Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung chairs the teleconference with localities to review the implementation of the planning law. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has asked ministries and agencies to fix obstacles during the implementation of the Law on Planning so that slow planning doesn’t hinder socio-economic development. He made the request at a teleconference with localities on July 15 to review the implementation of the law which took effect in January. Dung underlined the significance of the law as its covers many economic sectors and many new concepts are introduced for the first time, including the 10-year overall national planning scheme. The law is also considered an important tool to help the Government, ministries, sectors and localities set development targets and strategies, ensuring comprehensive and sustainable socio-economic development and effective and economical exploitation of resources. To implement the law effectively, the Government issued a resolution earlier this year guiding tasks that ministries, sectors and localities need to undertake, including increasing information dissemination to raise awareness of the law, organising training, issuing documents guiding the implementation and reviewing existing planning work to ensure it’s in line with the law, according to Dung. However, the law has been slowly deployed due to obstacles and different understandings of new concepts, said the Deputy PM. Major obstacles include the adjustment of planning work for 2021-30 as the law fails to cover all planning that needs to be adjusted locally, according to representatives from localities. Another difficulty relates… [Read full story]
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