PRIME MINISTER
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence-Freedom-Happiness
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No.1592/QĐ-TTg
Hanoi, 12th October 2009
DECISION
No.1592/QĐ-TTg dated 12/10/2009 of the Prime Minister on constant
implementation of support policies on production land, resiential land and
potable water for poor ethnic minority households up to 2010
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PRIME MINISTER
- Pursuant to Law of Governmental Organization dated 25th
December 2001;
- At the request of Minister of Ethnic Minority Committee.
DECISION
CLAUSE 1. To continue implementing some support policies on
production land, housing land and potable water up to 2010 for poor ethnic
minority households for production development and stable improvement for
living.
1. Beneficiaries and program scope:
To be the poor ethnic minority households under the national poverty
standard of Decision No.170/2005/QĐ-TTg on 8th July 2005 of the Prime
Minister, who earn living by farming, forestation, have no or have not enough
production land as regulated; difficulty in houses and potable water, have not
enjoyed support policies under Decision No. 134/2004/QĐ-TTg on 20th July
2004 of the Prime Minister.
Regarding the Mekong River Delta, to roll out the support policy on
production land, housing land and job creation under Decision
No.74/2008/QĐ-TTg on 9th August 2008 of the Prime Minister.
2. Direction:
a) To support production lands, house lands and potable water
directly for poor ethnic households.
b) To ensure as right beneficiaries, on public and equality for each
household, village under the Central Law and Policy.
c) Suitable with the custom and tradition of each nationality, region,
preserve cultural feature of each ethnic group; in line with the actual condition
and the socio-economic development of each locality.
d) To support both housing land and houses with the mottos "People
do themselves, the Government support, the community help".
đ) The households who are supported on production lands, housing
lands, houses and potable water must use loans for proper purpose, for
production development, improvement for living standard and contribution to
poverty reduction; not entitled to transfer, offer, mortgage and let out
production lands within 10 years since the date the Government allocate. If
the households, who are provided production, housing lands and houses,
move to another area for living (outside locality), they must have an obligation
for returning back production, housing lands and houses to communal
governments for their management; Regarding households who move to
areas under the Central programming will continue to be supported on
production lands and housing lands as stipulated at this Decision.
e) The laborers are supported partly costs for job training or job
transfer must use costs for right purpose through vocational training bases at
locality or combine with support policies on training and job creation in
enterprises.
CLAUSE 2. POLICY:
1.Support production land:
a) Support production land directly:
- The limit of production land for each household is subject to the
common average and the possibility of the local land availability but the
minimum is 0.25 hecta of wet rice field for one crop or 0.15 hecta of wet rice
field for two crops or 0.5 hecta of upland or 0.5 hecta of aquaculture land.
- For the household who has not enough production land as above
regulated, the supported land is based on the demands and capacity of
labour and production of each household.
- The supported amount size from the State Budget and the loan size
is VND 20 million per household at maximum, of which the supported amount
is VND 10 million/household and the loan size is VND 10 million/household
with the five-year term and zero lending rate. With this support size and
based on the land price at locality, the provincial People Committee submit to
the provincial People Council for considering and approving to allocate bigger
land areas for household than the above stipulation.
- Forestry, agricultural enterprises, management unit of protection
forest, production forest and cooperatives take charge of helping ethnic
minority households who are supported VND 10 million/hecta averagely for
reclaiming, building traffic roads, electricity and small irrigation constructions.
- The production land fund for allocating disadvantaged ethnic
minority households includes: Public lands revoked in programming by the
State, revoked land from enterprises, forest management units who manage
uneffectively, wrong beneficiaries or wrong competence, released or
borrowed state land, unused lands, revoked lands from enterprises who use
unproperly or dissolve, reclaiming lands, rehabilitated lands, offered or
procured lands, voluntarily transfered lands, lands returned voluntarily by
users, lands of individuals who are dead without inheritors etc., land revoke is
executed in accordance with the Land Law and prevailing regulations.
b) Contracting forest protection and afforestation:
- The household who have not or lack production lands set forth at
Item a, have needs for forest protection or afforestation, the local government
will sign contract with them on forest protection or afforestation equivalent to
the lacked production land as regulated.
- The area limit of assiging forest protection afforestation is 30
hecta/household or 5 hecta/household maximally respectively.
