According to the report by the Department of Finance under the Ministry of National Defense (MND), realizing Defense Minister’s direction, units have reviewed and adjusted the management and use of budgets for works and projects to serve local military and defense task performance. They have also immediately stopped the construction of provincial and district-level projects and commune-level headquarters.

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Deputy Defense Minister Sr. Lt. Gen. Vu Hai San addressing the working session

In terms of barrack management and use, the Department of Barracks under the General Department of Logistics-Technical Services proposed that the surplus barracks of provincial military commands after the merger would be transferred to units under the new organizational structure. Accordingly, they can be used as social housing or transferred to localities for management to serve socio-economic development. Barracks of district military commands would be allocated for newly-established units under the project on building local military organizations and units under the new organizational structure in the stationed localities. In case of no longer having a need to use, the barracks would be transferred to localities to serve local socio-economic development.

Concluding the working session, Gen. San asked MND’s functional agencies to continue double-checking projects and structures in terms of progress, quantity, and scale, particularly projects in provinces to be merged and make reports and proposals to the MND.

The defense leader asked for prompt review, approval, paper completion and project settlement reports for completed structures which were invested to serve local military and defense missions. He requested units to proactively work with localities on investment projects using their budget to ensure their progress, avoiding outstanding debt.

Gen. San also made request on reasonable and synchronous arrangement of barracks basing on demands of provincial military commands after merger.

Translated by Mai Huong