On October 17, information from Nghe An Provincial People's Committee said that after many consecutive natural disasters causing serious consequences, the province has urgently allocated relief funds to localities and units.
Since the beginning of the year, Nghe An has been heavily affected by 3 storms (number 3, number 5 and number 10), causing 8 deaths, 25 injuries, more than 105,000 houses, 1,200 schools and 244 medical facilities to be damaged.
According to the report of the Department of Agriculture and Environment, the total economic damage in the province is estimated at about VND 8,587 billion. Storm No. 3 alone caused damage of more than VND3,800 billion, storm No. 5 more than VND1,500 billion and storm No. 10 more than VND3,200 billion.
To promptly overcome the consequences, the Provincial People's Committee has allocated 300 billion VND from the Central emergency support source, and continued to deploy 500 billion VND from the Central budget reserve to repair dykes, dams, civil infrastructure and arrange resettlement for households in urgent areas.
Along with that, the province also allocated an additional 405 billion VND from the local budget to support housing, agriculture, people's livelihood and restore essential works.
Nghe An Provincial People's Committee requests all levels and sectors to focus on quickly supporting people to restore their houses, especially lost households; clearly identify concentrated resettlement areas, reduce administrative procedures so that people can soon stabilize their lives.
In particular, focusing on restoring production, ensuring livelihoods, repairing educational, medical and transportation infrastructure to soon bring life back to normal.
"The province requires the effective and targeted use of support capital sources; allocate quickly, to the right subjects, absolutely do not let delays or losses" - Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh said.
