On March 30, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting with the Steering Committee on reviewing and removing difficulties and obstacles related to projects to listen to reports on the situation of reviewing, evaluating, and finding solutions to continue to remove difficulties and obstacles for projects that are still pending.
According to the report of the Ministry of Finance - the standing agency of the Steering Committee, as of March 25, a total of 1,533 projects were reported by agencies and localities to be facing difficulties and obstacles, including 338 public investment projects, 1,126 non-budget investment projects and 69 PPP projects.
In addition, the Ministry of Finance received documents from enterprises reflecting on 12 projects facing difficulties and obstacles.
The Government has issued Resolution 233/NQ-CP on policies and directions to remove difficulties and obstacles for renewable energy projects. It is expected that the agencies will submit to the Government a resolution to remove obstacles for 5 projects in Ho Chi Minh City in early April.
For the two projects of Bach Mai Hospital and Viet Duc Hospital, Facility 2, the Government has issued Resolution No. 34/NQ-CP; the Government leaders have agreed in principle to allocate additional budget from increased revenue in 2024 to complete the two projects in 2025, and soon put them into service of the people.
In his concluding remarks, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh noted that in the process of resolving, the responsibilities of individuals and groups will be handled as much as possible; "rating the rat but not breaking the bottle", not allowing mistakes to overlap, not creating a precedent for further violations.
The Prime Minister requested to focus on resolving 1,533 projects that have been reported, if any projects arise, they will continue to be resolved. For individual problems, it is necessary to propose specific mechanisms for handling.
Regarding the deadline, the Prime Minister directed that the procedures to handle the projects must be tried to complete before May 30.
In particular, for projects with land clearance problems, the Prime Minister requested localities, especially at the grassroots level, to completely resolve problems related to site clearance.
For projects with violations during implementation but have been implemented basically, making it difficult to recover projects, propose solutions to remove them, give a deadline to overcome difficulties, obstacles and consequences (if any).
The Prime Minister emphasized the spirit of not covering up, not leaving out, not letting violations happen, not letting state assets be lost but ensuring the legitimate and legal rights and interests of people and businesses.
The Prime Minister directs the Ministry of Finance to develop and submit to the Government for promulgation a resolution to handle groups of issues under its authority. Build a database system of projects with difficulties, problems, backlogs, and prolongations, based on the database to analyze causes, propose appropriate, feasible, and effective solutions.
The head of the Government also requested general guidance with forms and outlines for ministries, branches and localities to report.
Along with that, the Ministry of Finance and the Government Office urgently submitted to the Prime Minister to issue a third telegram to direct, orient and urge agencies and localities to continue reviewing, evaluating and classifying projects that are backlogged and stuck for reporting.
From there, propose tasks, solutions, plans, mechanisms, and policies for handling. If not reported on time, we must take responsibility when the authorities intervene.
