| THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM |
| No. 135/1998/QD-TTg | Hanoi, July 31, 1998 |
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government of September 30, 1992;
Pursuant to Resolution No. 4/1998/NQ-CP of the Government at its March 1998 regular meeting;
At the proposals of the Minister-Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas, the Minister of Planning and Investment, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development;
DECIDES:
1. General objective:
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2. Specific objectives:
a/ For the 1998-2000 period:
- There will be basically no households suffering from chronic hunger, with the number of poor households to be reduced by 4-5% annually.
- To initially supply the inhabitants with water for their daily life, attract the majority of school-age children into schools; to be able to control a number of dangerous diseases, to build roads to the centers of commune clusters in service of the people's life and economic activities; to help the majority of people to enjoy cultural performances and communication services.
b/ For the 2000-20005 period:
- To reduce the percentage of poor households in communes with special difficulties to 25% by the year 2005.
- To ensure the supply of sufficient water for the inhabitants' daily life; attract over 70% of school-age children into schools; to provide a great majority of inhabitants with production experiences, scientific, cultural and social knowledge so that they can take initiative in applying such experiences and knowledge to their production and life; to be able to control most of dangerous social diseases; to build roads to the centers of commune clusters for motorized vehicles and in service of the people's daily life and economic activities; to boost the development of rural markets.
1. The socio-economic development in mountainous, deep-lying and remote communes with special difficulties must be, first of all, based on the promotion of the internal resources of every household and the community-based assistance and at the same time with the active support of the State in order to tap local land and labor resources as well as the natural, and socio-economic conditions in the areas, create new changes in the people's production as well as material and spiritual life.
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3. There should be comprehensive measures for implementing the program, first of all concentrating on the agricultural and forestrial development; building rural infrastructure; and at the same time boosting the educational, medical, cultural and social development in the areas.
4. The provinces and cities directly under the Central Government, the ministries and branches shall have to assist the communes covered by the program; socio-economic organizations, people's armed forces, socio-professional organizations, enterprises and the people of all strata throughout the country as well as overseas Vietnamese... are encouraged to make active contributions to and support the program implementation.
1. The Central Government shall select 1,000 out of 1,715 communes facing difficulties (the list of these communes is enclosed herewith) of the districts with special difficulties so as to concentrate investment under this program. The remaining communes shall receive priority investment through various national target programs and other development projects and programs.
2. The program shall be implemented from 1998 to 2005.
1. To make a planning on the population re-distribution in places where it is so necessary, step by step rationally organize the daily life of the inhabitants in mountainous and rural villages and hamlets in areas where conditions permit, particularly in border and island communes, create conditions for the inhabitants to quickly stabilize their production and life.
2. To boost agricultural production and forestry in association with products processing and marketing so as to tap local natural resources and utilize the local labor force, create more opportunities of employment and income generation, stabilize the inhabitants' life and gradually develop goods production.
3. To develop the rural infrastructure in line with the production planning and the population re-distribution planning, first of all, the communications system; the drinking water supply systems; and the power-supply systems in areas where conditions permit, including mini hydro-electric power stations.
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5. To train cadres for mountainous and rural communes and villages, help grassroots cadres to raise their administrative and economic management abilities in order to meet the local socio-economic development requirements.
Article 2.- Some major policies
1. Land policy:
The presidents of the provincial People's Committees shall direct the assignment of land and forests and the granting of land tenure certificates in association with the sedentarization and development of new economic zones, creating conditions for the people to have access to land for production and stabilize their life.
a/ Farmers' households in mountainous areas where there are forest protection and planting projects shall be contracted to protect and zone off areas for forest regeneration in combination with additional plantings, be assigned land for planting protection and/or production forests under Decision No. 661/1998/QD-TTg of July 29, 1998 of the Prime Minister on the "objectives, tasks, policies and organization of the implementation of the Project to plant five million hectares of new forests". The land area quotas to be assigned under contracts shall depend on the specific conditions of each locality and be decided by the provincial People's Committees.
b/ In areas where farmers have no land or too little land for agricultural and/or forestrial production, the following solutions may be applied:
- In provinces where land is still left waste and can be reclaimed for the development of agricultural and/or forestrial production, the State shall support the investment in the land reclamation and the assignment of such land to inhabitants for production.
- To assign State-run and military agricultural farms and/or afforestation/logging camps based in the localities to receive landless people, nomadic people and assign land to them under contracts for production.
- The provincial People's Committees shall adopt policies to encourage non-State agricultural and forestrial organizations to receive and offer jobs to poor farmers' households.
