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MPI PLANS TO CONDUCT 34 INSPECTIONS IN 2022
Key infrastructure and transport projects are the most important objects of the inspection plan of the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) next year.
In its newly-issued inspection plan for 2022, the transportation projects that the MPI plans to inspect next year are component projects of the North-South Expressway in the east (running across Ninh Binh, Binh Thuan, Vinh Long, and Tien Giang provinces) and the project on upgrading the system of runways and taxiways at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City; the highway projects connecting Hanoi-Haiphong and Cau Gie-Ninh Binh in the two provinces of Hung Yen and Ha Nam.
The ministry will inspect legal compliance at public investment projects in 2016-2020, investment in public-private partnership projects, the implementation of the Law on Investment in 2016-2020 in the six provinces of Hoa Binh, Binh Dinh, Cao Bang, Thanh Hoa, Thua Thien Hue, and Tuyen Quang.
The MPI also plans to conduct two administrative inspections. The first one will be an inspection of the management and use of assets and finance; emulation and commendation; the Institute for Development Strategy's compliance with the laws on citizen reception, complaint, and denunciation settlement, anti-corruption prevention and control, thrift practice, and anti-wastefulness in 2020-2021.
The second one is the inspection of the management and use of assets and capital; management and employment of civil servants and signing of labour contracts; emulation and commendation; the observance of legal regulations on citizen reception, settlement of complaints and denunciations, prevention and combat of corruption at the Statistics Department of Nam Dinh province in 2020-2021.
The MPI also plans to conduct an inspection of monitoring, urging and inspecting the implementation of inspection conclusions on development investment in 2018-2020 in a number of localities.
According to the plan, the MPI will conduct three inspections of the issuance of guiding documents, organisation of the implementation of the Law on Bidding in three provinces (Quang Ninh, Quang Tri, and Binh Thuan); as well as inspecting compliance with the laws on investment, public investment, and bidding in 2015-2020 at Vietnam Tobacco Corporation and Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam).
The MPI is also planning to conduct three general inspections in Hau Giang, Lao Cai, and Gia Lai provinces; check the operation and development of industrial parks in Bac Giang and Bac Ninh provinces; inspect the implementation of the law on public investment and national reserves in 2018-2022 at national reserve projects in the Central and Central Highlands regions.
In 2022, the General Statistics Office under the MPI will conduct two inspections on the implementation of the population change and family planning survey plan on April 1, 2022 at the Statistics Departments of Hung Yen and Long An provinces; and two inspections on the enterprise survey plan in 2022 at the Statistical Departments of Lao Cai and Quang Ngai provinces.
Source: VIR
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