The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee outlined 8 key tasks of the transport sector in the coming time.

On the afternoon of April 18, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and the working delegation worked with the Department of Transport to evaluate the results of the sector's task implementation in the past time, and the key directions and tasks in the coming time.

Attending the meeting were comrades: Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies Bloc; leaders of relevant departments and branches.

Overview of the working session of Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung and the working delegation with the Department of Transport. Photo: Pham Bang

COMPREHENSIVE, SYNCHRONOUS, AND RESOLUTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF TASKS

At the working session, the working delegation agreed that in 2021 and the first quarter of 2022, the Department of Transport has directed the comprehensive, synchronous and drastic implementation of tasks and solutions to achieve the industry development plan goals. Thanks to that, the fields of state management from planning, planning, traffic construction quality management, traffic infrastructure management, transportation management, driver training and testing, vehicle inspection, traffic inspection, traffic safety and investment in traffic infrastructure development have all changed and achieved many positive results.

In 2021, the sector has proactively and actively advised the Provincial People's Council and Provincial People's Committee to issue many Resolutions, Decisions and plans to implement state management of transport in the area. Proactively worked with consulting units to coordinate the development of the Provincial Transport Planning topic integrated into the Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030 with a vision to 2050.

The appraisal of traffic works continues to be strengthened, the quality of appraisal is increasingly improved, after the appraisal, it reduced 88.5 billion VND (in 2021) and 23 billion VND (in the first quarter of 2022). The management of traffic infrastructure is strengthened with many synchronous solutions to improve the efficiency of exploiting the traffic infrastructure system.

Comrade Hoang Phu Hien - Director of the Department of Transport reported on the results of the sector's tasks in 2021, the first quarter of 2022 and key tasks in the coming time. Photo: Pham Bang

In the spirit of improving service quality, the Department has proactively coordinated with sectors and localities to create favorable conditions for transport business units to operate safely and effectively. Traffic inspection activities are regularly conducted, focusing on urgent issues that are of public concern and still exist in reality such as: operation of oversized and overloaded vehicles; passenger transport by bus and contract vehicles; violations of road traffic safety corridors; driver training, etc.

The Department has also proactively advised the Provincial People's Committee on ensuring traffic safety, focusing on handling black spots, eliminating self-opened railway crossings, thereby contributing to curbing traffic accidents on all three criteria. Administrative reform has been strengthened, the application of information technology in directing, operating and performing public duties has become increasingly stronger, creating convenience for people and businesses. The Department is currently implementing 114 administrative procedures, of which 68 are at level 4, 44 are at level 3 and 2 are at level 2. In the first quarter of 2022, it will continue to review and propose shortening the processing time for 50 administrative procedures.

In 2021 and the first quarter of 2022, although there are still many difficulties, the Department has made efforts to focus on overcoming them, advising the province, seeking the help of the Central Government, mobilizing and attracting capital, directing strongly, coordinating with all levels and sectors to deploy investment in the construction of a number of large, key projects, which are important to the socio-economic development of the province.

Leaders of the Provincial People's Committee, the Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies Bloc, departments and branches attended the working session. Photo: Pham Bang

Currently, there are 11 projects invested by the Department that are being implemented and newly started with a total investment of more than 10,347 billion VND. Among them, there are many key projects such as: Coastal road from Nghi Son (Thanh Hoa) to Cua Lo (Nghe An) section Km7-Km76; Traffic road connecting Vinh - Cua Lo (phase 2); Muong Xen - Ta Do - Khe Kien road; Traffic road connecting Vinh - Cua Lo (phase 2);... Up to now, about 65.6 km of road and 6 bridges have been basically completed, and 5 projects have been handed over and put into use.

However, the Department of Transport also frankly admitted that the progress of some basic construction works and periodic repairs is sometimes slow. Some damaged locations and sections on national highways and provincial roads have not been promptly repaired. The situation of "illegal vehicles", oversized and overloaded vehicles; sand, gravel and mineral exploitation on rivers affecting infrastructure... has not been thoroughly handled. There are still many problems in clearing violations of traffic safety corridors. The traffic safety situation is complicated. Quality management has changed but there are still some problems...

At the meeting, leaders of departments and branches gave many opinions on the coordination in performing tasks between branches. At the same time, they gave opinions on the recommendations and proposals of the Department of Transport in arranging capital sources, payroll, contract labor, office space, etc.

Comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Secretary of the Party Committee of Provincial Agencies spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Appreciating the role of direction, leadership as well as the Party building and administrative reform work of the Department of Transport achieved in the past time, comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Secretary of the Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies Bloc requested the Department to continue to promote the ethics, responsibility, and public service awareness of cadres, party members, and civil servants; strengthen the work of inspection, supervision, Party discipline and Party member discipline. On the other hand, the Department needs to continue to strengthen administrative reform, improve the satisfaction index of businesses and people.

Acknowledging the results, as well as pointing out some difficulties that the Department of Transport encountered, comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Department to do a good job of planning traffic infrastructure in conjunction with smart cities, and in conjunction with other infrastructure planning. In the task of ensuring the quality of traffic works, we must not be subjective, speed up the progress of key works. Pay attention to training and improving the quality of cadres and civil servants; arrange cadres in the right positions to have conditions to promote their strengths and abilities.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

8 KEY TASKS OF THE TRANSPORT INDUSTRY

Concluding the meeting, Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized the particularly important role of the transport sector in the socio-economic development of the province. Because Nghe An is one of the few localities in the country with all types of transport (road, rail, air, sea and inland waterway) on a large scale.

In recent times, although resources are still difficult and limited, investment in the transport infrastructure system has received great attention. In the 2016-2020 term, the proportion of investment from the budget for the transport sector accounted for 36.8% of the total investment capital; in the 2021-2025 term, it accounted for more than 54% of the total investment capital. This affirms that the transport sector has a very important impact on socio-economic development, attracting investment, meeting the trading needs of businesses, people's travel, contributing to ensuring national defense and security.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee concluded the working session. Photo: Pham Bang

Agreeing with the assessments of the industry's results in 2021 and the first quarter of 2022, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee further emphasized the industry's contributions to the prevention and control of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, investment in key transport infrastructure projects, disbursement of public investment capital, administrative reform, digital transformation, internal solidarity...

However, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also noted that the Department of Transport needs to clarify the subjective causes of the shortcomings and limitations that have been pointed out. The site clearance work has received attention but there are still shortcomings; the implementation of some tasks assigned by the Provincial People's Committee and the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee has not met requirements. The coordination with sectors and localities is sometimes not timely and effective, affecting the overall results.

Regarding the key tasks and solutions in the coming time, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee agreed with the report of the Department and requested the unit to fully absorb the opinions of the departments, branches, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies at the working session.

Leaders of the Department of Transport attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Department to continue to resolutely, synchronously and effectively implement state management work; closely follow the directions of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council and Provincial People's Committee, especially the contents in the Action Program of the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress and the Socio-Economic Development Plan for the period 2021-2025.

In particular, focusing on contents related to sectoral planning, integrated into the Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050 to ensure consistency and effectiveness. In this work, it is necessary to coordinate with sectors and localities to review development space planning, traffic corridors, economic corridors; and form urban areas and logistics centers in a synchronous manner.

In addition, together with the sectors, focus on removing two infrastructure bottlenecks, namely the Deep-water Port and Vinh International Airport, to create a breakthrough for the province's development. Focus on implementing key traffic projects, ensuring progress and quality, especially in site clearance, land recovery and conversion, ensuring the progress of public investment disbursement reaches 100% in 2022 as committed by the Department's leaders.

Leaders of departments and offices of the Department of Transport attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

The head of the provincial People's Committee also requested the Department of Transport to closely follow the province's proposal to the central agencies on additional resources, focusing on the project to expand National Highway 46, Vinh City - Nam Dan section; the proposed additional funding source is to pay for households eligible for compensation for land acquisition and clearance in the project to upgrade and expand National Highway 1A.

Pay attention to the appraisal and management of investment project quality from the project preparation stage, project implementation, ensuring strict compliance with regulations, using the State budget economically and effectively. Strengthen the direction to ensure traffic safety, strictly and promptly handle violations; manage traffic safety corridors; ensure the quality of training, testing, and granting driving licenses; control vehicle registration,

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee specifically requested the Department of Transport to continue promoting administrative reform, digital transformation, enhancing level 4 public services, building a shared database, creating maximum conditions for businesses and people. Pay attention to rectifying public ethics, awareness and responsibility of officials, civil servants and public employees in the industry. Strictly implement measures to prevent and combat corruption, negativity and waste.

At the meeting, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung also concluded the recommendations and proposals of the Department of Transport./.