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2. Investment and credit policies:
a/ To give priority to investment in building infrastructure in service of agricultural and forestrial production. In places where irrigation works can help develop wet rice cultivation, the State shall allocate the budget capital to support the investment in building irrigation works. In a number of highland areas with special difficulties where there is no wet rice field, the State shall provide funding for developing terraced fields, helping the inhabitants to have conditions for on-the-spot food production.
b/ The State shall subsidize prices and transport freights of goods essential for the production and life of farmers' households living in communes with special difficulties according to Decree No. 20/1998/ND-CP of March 31, 1998 of the Government.
c/ Households which are assigned land and/or forests for growing industrial plants, fruit trees, specialty trees, herbal plants and forestrial production shall enjoy the policy stipulated by the Prime Minister in his Decision No. 661/1998/QD-TTg of July 29, 1998 on the "objectives, tasks, policy and organization of the implementation of the Project to plant five million hectares of new forests".
d/ The national target programs and relevant programs within the areas should give priority to investment in this program. The households covered by this program shall be given priority to borrow capital from the bank for the poor and other preferential credit sources for production development.
e/ The presidents of the People's Committees of the provinces covered by this program shall concentrate on directing and mobilizing various local resources for the program implementation. Apart from the source of investment capital for the overall development of the whole region, the State shall also give financial support for performing the following tasks:
- Building of the centers of commune clusters, which shall be financed by the capital source of the national program on hunger elimination and poverty alleviation.
- Development of the traffic network: each district shall be provided with one bulldozer, one rear-dump truck and one road-roller. The State shall provide explosives, cement, steel and iron for building subterranean passage, bridges, culverts as well as food for the construction of rural roads.
- Construction of power projects: in areas where conditions permit, the State shall support the investment in building the electric transmission lines to the centers of commune clusters according to the planning and the investment capability in each period. In areas where conditions permit the construction of mini-hydro-electric projects, the State shall support the inhabitants part of the expenditures and lend credits for development investment.
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g/ The State encourages the establishment of inter- family terms or groups for mutual assistance in production and daily life, and efficient use of rural credit sources.
h/ The people in communes with special difficulties shall enjoy free health-care and medical treatment at State medical establishments under Decree No. 95-CP of August 27, 1994 of the Government.
3. Human resource development policies:
a/ The State shall allocate funding for the training and fostering of cadres for mountainous and rural communes, villages and hamlets so as to raise their capability of organization and direction, production management, administrative management and the capability of managing and using rural credit sources to meet the local socio-economic development requirements.
b/ Pupils in communes with special difficulties who go to school shall be provided with textbooks, stationery and exempt from school fees.
c/ In each of communes with special difficulties under the program, several farmers' households which achieve good production results shall be selected for training in skills to conduct the agricultural and forestrial production promotion work in the localities and enjoy allowances from the funding for agricultural and forestrial promotion work.
d/ The State shall allocate funding for opening job training courses for ethnic minority children so as to tap local potentials, develop non-agricultural production and business lines for the purpose of income generation and improvement of the living standards.
4. Tasks of various levels and branches and support and contributions of individuals and organizations inside and outside the country for the program implementation:
- The steering committee for the program implementation shall discuss in detail with the provinces and cities directly under the Central Government where conditions permit, which, in the immediate future are Ha Noi, Hai Phong, Quang Ninh, Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai, Ba Ria - Vung Tau, Da Nang and Khanh Hoa, and assign them to directly assist a number of communes targeted by the program, focusing on such contents as giving financial support for the infrastructure construction, mobilizing their local cadres to visit and assist these communes...
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- To assign the Ministry of Defense to build new economic zones in areas where condition permit, sponsor and receive about 100,000 households to settle down in waste land areas, border and island areas.
- The State shall encourage socio-political organizations, socio-professional organizations and people of all strata throughout the country as well as overseas Vietnamese to support and assist the implementation of this program.
5. Tax policies
Trading in agricultural and forestrial products and goods catering for production and life of the inhabitants in communes with special difficulties shall be entitled to preferential tax policies as stipulated in Decree No. 20/1998/ND-CP of March 31, 1998 of the Government and other tax policies which promote investment in accordance with current regulations.
Article 3.- Capital sources and their use
1. The investment capital for implementing the program shall be mobilized from the following sources:
- The State budget capital (including the capital donated by foreign governments and international organizations).
- Credit loans.
- Capital mobilized from organizations and population communities.
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Article 4.- Organization of implementation
1. The Central Steering Committee for the "Program on the socio-economic Development in mountainous, deep-lying and remote communes with special difficulties" shall direct the ministries and functional branches to implement the program according to their respective functions and tasks and direct the provincial boards for the program implementation and management to formulate specific projects then submit them to the competent branches and levels for evaluation and approval according to current regulations, and make annual plans and organize the effective implementation of these projects in the provinces.
