Decision 444/TTg

Decision No.444-TTg of June 20, 1997 on the establishment of the Management Board of the National Program for Automation.

The Management Board of the National Program for Automation shall assist the Prime Minister in implementing Resolution No.27-CP of March 28, 1997 of the Government on the application and development of automation technology in service of the national industrialization and modernization.

The Program Management Board shall be composed of the Minister of Industry as its Chairman; a Vice Minister of Science, Technology and Environment as its Vice Chairman, a representative of the Ministry of Industry as its Secretary; and representatives of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Communication and Transport, the Vietnam Association of Automatic Science and Technology and the Post and Telecommunications Corporation as its member.

The Program Management Board shall have the following tasks and powers: to draw up the strategy for the automation development, a phased long-term plan and annual plans for implementation of the National Program for Automation and submit them to the Prime Minister for approval; to organize and direct the implementation of the national program for automation in accordance with Decision 531-TTg of August 8, 1996 of the Prime Minister on the management of the national programs; to coordinate with the functional agencies in evaluating, approving, allocating funds, and monitoring, guiding and supervising the execution of projects involved in the program; to be entitled to make suggestions to the ministries, branches and localities on the organization of the implementation of projects under the program; to submit to the Prime Minister for resolution problems arising in the course of implementation of the program; to coordinate with the concerned agencies in working out policies, regimes and measures for implementation of the program and submit them to the Prime Minister for promulgation.-