The provincial department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs just chaired a census on local poor and sub-poor households in 2011-2015 period. As planned, the census has taken place from Sept. 29 to Nov. 30, 2010.

To issue new poverty line, the local People’s Committee just submitted local new poverty line to the local party committee standing board. Accordingly, a rural household with an income of less VND800,000 per capita per month and an urban family with an income of less VND1mil per capita per month are considered as poor households.

Under the new poverty line, the local rate of poverty household will be at 7% (15,037 poor households and 6,015 sub-poor ones). The local administration will make effort to decline 1.5% of poverty household per year and will no longer exist poverty households by 2015.

Reported by V.Son – Translated by A.C