2. The annual plans on the program implementation shall be drawn up by the provincial People's Committees as a separate part of the socio-economic development plans of the provinces and submitted to the Government. The Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, the concerned ministries and branches and the Central Steering Committee for the Program on the socio-economic development in mountainous, deep-lying and remote communes with special difficulties shall base themselves on their respective functions and tasks to submit to the Prime Minister for decision the investment capital allocated for the program, which shall be included separately in the annual plans of the localities and managed and used by the localities for the right purpose and target beneficiaries and in conformity with the plans so as to ensure the effective implementation of the program.
THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
Phan Van Khai
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Ordinal number
Names of provinces
Names of districts
Number of communes
Number of households
Number of inhabitants
(1)
(2)
(3)
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(5)
(6)
1
Ha Giang
8 districts
117
44,464
276,589
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1.1 Meo vac
15
7,004
44,838
1.2 Dong Van
17
7,244
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1.3 Yen Minh
14
5,916
38,304
1.4 Quan Ba
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3,557
21,737
1.5 Hoang Su Phi
25
7,755
50,004
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1.6 Xin Man
17
5,941
35,908
1.7 Bac Me
10
3,477
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1.8 Vi Xuyen
9
3,570
19,096
2
Cao Bang
10 districts
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38,768
233,782
2.1 Bao Lac
15
7,320
49,060
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2.2 Ha Lang
10
3,406
18,943
2.3 Thong Nong
6
1,783
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2.4 Nguyen Binh
13
3,879
25,796
2.5 Ha Quang
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3,584
21,142
2.6 Tra Linh
5
1,338
7,760
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2.7 Trung Khanh
10
4,855
26,474
2.8 Quang Hoa
13
5,526
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2.9 Thach An
9
2,878
15,619
2.10 Hoa An
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4,199
29,946
3
Lai Chau
7 districts
88
30,083
209,171
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3.1 Muong Te
16
4,072
27,816
3.2 Sin Ho
19
6,706
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3.3 Dien Bien Dong
9
3,581
28,810
3.4 Tua Chua
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3,255
23,615
3.5 Muong Lay
7
3,420
24,462
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3.6 Phong Tho
21
6,839
44,105
3.7 Tuan Giao
7
2,210
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4
Son La
7 districts
52
24,142
168,812
4.1 Song Ma
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6,685
48,219
4.2 Thuan Chau
12
5,618
41,603
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4.3 Bac Yen
5
1,543
10,368
4.4 Muong La
6
2,513
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4.5 Phu Yen
5
1,668
12,346
4.6 Moc Chau
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3,448
20,749
4.7 Quynh Nhai
4
2,667
18,793
5
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5 districts
84
28,058
146,054
5.1 Ba Be
16
5,453
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5.2 Ngan Son
5
1,871
10,579
5.3 Na Ri
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5,936
32,716
5.4 Cho Don
21
7,508
27,161
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5.5 Bach Thong
21
7,290
41,207
6
Lao Cai
7 districts
115
39,918
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6.1 Bac Ha
31
9,840
60,839
6.2 Sa Pa
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4,412
31,018
6.3 Bat Xat
17
5,115
33,934
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6.4 Than Uyen
12
5,989
43,847
6.5 Muong Khuong
13
4,695
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6.6 Van Ban
15
4,538
31,142
6.7 Bao Yen
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5,329
31,094
7
Kon Tum
4 districts
24
8,590
44,028
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7.1 Dakglei
7
2,541
12,398
7.2 Dakto
7
2,030
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7.3 Kon Plon
6
2,585
14,091
7.4 Sa Thay
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1,434
7,063
Total
7 provinces
48 districts
586
214,023
1,341,349
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LIST OF PROVINCES THAT HAVE KEY DISTRICTS WITH SPECIAL DIFFICULTIES
Ordinal number
Names of provinces
Names of districts
Number of communes
Number of households
Number of inhabitants
(1)
(2)
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(4)
(5)
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1
Tuyen Quang
2 districts
35
19,971
113,645
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1.1 Na Hang
20
8,835
54,921
1.2 Chiem Hoa
15
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58,724
2
Lang Son
2 districts
17
5,305
32,324
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7
2,307
13,140
2.2 Binh Gia
10
2,998
19,184
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Yen Bai
2 districts
24
6,034
44,472
3.1 Mu Cang Chai
13
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29,670
3.2 Tram Tau
11
2,221
14,802
4
Hoa Binh
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24
7,721
49,599
4.1 Da Bac
16
5,418
35,186
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4.2 Mai Chau
8
2,303
14,413
5
Thanh Hoa
3 districts
25
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75,589
5.1 Muong Lat
6
2,995
20,553
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12
5,677
30,515
5.3 Quan Son
7
3,342
24,521
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Nghe An
3 districts
49
20,023
136,581
6.1 Ky Son
20
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49,982
6.2 Que Phong
10
5,136
34,587
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19
8,539
52,012
7
Quang Binh
2 districts
18
8,059
47,417
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7.1 Minh Hoa
11
4,683
26,687
7.2 Tuyen Hoa
7
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20,730
8
Quang Tri
2 districts
18
4,249
25,112
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13
3,215
18,993
8.2 Dak Rong
5
1,034
6,119
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Thua Thien-Hue
2 districts
15
3,391
20,045
8.1 A Luoi
11
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14,505
8.2 Nam Dong
4
995
5,540
10
Quang Nam
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32
8,455
39,242
10.1 Hien
16
3,611
12,117
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10.2 Giang
8
1,927
11,315
10.3 Phuoc Son
8
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15,810
11
Quang Ngai
2 districts
19
5,824
33,657
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4
2,128
13,600
11.2 Tuyen Hoa
15
3,696
20,057
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Binh Dinh
2 districts
12
4,137
21,519
12.1 An Lao
7
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7,947
12.2 Vinh Thanh
5
2,646
13,572
13
Phu Yen
...
