Need to 'order' the Fatherland Front to supervise in a unified, focused and key manner
Supervision is one of the important functions and tasks of the Vietnam Fatherland Front. For this activity to be effective, it is argued that every year, the Party and the Vietnam Fatherland Front at higher levels need to "order" the Vietnam Fatherland Front to conduct unified, focused, and key supervision, contributing to resolving people's concerns and effectively participating in Party and government building.
Transformation from the grassroots
In Tay Hieu commune (Thai Hoa town), the contents selected by the Commune Fatherland Front to monitor come from the practice of listening to and grasping public opinion that still has questions, concerns, and reflections, while at the same time contributing to building a strong political system.
From that perspective, in recent times, the Fatherland Front of Tay Hieu commune has supervised the implementation of the action program of the People's Council delegates; supervised the implementation of the military service preliminary examination process according to the Law on Military Service; supervised the performance of assigned duties and tasks of commune officials and civil servants, especially civil servants at the "one-stop" department, civil servants in charge of granting Land Use Right Certificates to people.
The Fatherland Front of Tay Hieu commune also supervises the settlement of petitions, reflections and proposals of the people through dialogue conferences between the heads of Party committees and authorities with the people and through meetings with voters of elected representatives; supervises the implementation of a number of policies related to the people; on budget revenue and expenditure...
Comrade Nguyen Xuan Hai - Chairman of the Fatherland Front Committee of Tay Hieu commune, said: Through monitoring the implementation of the action program of the People's Council delegates committed during the election campaign, it has been clear which delegates are active and which delegates are not, especially following up and urging the implementation of the recommendations of voters in their constituencies... After monitoring, the awareness and responsibility of the People's Council delegates have increased, they have a spirit of participation and more clearly express their political opinions at forums and meetings of the People's Council. In monitoring the implementation of duties and responsibilities, especially in the field of granting Land Use Right Certificates to people, there is more transparency in the procedures, the time of receiving and returning results is done by appointment slips "white paper, black ink" clearly, avoiding the case of "soaking" documents, which can easily lead to negativity...
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In Nghia Hong commune (Nghia Dan district), the issue that the commune Fatherland Front prioritizes to monitor is related to projects and tasks from people's contributions. Including monitoring the implementation of projects from socialized income from parents, such as building water parks and mobile shelters at kindergartens; elementary school grounds and landscapes; investing in upgrading commune health stations; inter-commune and inter-village traffic projects...
Sharing the reason for choosing the content of supervision, comrade Truong Thi Luu - Chairman of Nghia Hong Commune People's Committee, said: "The common psychology of the people is that the money they "squeeze" and contribute also hopes to be used for the right purpose, promoting efficiency and the Fatherland Front is the representative organization, on behalf of the people to do that. The supervision activities of the Fatherland Front are from the time of deployment and during the implementation process until the completion of the project. Therefore, investors and construction units are very careful in building designs, estimating costs and choosing quality materials and construction, preventing the mobilization of parents to contribute to one content but "editing" the documents for another."
The general mentality of the people is that the money they “sparedly” contributed also hopes to be used for the right purpose and to promote efficiency. The Fatherland Front is a representative organization, on behalf of the people, to supervise and respond to the people's wishes.
Comrade Truong Thi Luu - Chairman of People's Committee of Nghia Hong Commune (Nghia Dan District)
Acknowledging the effectiveness of the supervision of the Commune Fatherland Front, teacher Dang Thi Phuong - Vice Principal of Nghia Hong Kindergarten affirmed: It is the close supervision of the Fatherland Front that has promoted the value of the project, while strengthening the trust and readiness of the people when the school has a policy of socialization to serve the needs of their children.
In addition, the monitoring activities of the Fatherland Front of Nghia Hong commune also showed flexibility, when in Hong Phuc hamlet, during the campaigns to contribute to the Fund for the Poor, Tet for the Poor or support for floods..., although the number of households is large, the contribution level is lower than the average level of hamlets in the commune, the Fatherland Front of the commune has conducted monitoring. Through monitoring, the Fatherland Front of the commune also saw that the mobilization process was implemented and revenue and expenditure were managed methodically; however, in the hamlet, about 1/3 of the households are cadres, workers of companies, farms and schools, they participate in contributions at the units so the mobilization level in the hamlet is low.
