Dong Nai Holds a Summation Meeting about the Implementation of the Prime Minister’s Resolution no. 134 and no.07

Vice Chairwoman of Dong Nai People’s Committee Huynh Thi Nga chaired the meeting.

Rewards are awarded to excellent collectives

Addressing the meeting, Head of Dong Nai Commission for Ethnic Minority Affairs Dieu Bao reported on the province’s implementation of Resolution no.134, which has shown practical results the past four years to some extent.

Dong Nai has provided agricultural land for 40 households, and assisted them with breeding techniques and knowledge, offered vocational training to 2,668 households, and supplied accommodation for 598 households, housing for 2,422 households and water for nearly 3,000 households.

Thanks to the above support programs, ethnic minority people can peacefully settle, deal with difficulties in their daily life, and make contributions to big changes in all aspects.

The second phase of Program 135 in 2006-2010  period in the province has practically implemented and reflected the people’s thoughts and aspirations.

Ethnic minority people’s materialistic and spiritual lives have been raised with 98 percent of communes that have roads for vehicles, with 100 percent of communes that have standard chools, and medical clinics, with 97 percent of households that gain access to electricity and with a poverty decline from 23.5 percent in 2006 to 20 percent in 2010.

- The training of ethnic minority officers has been paid attention to.

- Political security, social order and safety and the great national unity bloc have been maintained.

Addressing the meeting, Vice Chairwoman of  Dong Nai People’s Committee Huynh Thi Nga highly appreciated the efforts of all levels, all sectors and all classes of people in the province through difficulties and in reaching the program’s targets. However, there remains some challenges:

- The implementation progress of the program has still been slow.

- There have remained difficulties towards how to verify and select government policy beneficiaries.

- Some local authorities have not taken initiative to make plans and been slow in implementing these plans.

- Little education and propaganda have reached the hands of the people, and a minority of ethnic minority people are always relying on and waiting to get the assistance from the government.

To successfully implement Decision no.134 and Program 135 in the future, Chairman of Dong Nai People’s Committee asks:

- All sectors and local authorities to continue fully grasping the Party and the government’s guidelines and policies and to fulfill targets and tasks concerning Ethnic Minority Affairs.

- The Commission for Ethnic Minority Affairs and concerned agencies to timely consult levels of authorities on how to implement programs effectively, reach national objectives, carry out investment projects, and give assistance to ethnic minority people.

- To enhance poverty alleviation programs among ethnic minority communities.

- To focus on dealing with urgent issues, stabilize and improve the public demand for food, accommodation, life, and health.

- To preserve and promote the country’s cultural identities, and continue bringing law education and propaganda to ethnic minority communities.

- To focus on and promote vocational training programs that go together with providing jobs for ethnic minority young people, and consider this as a key solution to helping people reduce poverty and acquire a firm life.

On this occasion, Dong Nai People’s Committee awarded certificates of merit to 22 collectives and 54 individuals with outstanding achievements in the implementation of the Prime Minister’s Resolutions no.134 and no.07.

Reported by Lien Huong, Translated by Duy Minh