- For the household taking over forest protection is supported VND
200,000/hecta/year from the State Budget; each household enjoys total
products after exploitation and gets support from the State Budget at the first
time in investment of facilities, forestry seedling tree in process of planting
production forest from VND 2 - 5 million/hecta (Based on prices of materials,
breeding trees at locality, the Chairman of provincial People's Committee will
consider and decide the supported amount size).
- For the household living in poor districts under Government's
Resolution 30a/2008/NQ-CP dated 27th December 2008 and taking over
forest protection and production afforestation, not only enjoys the above
policy but also receives the following policies: 15 kilos of rice/head/month
during the period of not earning enough food (the subsidy time is decided by
the Chairman of provinvial People's Committee), VND five million/household
for food production land in the area of forest protection and production
afforestation) the State Budget supports 50% of lending rate in state
commercial banks for production afforestation.
Based on the forest area in need of protection, land of production
afforestation at commune and persons who have demands for forest
protection and afforestation, the communal People's Committee formulates
plans and conducts procedures of assigining forest protection and
afforestation as regulated.
c) Support job transfer:
- For the household who has laborers but has no needs for job
training but have demands for capitals to procure farming tools and machines
serving agricultural production households or other jobs, he or she will be
supported VND three million from the State Budget and borrow VND 10
million/household maximally with three-year term and zero lending rate.
- For the laborers have needs for training job transfer will be
supported VND three million/labor maximally; Based on fees, jobs and actual
training duration, the Chairman of provincial People's Committee decides the
supported amount for each labor.
- For the laborers who are supported training job transfer, after job
training if they have needs for capitals to procure farming tools and machines
or other jobs, they will be supported more VND three million/household and
the loan size is VND 10 million/household at maximum with the three-year
term and zero lending rate for business.
The households or laborers transfer jobs not only enjoy the above
policies but also receive the preferential policies on job training in line with the
prevailing regulation. In addition to the above supported size, based on the
capacity of local budget, each locality will decide the supported amount for
local residentials.
d) Support overseas workers:
- For overseas workers will be supported the cost of job training as
VND three million/labor at average from the central budget, the supported
amount for each labor is subject to training costs, jobs and actual training
duration.
- Apart from support for training costs, before working overseas, the
laborers are entitled to borrow VND 30 million/person at maximum; the loan
size and loan term are subject to the actual demands and ability of each
person.
In addition to the above supported amount, based on the capacity of
local budget, each locality will decide the additional supported amount for
overseas workers. For the districts with higher poverty rate than set forth at
Government's Resolution 30a/2008/NQ-CP dated 27th December 2008 under
Premier's Decision 71/2009/QĐ-TTg dated 29th april 2009.
2. Support for potable water:
a) Dispersed potable water: For the poor ethnic minority household
having difficulty in potable water will be supported VND one million/hosehold
at verage in order to build water containers or digging water wells and create
living water resources by themselves.
b) For centred potable water supply constructions:
- To continue on building living water constructions in villages and
hamlets where in building progress, the construction with total costs from
VND 1,000 million under the approved project of conducting Government's
Decision No.134/2004/QĐ-TTg dated 20th July 2004; the cost for building
constructions of each project is approved by the the provincial People's
Committee.
- For specially disadvantaged areas wihout water resources, the State
Budget will invest for private targeted programs.
3. Suppor houses and housing lands:
a) Support houses under Premier's Decision No.167/2008/QĐ-TTg
dated 12th December 2008.
b) Support housing lands linking with house support; local
governments at levels create land fund and allocate for poor ethnic
households without housing lands.
CLAUSE 3. BORROWING CONDITION:
1. The households or laborers are considered for borrowing for
production and job transfer must be in accordance with Item 1, Clause 2 of
this Decision and must have business, production projects that communal
authorities and mass organizations certify or support project forming.
2.
The
overseas
workers,
apart
from
verification
of
communal/ward/town governments, must have verification of enterprises
which deliver migrant workers abroad or competent agencies which issue
operation liscense and in line with the prevailing policy on overseas workers.
3. the loan resources from Vietnam Bank for Social Policies, the
borrower is exempt from interest repayment during the loan term. Each
household can borrow one time or many times but total loan for each time
does not exceed from the stipulation and free from administrative procedures
of borrowing. The loan procedures and loan term are stipulated by VBSP.
CLAUSE 4. CAPITAL RESOURCES:
1. The state budget offers targeted support for localities and VBSP to
conduct policies under the prevailing regulation.
