The Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee thoroughly grasped the establishment of the Provincial Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption and negativity.

Panorama of the conference at the main bridge of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy

"UNITY FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, CLEARANCE ACROSS"

At the 5th Central Conference (13th tenure), the Party Central Committee highly agreed on the policy of establishing a provincial-level Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption and negativity; in order to create stronger changes, further enhance the effectiveness and efficiency in the work of preventing and combating corruption from the central to local levels.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Steering Committee of Nghe An province on anti-corruption and negativity delivered the opening speech at the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

On June 2, 2022, the Secretariat issued Regulation No. 67-QD/TW on the functions, tasks, powers, organizational structure, working regime, and working relations of the Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption and Negativity of provinces and centrally run cities.

On June 30, 2022, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee issued Decision No. 1150-QD/TU to establish the Provincial Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption and Negative Activities, consisting of 15 comrades, with 1 head, 5 deputy heads (1 standing deputy head) and 9 members. In early July, the Nghe An Provincial Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption and Negative Activities held its first meeting.

Leaders of Nghe An province attended the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

Speaking at the opening of the conference, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy - Head of the Steering Committee emphasized that the conference was organized to create unity and synchronization in the awareness and actions of Party committees, authorities, socio-political organizations, cadres, party members and people in the whole province on the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity; supplement and raise awareness for cadres and party members about the Party's leadership of law enforcement agencies in investigating and handling cases and incidents.

At the same time, through the content presented by the reporters, delegates were updated with new knowledge, improved professional capacity, qualifications, and useful experience for consulting and directing the handling of cases and incidents related to corruption and negativity.

With the importance of the conference, the head of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee requested delegates at all points to focus on monitoring and participating seriously so that the conference achieves the highest quality.

Comrade Ho Le Ngoc - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Committee, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Nghe An Provincial Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption and negativity, thoroughly grasped the establishment of the Provincial Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption and negativity. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the conference, comrade Ho Le Ngoc - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Committee, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Nghe An Provincial Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption and negativity, thoroughly grasped 4 contents related to the necessity of establishment; the process of building and approving the project to establish the Provincial Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption and negativity; functions, tasks, scope of direction, working rules, working relationships of the Steering Committee; activities of the Nghe An Provincial Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption and negativity since the decision to establish it up to now.

The Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Committee affirmed: The establishment of the Provincial Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption and negativity with the organizational model, functions, tasks and powers according to Regulation No. 67-QD/TW is extremely necessary, helping to resolutely and synchronously implement the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity throughout the Party, the entire people, the entire army, from the Central to the local level in the spirit of "unanimity from top to bottom, consistency across the board".

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Truong - Head of Department 1 of the Central Internal Affairs Committee, conducted a training session on a number of issues related to the prevention and fight against corruption and negativity. Photo: Thanh Duy

The conference also listened to comrade Nguyen Xuan Truong - Head of Department 1 of the Central Internal Affairs Committee, give a training session on a number of issues related to the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity.

MASTER THE 4 PRINCIPLES OF ACTION

In his concluding remarks, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Thai Thanh Quy - Head of the Steering Committee of Nghe An province on anti-corruption and negativity emphasized that the contents conveyed at the conference were very important, necessary and specific, therefore, it is necessary to seriously absorb, apply and deploy uniformly and synchronously throughout the province.

In recent times, the work of preventing and combating corruption in the province has achieved many important results; thereby, actively contributing to ensuring security, order, social safety and creating a favorable environment and conditions for socio-economic development, contributing to strengthening people's trust in the leadership of the Party and the regime.

Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy concluded the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

However, in addition to the achieved results, the Provincial Party Secretary assessed that there are still limitations and shortcomings; in which, the change and effectiveness of anti-corruption work in some localities and units are not high; some preventive solutions lack unity and synchronization. Self-detection for timely correction and handling in many localities, agencies and units is still very little, but must be done through public opinion, press, complaints and denunciations; somewhere there is still lax management, causing loss of State and people's assets in some sensitive areas such as: bidding, auction; land, resource and mineral management.

In particular, through the province's recent drastic direction in handling the situation, it can be seen that petty corruption, harassment, and trouble for people and the business community still occur in some localities, units, at some stages, and at some levels.

Provincial leaders and the Central Internal Affairs Committee attended the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

According to the Provincial Party Secretary, the core reason is still due to the awareness of the Party's leadership in the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity, which is sometimes and in some places not good; the consulting, directing and handling, especially cases and incidents related to corruption and negativity, is still very limited because of not having a firm grasp and not having full awareness.