Promote initiative on both sides
Supervision is an important function and task of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations, which is specifically regulated by the Politburo in Decision No. 217/QD-TW, dated December 12, 2013. At the same time, in implementing policies, resolutions, directives, projects and regulations of the Party at all levels, the supervisory role of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations is set out. Therefore, this is a task that the Fatherland Front from the province to the grassroots level in Nghe An is interested in implementing.
The content of supervision by the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations at all levels closely follows the reality of life to monitor in depth the practical issues raised. In 2024 alone, all levels in the province organized 5,537 thematic supervisions; of which the Provincial Fatherland Front organized 4 supervisions, including supervising the responsibility of the Chairman of the People's Committee at all levels in receiving citizens, handling complaints and denunciations of the People in conjunction with the implementation of Decision 124, dated August 2, 2018 of the Secretariat; supervising the contact, dialogue and implementation of conclusions of the heads of Party committees and authorities at all levels after contact and dialogue with the People in the province; supervising the implementation of the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; supervising the implementation of focused human resource development and building a team of ethnic minority cadres.
Comrade Nguyen Duc Thanh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province: Through the monitoring activities of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations, many inadequacies, limitations and shortcomings in the implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies and the State's laws have been promptly discovered to make recommendations and proposals to Party committees and authorities at all levels for consideration and adjustment. More importantly, monitoring activities also contribute to promoting the people's mastery, promoting transparency, improving the operational efficiency of the entire political system, meeting the requirements of innovation and strong development of the country in the current period.
Supervision by the Vietnam Fatherland Front is an activity to promote people's mastery, promote transparency, improve the efficiency of the political system, and meet the requirements of innovation and strong development of the country in the current period.
Comrade Nguyen Duc Thanh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province
Besides the effectiveness and positive impacts; the monitoring activities of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations also pose difficulties and shortcomings. Such as the wide scope of monitoring but limited resources and human resources; some places have not really promoted the proactive role, still focusing on formalities. On the part of the Party Committee and the government, some places have not had full, profound, comprehensive awareness and proper attention to the monitoring activities of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations.
On the other hand, the reception and handling of recommendations after supervision is still slow and not synchronous. These shortcomings have been clearly recognized by the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee and have issued Regulation No. 54, dated August 7, 2024, on the responsibilities of Party committees, Party organizations, and authorities in ensuring the implementation of regulations on supervision, social criticism, and regulations on participation in giving opinions on Party building and government building of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in the province.
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Along with strictly implementing Regulation No. 54 of the Standing Committee, Comrade Nguyen Xuan Hai - Chairman of the Fatherland Front Committee of Tay Hieu commune said: In addition to the initiative and flexibility of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations based on local realities; every year, the Party, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and the province need to orient, assign tasks or "order" the Fatherland Front system and socio-political organizations on monitoring contents, creating unified monitoring between levels and localities to solve common problems or prevent from afar, early on, possible limitations and negativity. When there is initiative from both sides, the quality and effectiveness of monitoring will be higher.
For the activities of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations to be highly effective, in addition to the initiative of the supervisory unit, there needs to be guidance and "orders" from the Party and the Vietnam Fatherland Front at higher levels.
Comrade Nguyen Xuan Hai - Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Tay Hieu commune (Thai Hoa town)
Proposing on specific issues related to the supervision of cadres and civil servants, comrade Pham Thi Toan - Chairman of the Fatherland Front Committee of Thanh Qua commune (Thanh Chuong district) suggested: The Central Government should issue regulations that in the cadre work process, there must be reports from the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations. Along with that, it is necessary to strengthen training, fostering, exchanging experiences, equipping knowledge and supervision skills for the team of cadres of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations at all levels.
