provincial and municipal People's Committees are fully responsible to the Government and the Prime Minister for the results of the allocation and disbursement of public investment capital in 2025; resolutely not allowing the situation of capital waiting for projects, or having capital but not being able to disburse it.

Heads of ministries, central and local agencies must promote responsibility, closely monitor, be specific, grasp the situation, clearly identify difficulties, obstacles and causes of slow allocation and disbursement of each specific project to directly direct timely solutions; strengthen close coordination between agencies and units under their management and with relevant ministries and agencies to remove difficulties and obstacles in the process of project implementation and disbursement of public investment capital.

" If it is not completed by the end of the first quarter of 2025, the Government will recover it to allocate to other projects that need capital to complete. The detailed allocation of the capital plan must ensure focus, key points, not spread out or fragmented, consistent with the implementation and disbursement capacity and in accordance with the legal regulations on public investment ," the Prime Minister requested.

The Prime Minister also requested to strengthen discipline and order, strictly handle according to regulations investors, project management boards, organizations and individuals who intentionally slow down the progress of allocation and disbursement of public investment capital; promptly replace cadres, civil servants and public employees who are weak in capacity, slow, causing harassment and trouble, and resolutely handle negative and corrupt behaviors in public investment management.

The Prime Minister assigned the Prime Minister's working groups to inspect, urge, remove difficulties and obstacles, promote disbursement of public investment capital at ministries, agencies, localities and working delegations of Government members to work with localities on the situation of production and business, construction investment, import and export to continue to improve operational efficiency, proactively strengthen inspection, urge, and work to promptly remove difficulties and obstacles, promote disbursement of public investment.

(Source: Tien Phong) Link: https://tienphong.vn/thu-tuong-phe-binh-26-bo-co-quan-trung-uong-va-48-dia-phuong-post1

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