At the NA Standing Committee’s meeting on Saturday, Nguyen Duc Hai, chairman of the Committee of Finance and Budget, said public investment should be allocated to disadvantaged areas in the northwest, Central Highlands and southwestern regions and focus on responding to climate change and saline intrusion.

NA chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân chairs the meeting.

Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung said the allocation of public investment capital is to restructure investment, sectors and regions and to focus resources on important national infrastructure projects.

The budget must ensure equality for mountainous, border, island and ethnic minority areas and avoid wastefulness, he said.

NA chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said practical conditions of localities should be added to the list of criteria to determine public investment rate.

Discussing the renewal of general education’s curriculum and textbooks, the NA’s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescents and Children asked the Ministry of Education and Training to pay more attention to textbook prices which is an issue concerning the public.

The committee also proposed Government launch policies to assist educational facilities in the disadvantaged, ethnic minority areas as well as supply textbooks to school libraries.

As the ninth session of the 14th NA will kick off on May 20, the NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan asked NA committees and delegations to study documents and implement their assigned tasks. The NA Office has been assigned to make technical preparations and take Covid-19 prevention and control measures to ensure the meetings run smoothly.

The ninth session will he held online and offline and last until June 19.

Bridges of love for poor patients

(BGO) - Currently, a number of hospitals in Bac Giang province are effectively implementing the model of social work groups. Despite not wearing a white blouse and not directly treating the sick, the groups’ members have become bridges that persuade organizations and individuals to help poor patients, thus spreading human values ​​and love right in hospital beds.

Hanoi earmarks 28.2 mln USD for the poor amid Covid-19

Hanoi will earmark 650 billion VND (28.2 million USD), the first stage, in support of the poor and other social beneficiaries via the local branch of Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP), amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Helping national contributors not to become poor again

(BGO) - To gradually improve the quality of life for people  who rendered service to the nation, the labour, war invalids and social affairs sector strives to have no poor households whose members are policy beneficiaries by the end of 2020. In Bac Giang, this task was completed in 2019.

Teacher spends young days on supporting poor people

Poor residents in remote areas in western Quang Tri province consider teacher Ly Chi Thanh as part of their families thanks to his volunteer work.

Bring lovingness to poor student

(BGO) – Looking at the bright face of 12 year old boy Nguyen Van Cuong with special passion for study, few people knew that he used to live as a disappointed vagrant. If it was not the humane arm of teacher Tran Thi Tap, Head Mistress of Viet Lap Primary School (Tan Yen district, Bac Giang province), no one would imagine how is the boy now.

Source: VNS