The Prime Minister's Official Telegram on resolutely implementing tasks and solutions to promote disbursement of public investment capital in the last months of 2024

On 7/11/2024, the Prime Minister issued the Official Telegram No. 115/CD-TTg on resolutely implementing tasks and solutions to promote disbursement of public investment capital in the last months of 2024.

According to the Official Telegram, in order to strive to achieve the highest economic growth target and socio-economic development goals and targets in 2024 assigned by the Central Government, the National Assembly, and the Government, especially the disbursement of public investment capital must reach a rate of over 95% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister requested ministries, central agencies, and localities, according to their assigned functions, tasks, and authorities, to continue to beef up their responsibilities more, focus on leading, directing, and operating to implement more resolutely, promptly, and effectively the key tasks and solutions as follows:

- To continue to fully grasp the important role and significance of public investment for socio-economic development, identify public investment disbursement as one of the top important political tasks of all levels and sectors, contributing to boosting economic growth, creating jobs and livelihoods for people...; public investment capital is a source of capital to lead and attract, mobilize other capital sources in society for development investment.

- To urgently implement the Resolutions and directions of the Government and the Prime Minister, especially Official Telegram No. 24/CD-TTg dated March 22, 2024, Directive No. 26/CT-TTg dated August 8, 2024, Official Telegram No. 104/CD-TTg dated October 8, 2024 of the Prime Minister, focusing on performing flexible, creative, timely and effective measures and solutions; resolutely and highly determined in directing and operating, clearly assigning people, tasks, responsibilities, progress and results; strengthening discipline and order in disbursing public investment capital; focusing on inspection and supervision, promptly removing bottlenecks and obstacles in implementation.

- To focus on promoting site clearance, prioritizing the allocation of sufficient funds to carry out compensation and site clearance for areas with sufficient conditions; effectively carry out propaganda, mobilization, inventory and accelerate the construction of resettlement areas, and promptly hand over the site for construction.

- To strictly conduct the directions of the Government leaders on removing difficulties related to licensing of mines, exploitation of stone, sand and soil materials; carry out measures to control prices and quality of raw materials serving public investment projects to ensure speed, efficiency and compliance with legal regulations.

- To further improve the effectiveness of the Special Working Group on Public Investment Disbursement headed by the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee. To assign leaders to monitor, increase the frequency of inspection, supervision, and specific assessment of work performance results each week, closely follow the project implementation progress, promptly handle existing problems and shortcomings, resolve difficulties and obstacles, and speed up the implementation and disbursement of public investment capital.

- To proactively review and evaluate the disbursement capacity of each project, synthesize the additional capital needs of the projects and adjust the capital plan from slow-disbursement projects to the ones with disbursement capacity within the ministries, central agencies, and localities according to regulations.

- To strengthen the inspection, urging, timely commendation and reward of organizations, individuals, and units with good results in disbursing public investment capital; resolutely and strictly handle investors, project management boards, organizations and individuals who deliberately cause difficulties, obstruct, and lack responsibility, slowing down the progress of capital allocation, capital adjustment, project implementation and public investment disbursement.

In addition, the Prime Minister assigned specific tasks to the Ministries of Planning and Investment, Finance, Natural Resources and Environment, Construction, Ministries, agencies in charge of national target programs, etc.; at the same time, assigned the Government Office to monitor according to assigned functions and tasks, coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment to urge the implementation of the Official Telegram.