On the other hand, the above limitations and shortcomings also come from the objective cause that for a long time there has not been a strong enough unified steering agency at the provincial level to advise the Standing Committee, the Standing Provincial Party Committee, and the Party Committee to implement the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity.

Through pointing out the shortcomings and limitations, analyzing the causes, in the coming time, to ensure the most effective work in preventing and combating corruption and negativity in the province, especially after the establishment of the Provincial Steering Committee, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy noted that the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity must be considered a regular, long-term and continuous task; the head of the Party Committee must take responsibility.

To do so, it is necessary to raise awareness through increased propaganda, building a culture of thrift and integrity among cadres and civil servants, especially leaders; associated with continuing to promote studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle; fighting against ideological, moral and lifestyle degradation, self-transformation and self-transformation.

Leaders of provincial, district, city and municipal departments and branches attended the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

In particular, through propaganda work, cadres, party members and people can see that strict disciplinary action against cadres and party members who violate the law is not an obstacle that slows down the development process, but on the contrary, according to the Party's viewpoint, it helps to further clean up the apparatus and rectify the cadre team to serve the development process.

At the same time, it is also necessary to propagate to create unity and synchronization in awareness that, along with strict handling, it is necessary to gradually research, build and implement a mechanism to protect and encourage dynamic, creative cadres and party members who dare to think, dare to do, and dare to take responsibility as the policy has been clearly stated in the Resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Party.

The head of the Provincial Party Committee also noted the need to actively promote good people and good deeds; overcome and strictly handle inaccurate information, even information that is provocative, misleading, slanderous, and fabricated.

Along with the above tasks, to raise awareness of the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity, the Provincial Party Secretary also noted a number of specific and key tasks in the coming time. Accordingly, it is necessary to conduct a review and promptly detect loopholes in the process of implementing policies serving the development process, especially in sensitive areas such as: bidding, auction; use, management of land, resources, minerals, finance, public assets and personnel work to promptly overcome according to authority, or make recommendations to central ministries and branches; thereby, avoiding being exploited to commit acts of corruption and negativity.

Leaders of provincial, district, city and municipal departments and branches attended the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

In addition, strengthen inspection, examination and supervision of sensitive areas for early and remote prevention; speed up the investigation and handling of corruption and negative cases in accordance with Party regulations and laws; focus on reviewing and detecting cases and incidents related to corruption and negative that the public is interested in, concerned about and upset about, and put under the supervision of the Provincial Steering Committee.

Also at the conference, on behalf of the provincial leaders, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy praised the spirit of some units that have recently boldly directly confronted and stepped up the handling of corruption and negativity such as Thai Hoa town, Yen Thanh district... Thereby, he requested to continue to strictly handle acts of corruption, negativity and corrupt and negative cadres and party members; at the same time, the Party Committee needs to listen thoroughly to have a clear leadership perspective, in accordance with the law, and with empathy and reason for creative, dynamic cadres who dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, are impartial, pure, and not self-serving if violations occur.

The head of the Provincial Party Committee also requested to continue to resolutely arrange and streamline the apparatus, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the operations of agencies in the Internal Affairs Sector such as: Police, People's Procuracy, People's Court, Inspection Committee, Internal Affairs Committee; at the same time, at the district level, pay attention to researching and building a team of monitoring and advising staff so that the implementation of anti-corruption and negativity work takes place systematically and effectively.

On the other hand, it is necessary to strictly implement the reception of people according to Regulation No. 11-QDi/TW of the Politburo on the responsibility of the head of the Party Committee in receiving people, directly dialogue with people and handling people's reflections and recommendations; thereby, listening, dialogue, persuading, mobilizing people; resolving issues right at the grassroots level.

Leaders of provincial, district, city and municipal departments and branches attended the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

In order for the Nghe An Provincial Steering Committee on anti-corruption and negativity to operate effectively, the Provincial Party Secretary requested the Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Committee - the standing agency of the Steering Committee to continue to improve the system of documents; at the same time, review sensitive and complicated cases and incidents that the public is interested in to advise the Provincial Steering Committee to consider putting them under monitoring; advise on the establishment of inspection and supervision teams of the Steering Committee for agencies, units and localities in the implementation of anti-corruption and negativity work.

Before concluding the conference, giving a message to the delegates at the main bridge and more than 8,000 delegates attending at more than 400 bridges across the province, the Secretary of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee emphasized the motto: "Awareness must be mature; ideology must be clear, determination must be great and methods must be correct" so that the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity in the province in the coming time will achieve good results according to the requirements of the Central Government, the wishes of the Party Committee and the people of the province, because this is a difficult and sensitive task that must be carried out regularly and for a long time.