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5
1,881
10,525
13.1 Son Hoa
5
1,881
10,525
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Ninh Thuan
1 district
11
3,736
21,344
14.1 Ninh Son
11
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21,344
15
Gia Lai
2 districts
14
5,525
33,709
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6
2,088
13,063
15.2 Krong Pa
8
3,437
20,646
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Daklak
2 districts
7
1,855
11,103
16.1 Dak Nong
4
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5,181
16.2 Krong No
3
1,030
5,922
17
Lam Dong
...
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5
2,582
15,784
17.1 Lac Duong
5
2,582
15,784
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Binh Phuoc
1 district
2
1,467
7,416
18.1 Bu Dang
2
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7,416
19
Bac Giang
1 district
14
6,500
37,728
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14
6,500
37,728
20
Thai Nguyen
1 district
11
6,162
34,408
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20.1 Vo Nhai
11
6,162
34,408
21
Phu Tho
2 districts
31
...
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91,843
21.1 Yen Lap
12
8,968
46,549
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19
7,932
45,294
22
Tra Vinh
2 districts
13
29,495
157,545
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22.1 Tra Cu
9
20,707
108,136
22.2 Chau Thanh
4
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49,409
23
Soc Trang
2 districts
13
27,493
171,889
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5
10,835
57,566
23.2 Vinh Chau
8
16,658
114,323
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23 provinces
43 districts
414
208,779
1,232,496
- 1Decision No.42/2001/QD-TTg, promulgated by the Prime Minister of Government, adding the communes meeting with special difficulties under the Program for socio-economic development in communes facing special difficulties, in mountainous, border, deep-lying and remote regions inhabited by ethnic minority people (Program 135).
- 2Decision No.138/2000/QD-TTg of November 29, 2000 on the integration of The Sedentariza-Tion Project, the project on support of ethnic minority people meeting with special difficulties, the program on building the centers of mountainous and highland commune clusters into the program on socio-economic development of mountainous, deep-lying and remote communes meeting with great difficulties
- 1Decision No.42/2001/QD-TTg, promulgated by the Prime Minister of Government, adding the communes meeting with special difficulties under the Program for socio-economic development in communes facing special difficulties, in mountainous, border, deep-lying and remote regions inhabited by ethnic minority people (Program 135).
- 2Joint circular No. 416/1999/TTLT/BKH-UBDTMN-TC-XD of April 29, 1999, guiding the investment and construction management of infrastructure projects in mountainous, deep-lying and far-flung communes which meet with great difficulties
- 3Decision No. 661/QD-TTg of July 29 1998, on objectives, tasks, policies and organization for the establishment of five million hectares of new forest
- 4Decree No. 20/1998/ND-CP of March 31, 1998, on developing commerce in mountain areas, on offshore islands and in ethnic minority regions
- 5Decree of Government No.95-CP, on collection of partial hospital fee.
Decision No. 135/1998/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister of Government, approving the program on socio-economic development in mountainous, deep-lying and remote com-munes with special difficulties
- Số hiệu: 135/1998/QD-TTg
- Loại văn bản: Quyết định
- Ngày ban hành: 31/07/1998
- Nơi ban hành: Thủ tướng Chính phủ
- Người ký: Phan Văn Khải
- Ngày công báo: Đang cập nhật
- Số công báo: Đang cập nhật
- Ngày hiệu lực: 15/08/1998
- Tình trạng hiệu lực: Còn hiệu lực