Government, PM's working report hailed by NA Standing Committee

The government and Prime Minister’s working report for the 2011-2016 tenure received a strong sense of approval from the National Assembly’s Standing Committee during its ongoing 45th session in Hanoi on February 24.

Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaking at the session (Credit: VGP)

The committee’s members hailed the government and PM for their efforts to develop socio-economic and cultural fields, control inflation, stabilise the macro-economy, ensure social welfare and national defence-security, as well as improve competitiveness and international economic integration.

According to the report, 17 out of 26 targets set in the 2011-2015 plan were achieved.

The PM has directed a flexible monetary policy that cuts interest rates and offers affordable and quality credit to the economy whilst dealing with bad debts.

Drastic and synchronous actions were taken under a comprehensive scheme on economic restructuring in combination with renewing growth models and restructuring sectors.

Thanks to the National Target Programme on New Rural Construction, people in rural areas are enjoying improved material and spiritual lives.

The government, led by the Prime Minister, has abided seriously by the Party leadership, the NA’s resolutions, legal regulations and the principle of democratic centralism.

In administrative reform, 4,471 out of 4,723 procedures, or 94.7%, have been simplified since 2011.

The NA Law Committee hailed the government for its dedicated efforts against corruption and wastefulness, especially in sensitive areas such as taxation and the State budget. However, the report has yet to bring to light the extent of the problem, as well as the causes and responsibility of those concerned, leading to below-expectation results.

Wastefulness remains in many fields, including in the construction of offices and monuments, and the procurement and use of public assets.

The report pointed out several shortcomings in exercising the government’s function, including the slow progress of forming bills and ordinances, limited analytic and forecasting capacity, in addition to the asynchronous combination of monetary, fiscal, trade and investment policies.

Several recommended adding contents regarding the implementation of major schemes to improve the efficiency of the government, reshuffle ministries and ministry-level units.

Chairman of the NA Council of Ethnic Affairs Ksor Phuoc suggested the report should include problems inherited from previous tenures and solutions to dealing with them, as well as the outcomes of settling issues raised at the NA’s question-and-answer sessions.

(Source: NDO)