Son La focuses on removing bottlenecks, boosting public investment disbursement

Nguyen Minh Tien, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, on November 13 chaired a hybrid meeting with provincial departments, agencies and the People's Committees of all 75 communes and wards to review progress, address bottlenecks and accelerate the disbursement of public investment funds in 2026.

Nguyen Minh Tien, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, chairs the meeting.
A leader of the Department of Finance speaks at the meeting.

According to a report by the Department of Finance, the province's total public investment capital plan for 2026 exceeds 7.866 trillion VND (305.77 million USD), including more than 1.978 trillion VND carried over from the previous year and nearly 5.888 trillion VND allocated for 2026.

As of November 11, nearly 7.46 trillion VND had been allocated in detail, equivalent to 94.8% of the total plan. Disbursement reached nearly 4.688 trillion VND, or 59.6% of the plan, up more than 252 billion VND from October 31, but remained behind schedule.

Disbursement rates stood at 49.6% for commune- and ward-level authorities, 66% for project management boards and 79.6% for other project investors.

A leader of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism addresses the meeting.

At the meeting, participants discussed measures to accelerate disbursement, review and classify undistributed funds, assess implementation capacity through the end of 2026, prioritise disbursement of funding sources with large outstanding balances and promptly address capital allocations unlikely to be disbursed, with the aim of achieving the highest possible disbursement rate this year.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Nguyen Minh Tien speaks at the meeting.

In his concluding remarks, Tien called on heads of agencies and units, as well as chairpersons of commune- and ward-level People's Committees, to take direct responsibility for disbursement results and avoid shifting or evading responsibility.

He assigned the Department of Finance to coordinate in reviewing funding sources and advise on reallocating funds unlikely to be disbursed to projects progressing well but facing funding shortages.

All units were instructed to strictly comply with weekly progress reporting requirements. Public criticism and accountability reviews will be applied to collectives and individuals responsible for delays or failure to meet their committed disbursement targets.

The provincial Transport Construction Project Management Board was also instructed to strictly implement the conclusions issued by the provincial People's Committee./.

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