This is the second group, planning to study the experience of the lottery development model and strategy in Malaysia and Singapore, scheduled to depart from October 26 to October 31, 2024. The first group will travel to the Netherlands, Germany, and France from September 28 to October 8. The first group has now returned home.
The reason the Chairman of Soc Trang stopped the foreign lottery study group is to re-evaluate the necessity and appropriate and effective use of funds in studying and gaining experience.
For Group 1, Chairman of Soc Trang Province Tran Van Lau requested Soc Trang Province Lottery Company Limited to urgently report the results and evaluate the effectiveness of the study trip to the Netherlands, Germany, and France before October 11, 2024.
Many localities in the Mekong Delta organize lottery study tours abroad, the cost is quite high, but the effectiveness is unknown.
Lottery company delegations going abroad to study experience have been going on for many years, the press has spoken out, public opinion has raised the question of whether they are going to study or travel, the answer is actually very clear.
But with the recent strong reactions, localities have reviewed and re-evaluated the "learning from experience" activities of lottery companies. Previously, Bac Lieu Province Chairman Pham Van Thieu affirmed: "I have banned lottery companies from organizing trips abroad". Now, the Chairman of Soc Trang Province has directed to stop the Soc Trang Lottery Company's trips abroad.
Other localities should not look far to learn from experience, but should learn from Bac Lieu and Soc Trang provinces about whether or not to organize delegations to go abroad?
But organizing delegations to study abroad is not only for lottery companies, but many localities across the country also often organize delegations of officials to study and research abroad.
What to study, how to research, and what the results are need to be evaluated objectively and impartially, through which we can see whether the budget money spent on overseas delegations is effective or not.
If you go on a sightseeing trip under the pretext of learning, then come back and make a report to legalize the trip, it will be a waste of taxpayers' money.
