Over VND50 bln for educating ethnic minority people
The Government will spend VND50 billion on programmes, policies and projects to enhance education for ethnic minority people as part of a recently approved ethnic affairs strategy until 2020.
Deputy Minister-Vice Chairman of the Government’s Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs Son Minh Thang told a seminar in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on July 1 that the strategy pays special attention to education and training development and improvement of human resources, especially ethnic minority people.
It also focuses on speeding up poverty reduction in combination with implementing social security policies and maintaining a great national unity bloc, he added.
Participations emphasized the need to boost socio-economic development and preserve the unique cultural identities of each ethnic group while expanding the teaching and learning of ethnic languages and attracting human resources for areas inhabited by ethnic minorities.