Programme 135 for the 2016-2026 term is to improve infrastructure and boost production capacity in extremely disadvantaged areas including border communes, communes in war safety zones and extremely disadvantaged hamlets.
The committee proposed that the programme focus on three areas from 2016-2020: investing in infrastructure, boosting production capability and improving the capacity of community and grassroots employees benefitting from the programme.
The committee also suggested the government allocate VND56.9 trillion (US$2.610 billion) for policies supporting social-economic development.
Addressing the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh said that the 135 programme has achieved encouraging results in the past years, helping reduce the country’s poverty rate to 5.97% in 2014.
He asked the committee to review policies and make adjustments to avoid overlapping and increase effectiveness.
From 2011-2015, the total capital of for the implementation of ethnic affairs policies presided over by the committee amounted to VND24.57 trillion (US$1.13 billion).
He instructed the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to allocate more capital from the National Target Programme on New Rural Development to impoverished communes.
