More than VND300 billion offered socio-economic development in communes 135

Published On: 14/01/2016

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(Quang Binh Portal) - During the past five years (2011-2015), the province has supported VND309 billion for socio-economic development programme at especially difficult communes in ethnic minority areas (known as Programme 135). Of which, nearly VND289 billion is from Central budget and VND20.8 billion from the European Union and the Northern Ireland.
 The Programme has encouraged agricultural and forestry expansion, assisted plant varieties and breedings, build production model, equipped with machines and tools for production and food processing; allocated investment in 254 projects in 44 communes and 27 villages sharing especially difficult circumstances; opened 2 training courses for 115 trainees on management skills and 10 training courses on agricultural and forestry promotion, health for more than 500 trainees.

The Programme has basically provided communes with essential infrastructures such as transport, irrigation, electricity, school, medical station...

The province currently has 44 communes and 27 villages sharing especially difficult circumstances benefited from the Programme 135 with 40,623 households and 167,944 persons (in which 13,672 poor households, making up 21.02%; ethnic minority people 5,320 households with 22,496 persons).

After five years of being benefited from the Programme 135, the life of people has considerably improved. Through source of supporting capital, the people have raised their knowledge, learnt about technical advances, changed plant and breeding structure, contributing to improve productivity and output.

At present, 94.3% of communes is connected national grid with 84% of households using electricity. Rate of poor households in especially difficult communes decreases from 61.57% in 2011 to 21.02% in 2015, surged by 4%/year.

By Nhu Y
(Source: Quang Binh Portal)