Quang Binh: Establishing working groups to resolutely remove difficulties in disbursing public investment capital

Specifically, the People's Committee of Quang Binh province requires investors with low disbursement projects to carefully evaluate the causes. From there, they will correct the responsibilities of individuals and groups; at the same time, they will propose specific solutions to speed up the disbursement of public investment capital.

It is known that at the beginning of the year, the Provincial People's Committee issued a decision to establish 3 working groups to inspect, urge and remove difficulties to speed up the disbursement progress. The working groups are headed by provincial leaders. Accordingly, Working Group No. 1 is headed by Comrade Doan Ngoc Lam, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Working Group No. 2 is headed by Comrade Phan Phong Phu, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and Working Group No. 3 is headed by Comrade Hoang Xuan Tan, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.

After the working groups established by the Provincial People's Committee inspected the construction and disbursement progress of the projects under their charge. For public investment projects invested by agencies, units and localities in the province, the working groups listened to the investors and contractors present their problems and difficulties; from there, they proposed specific solutions to speed up the progress. In addition, projects under national target programs, ODA projects and other projects implemented in the area were also regularly inspected and urged.

During the inspection process, the working groups established by the Provincial People's Committee also reviewed the responsibilities in leadership, direction, urging, inspection, review, and handling of difficulties, obstacles, and bottlenecks in disbursement of public investment capital at each department, branch, unit, and locality, including the responsibilities of the heads.

In April, Mr. Phan Phong Phu, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Head of Working Group No. 2, had a working session with departments, branches, localities, and investors on the estimated disbursement of public investment capital. As of June 30, the total number of projects monitored by Working Group No. 2 was 50, with the total capital allocated in the 2024 plan being more than 1,400 billion VND, accounting for 30.6% of the total capital plan of the central budget and the provincial budget that has been deployed. Of which, there are 47 transitional public investment projects and 3 ODA projects. Through inspection, as of June 30, the projects monitored by Working Group No. 2 had disbursed 28.7% of the total allocated capital....

Recently, (June 28), Working Group No. 3, headed by Mr. Hoang Xuan Tan, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee, also worked with investors. According to the assignment of the People's Committee of Quang Binh province, Working Group No. 3 was assigned to monitor 77 public investment projects. Of which, there are 04 projects implemented in the period 2018 - 2024; 30 projects implemented in the period 2021 - 2024; 39 projects implemented in the period 2022 - 2025; 02 projects implemented in the period 2023 - 2024; 02 projects implemented in the period 2024 - 2025.

The total capital allocated in 2024 for projects under Task Force 3 is nearly 739 billion VND (including the extended capital plan), of which the central budget is nearly 360 billion VND and the provincial budget is more than 379 billion VND. During the working session with investors, Task Force 3 listened to the difficulties and problems that investors and contractors are facing. From there, specific and radical solutions were proposed to completely remove the difficulties. As of June 30, the projects monitored by Task Force 3 had disbursed nearly 30% of the total allocated capital.

Along with the establishment of 3 working groups to regularly inspect and urge the progress of public investment disbursement, the People's Committee of Quang Binh province also held a conference to discuss solutions to speed up the progress of public investment disbursement. At this conference, Chairman of the People's Committee of Quang Binh province - Vu Dai Thang assigned specific tasks to departments, branches, units and localities in implementing the plan, promoting capital disbursement in 2024 and required to thoroughly grasp and enhance the sense of responsibility of investors. At the same time, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Quang Binh province also emphasized that "for any delay in any stage or procedure, the head of that department, branch, unit or locality must take full responsibility".

Thanks to the synchronous implementation of many solutions, the progress of public investment disbursement in Quang Binh province has had many positive changes. As of June 30, the whole province had disbursed 28.7% of the total allocated capital. Notably, key projects such as the coastal road, Thermal Power Plant II, Nhat Le Bridge 3 Project... had a high disbursement rate of 29.39%.