Once again, the General Secretary called for practicing thrift and combating waste. This time, the General Secretary affirmed that the country cannot develop rapidly if this situation occurs.
How can we develop quickly when many resources are lost, the budget is abused, and spending is ineffective.
In the past few days, the press has reported that some localities have organized officials and civil servants to travel in the name of studying. Although they are officials and civil servants, they do not practice thrift and know how to use state money to travel, but still participate.
Many resettlement projects have been completed but people cannot move in, seriously degraded after many years of abandonment, thousands of billions of VND have been lost. To renovate, we have to spend more budget.
In addition, many projects investing in hospitals, transport infrastructure, and flood prevention have not been completed, and the project has been exposed to the sun and rain, causing uncountable waste.
General Secretary To Lam once mentioned the two projects of Bach Mai Hospital and Viet Duc Hospital, Facility 2, which are typical of not saving, extremely wasteful.
Regarding flood prevention infrastructure, the 10,000 billion VND flood prevention project in Ho Chi Minh City is entering the 5th year of exposing to the sun and rain without a way out. As each day passed, people still suffered from flooding, but the project was still delayed due to problems caused by the management agencies themselves.
In addition, many cultural houses and medical centers are not exploiting it effectively. In many localities, the headquarters have been abandoned after being built, turning into a place to raise cows and a landfill, causing great pain.
Even the construction headquarters put into operation were built too big, far exceeding the needs of use. This is not saving, it is a waste of budget.
A huge waste that must be mentioned is a waste of time. Investors have to wait too long, go through many procedures, lose gold opportunities to produce and do business, and create wealth for society.
Many legal regulations overlap, are stuck, and are even outdated, causing obstacles in social operations. For example, the regulation on public investment and bidding, the General Secretary recently pointed out:
"In terms of bidding, the process has only been nearly a year, there are several months of selecting bids, several months of opening bids, and several months of bid evaluation. So why do you have time to implement while the budget money is only given for one year, not spent this year's money for the next year".
Issuing inappropriate policies and regulations is also an obstacle to development, taking away time to develop the country.
