The recent historic flood caused great damage to many properties and constructions of localities in the province. According to statistics from the Office of the Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Search and Rescue, the flood killed 5 people, damaged more than 20,000 houses, isolated over 5,300 houses, and urgently evacuated over 5,000 households; damaged over 5,000 hectares of rice, nearly 2,000 hectares of corn, vegetables, 500 hectares of annual crops, 660 hectares of fruit trees, over 650 hectares of forestry trees, over 1,500 livestock, over 7,500 poultry, along with many traffic infrastructure works, bridges, factories, schools, and agency headquarters... The total estimated damage was over 1,200 billion VND.
In Yen Son district, on September 12, when the flood was still raging, Agribank leaders directly presented money to share the difficulties with the affected people. Comrade Nguyen Huu Phuong, Chairman of Yen Son District People's Committee shared: Up to now, people have been carrying out activities to overcome the consequences of the flood, but it is indeed difficult, especially for people's livelihoods after the flood, repairing houses. Because currently, in some localities, many houses have been severely damaged and are difficult to repair.
Therefore, the help and support of Agribank in particular and organizations, individuals and businesses will be a great source of encouragement for the district to support the affected people to overcome difficulties and quickly stabilize their lives. It is known that in addition to 110 million VND given to the district, Agribank also gave gifts to individuals severely affected by the flood.
Agribank leaders give support to Yen Son district to overcome the consequences of natural disasters caused by storms and floods.
In Ham Yen district, the Agribank delegation directly supported the district with 110 million VND. Mr. Tran Van Du, Deputy General Director of Agribank affirmed: Money and gifts were mobilized from contributions of all union members, officials and employees in the Agribank system. The Agribank collective wishes to send to the flood victims their concern and sharing in difficult times.
Along with the emergency social security programs, the entire Agribank system coordinated with local authorities to continue implementing the program of "eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses", building "Houses of Great Unity", "More letters, less poverty", "Supporting people to go to school"; Program of giving social insurance books and health insurance cards to people in difficult circumstances. In the first half of September alone, Agribank Tuyen Quang branch spent nearly 200 million VND to implement social security policies.
In addition to social security activities, Agribank continues to effectively maintain business plans, drastically implement solutions to carry out assigned political tasks in the past time and has achieved many positive results in all aspects of operation. In the past time, Agribank has proactively and flexibly provided credit capital for the economy and served production and business activities, focusing on 3 main growth drivers: consumption, export, investment and prioritizing 5 key areas including export, agriculture, high technology, small and medium enterprises, supporting industry.
In particular, since the beginning of 2024, Agribank has implemented many solutions to increase access to capital and promote credit growth, including proactively adjusting lending interest rates and implementing credit programs with a total scale of thousands of billions of VND with preferential interest rates to encourage and support customers to use capital.
Implementing Resolution No. 143/NQ-CP on key tasks and solutions to urgently overcome the consequences of storm No. 3, quickly stabilize the people's situation, promote production and business recovery, actively promote economic growth, and control inflation well, Agribank applies a policy of reducing lending interest rates for customers suffering losses in provinces and cities directly affected by storm No. 3 and post-storm floods. Accordingly, for existing outstanding loans (including VND and USD) as of September 6, 2024, based on the level of damage of customers, Agribank will reduce from 0.5% to 2%/year of lending interest rates and waive 100% of overdue interest and late payment interest during the period from September 6 to December 31, 2024.
In addition, to support customers to stabilize their lives and restore production and business activities, for new loans arising from September 6 to December 31, 2024, Agribank will reduce the lending interest rate by 0.5% per year for each subject and sector, applicable for a maximum period of 6 months from the date of disbursement. Mr. Tran Van Du, Deputy General Director of Agribank, said: In the immediate future, Agribank requires branches to compile a list, assess the level of damage of customers, from which there will be plans to restructure debt, extend debt, reduce interest...; issue credit packages with reasonable interest rates and reasonable scale to accompany people and businesses to recover after the storm.
With responsibility to the community and proactive and flexible implementation of credit policy solutions, Agribank further strengthens customers' trust in a bank for the community.
Source: https://baotuyenquang.com.vn/agribank-chung-tay-vi-cong-dong-199020.html
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