2. The local budget ensures minimally 20% compared to the central
budget and mobilize more other legal capital resources to implement policies.
For localities facing difficulty in budgets and must receive additional
balances from the central budget, the central budget will support supplement
counterpart funds as follows: 20% for localities receiving additional balances
from the central budget over 70% of cost estimate of local budget blance in
2008; 15% for localities receiving supplement funds from 50% - 70% of cost
estimate of local budget balance in 2008; 10% for localities receiving
supplement funds under 50% of cost estimate of local budget balance in
2008.
3. VBSP guarantees costs for households as stated in this decision.
The loan source provided by the state budget is 70% of total loan sources for
VBSP, remained 30% is mobilized by VBSP. The central budget offers
subsidy on lending rate differences for VBSP.
CLAUSE 5. IMPLEMENTATION:
1. Central Ministries and Agencies:
a) Ethnic Minority Committee hosts and coordinates with Ministry of
Planning and Investment, Ministry of Finance and other relevant ministries
and agencies:
- To guide localities to review and formulate the project of conducting
policies as stated in this decision.
- To consolidate and build the general plan of conducting policies as
stated in this decision and report with the Prime Minister;
- To supervise, urge, monitor, consolidate and report the current
situation of implementing this decision; to sum up, evaluate policies after
finishing;
b) Ministry of Planning and Investment hosts and coordinate with the
Ethnic Minority Committee and Ministry of Finance:
- To consolidate and submit to the Government Prime Minister anf
Standing Committee of National Assembly supplement targeted funds for
localities and VBSP in 2009 in order to complete targeted policies in 2010;
- To consolidate plans and allocate targeted funds for localities and
VBSP following the plan and cost estimate in 2010, reporting to the Prime
Minister and submit to the National Assembly for approval.
c) Minsitry of Finance hosts and coordinates with the Ethnic Minority
Committee, Ministry of Planning and Investment to allocate managment costs
for localities; provide funds and management costs in order to conduct
policies; provide subisidy on interest rate differences and management costs
for VBSP; to direct supervision, monitoring and guide capital grants to right
addresses.
d) Ministry of Agricuture and Rural Development hosts and
coordinates with the Ethnic Minority Committee and other relevant ministries
and agencies:
- To direct and guide localities to conduct contracting on forest
protection and afforestation, building and improving living water constructions.
- To guide localities which have specially disadvantaged areas
without water resources to make survey, formulate and approve investment
projects of building living water constructions for community, to consolidate
and submit to the Prime Minsiter according to private programs.
đ) Based on the approved projects, VBSP formulates the annual
credit plan, the supported size and management costs, the mobilized limit
and cost of subsidy and send to the Ethnic Minority Committee, Ministry of
Finance, Minsitry of Planning and Investment to consolidate and submit to the
Prime Minister and National Assembly for consideration and decision for
lending procedures and guidances; periodically report the implementation
result of this decision to the Prime Minister and send to the Ethnic Minority
Committee, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Planning and Investment.
e) Relevant Ministries and agencies are in charge of monitoring,
supporting localities to conduct this decision effectively.
2. Provincial People's Committee:
a) Provincial People's Committee takes direct and comprehensive
responsibility on formulating, approving and conducting the project of support
policies for production lands, housing lands, houses, potable water and job
creation for poor ethnic households at locality (Project of conducting policies
as stated in this decision of localities).
b) To announce on public policies, criteria, beneficiaries and
investigate, survey, formulate and approve the project of conducting policies
as stated in this decision at locality; to send approved local projects to the
Ethnic Minority Commitee, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of
Finance and VBSP before 20th October 2009 in order for ministries and
agencies to consolidate and set the implementation plan and report to the
Prime Minister.
c) To direct agencies at local levels to coordinate with mass
organizations, training bases and enterprises at locality in order to conduct
this decision in the most effective manner.
d) To direct transforming capital resources for conducting this
decision with other projects and policies at locality; to implement support
policies effectively and comprehensively for purpose of enhancing poverty
reduction, improving living standard for ethnic minorities.
đ) To support and direct junior People's Committee to facilitate VBSP
to conduct lending and loan collection.
e) Regularly monitor implementation and sensure for right purpose,
right addresses and avoid losses and negative issues.
CLAUSE 6. The decision takes effective since the signing date.
CLAUSE 7. The Ministers and Leaders from minitries and
government's agencies take responsibilties for implementing the Decision./.
PRIME MINISTER
(Signed)
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng