Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung works with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment

On the afternoon of May 5, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and the working delegation had a working session with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to evaluate the results of the sector's tasks in the past time and key tasks and solutions in the coming time.

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Overview of the working session. Photo: Pham Bang

SYNCHRONOUS, RESOLUTIVE AND EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF TASKS

At the working session, the working delegation agreed with the assessment that, in the past time, the entire Natural Resources and Environment sector (TN&MT) has made many efforts, proactively, focused on synchronously, drastically and effectively implementing tasks and solutions on the basis of closely following the Resolutions of the National Assembly, the Government; and the direction of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Provincial Party Committee, the People's Council and the Provincial People's Committee.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment has promptly advised and specified legal regulations in accordance with the local reality of the province from the provisions of current laws, effectively serving the management of natural resources and environment; implementing and completing with quality the program of building Resolutions of the Provincial People's Council and Decisions of the Provincial People's Committee on the sector's fields.

Administrative reform has been carried out drastically. In particular, the time for processing dossiers in the environmental sector has been reduced by 100 days compared to regulations and 3 procedures have been abolished; in the mineral sector, it has been reduced by 323 days compared to regulations and 1 procedure has been abolished; in the water resources and sea and island sectors, it has been reduced by 205 days compared to regulations and 10 procedures have been abolished.

Comrade Hoang Quoc Viet - Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment presented a report on the results of the implementation of tasks in the past time, directions and tasks in the coming time. Photo: Pham Bang

The Department has also performed well the tasks assigned by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Provincial Party Committee, and the Provincial People's Committee on schedule, achieving good results, such as: inspecting and handling slow-progressing projects in the whole province; building, amending and supplementing the industrial park land price list in the Southeast Economic Zone and amending and supplementing the land price list of Nghe An province for the period 2020 - 2024; inspecting and examining law enforcement, handling complaints and petitions in the field of natural resources and environment; granting land use right certificates, etc.

Actively implementing the plan to inspect, examine and strictly handle violations of natural resources and environment, thereby rectifying state management of land, recommending the revocation of projects using illegal land, limiting illegal mineral exploitation, preventing the emergence of establishments causing serious environmental pollution; improving the effectiveness and efficiency of law enforcement.

At the meeting, leaders of departments and branches assessed the coordination in performing tasks with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment; raised many coordination issues in the coming time, and gave opinions on the recommendations and proposals of the Department.

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

Comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee emphasized the complexity and sensitivity of the natural resources and environment sector. In the past, many party members have violated laws related to land. Therefore, in the coming time, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment needs to strengthen inspection and supervision to prevent violations; educate and train cadres and party members to meet the requirements. In addition, the Department also needs to review, supplement the planning and build a plan for cadres with sufficient capacity, qualities and ensure professional qualifications, especially for young cadres.

Appreciating the results achieved by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment in the past time, Mr. Hoang Nghia Hieu - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee pointed out a number of shortcomings and limitations and suggested that the Department of Natural Resources and Environment continue to review policies and legal regulations on the field of natural resources and environment, focus on better administrative reform, and strictly manage to improve the efficiency of resource use in the direction of saving, associated with digitalization in management work. On the other hand, speed up the progress of land use planning, resolve backlogs in land management, improve the quality of consultation...

Comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

8 KEY TASKS OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT SECTOR

Concluding the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized the importance of the natural resources and environment sector to the socio-economic development, national defense and security of the province. At the same time, he acknowledged, praised and highly appreciated the results that the Department of Natural Resources and Environment has achieved in the past time, contributing to the overall development of the province.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also pointed out the shortcomings and limitations of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment such as: in handling administrative procedures for businesses and people, there are still contents that do not meet requirements; it is necessary to proactively handle problems at the grassroots level and of businesses; the situation of illegal and unlicensed mineral exploitation still occurs; environmental treatment has not been completed...

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

Regarding the direction and tasks in the coming time, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung emphasized 8 key tasks that the Department of Natural Resources and Environment needs to perform well. In particular, focusing on directing the effective implementation of the Action Program of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, the Action Plan of the Provincial People's Committee on implementing the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress.

Pay attention to planning work, coordinate with consulting units to complete land, mineral and water resource planning. Review and advise on mechanisms, policies and legal regulations to ensure compliance with new regulations; strengthen inspection and examination of the environmental resources sector to avoid overlap and difficulties for businesses and investors; continue to pay attention to handling and resolving complaints and denunciations; strengthen propaganda and legal education; implement related contents under the direction of the Prime Minister's Working Group.

Regarding the field of land management, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that this is a large, complicated, sensitive field, and also a field with many violations and 70% of petitions are related to land. Therefore, the viewpoint is to handle it strictly, ensuring compliance with legal regulations, transparency and efficiency.

Comrades in the Board of Directors of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment needs to improve the quality of dossier appraisal; pay attention to solving land needs for religious establishments; coordinate with other agencies to build a database on land and cadastral records, gradually digitize, speed up the progress of handling backlogs; advise on the allocation of planning targets and land use plans for localities; urge the completion of district-level land use planning for the period 2021-2030, promptly submit the land use plan for 2022; advise on the implementation of Decision No. 10 of the Prime Minister; complete the province's land use plan for the period 2021-2025.

Regarding mineral management, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to strictly manage all stages, review all qualified mineral areas in the province to integrate into the planning, serving the development needs of the province. Along with that, continue to guide and direct localities to effectively implement mineral resource management, closely linked with environmental protection.

The Department also needs to soon develop a project to closely monitor mineral mines, apply information technology and require businesses to strictly implement regulations on mineral exploitation, avoiding loss of resources and tax revenue. Implement the auction of mineral exploitation rights to ensure publicity, transparency and compliance with legal regulations.

Leaders of departments and branches attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Regarding the environment, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee affirmed that the province's viewpoint is not to trade the environment for economic development goals, and not to approve projects with high risk of environmental pollution.

In the coming time, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment needs to pay attention to controlling environmental quality throughout the province; promptly detecting and handling establishments causing environmental pollution; controlling waste and waste treatment, strengthening inspection and supervision for prevention; thoroughly handling existing problems such as residual pesticides; advising on the issuance of a plan for the Provincial People's Committee to implement Resolution No. 08 of the Provincial Party Committee on strengthening the Party's leadership in environmental protection work in the area.

Regarding the field of water, sea and island resources, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to advise the Provincial People's Committee to issue a list of water resources and approve the project to investigate and establish coastal protection corridors in Nghe An province; Project to investigate, delimit prohibited, restricted areas and registered areas for underground water exploitation in the province and inspect and monitor the water environment and marine environment; advise on the issuance of a Resolution on strengthening the Party's leadership over the strategy for sustainable development of the marine economy.

Leaders of departments and branches attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

The head of the provincial People's Committee also requested the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to promote administrative procedure reform, create changes in administrative reform in the Department; pay attention to correcting the awareness, responsibility, and public ethics of cadres, party members, civil servants, public employees, and workers in the entire sector. The general policy of the provincial leadership is to have no forbidden areas, strictly handle organizations and individuals with violations and wrongdoings; pay attention to training and planning cadres, especially young cadres.

At the meeting, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung also concluded the recommendations and proposals of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment; at the same time, requested the Department to fully absorb the opinions of the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies, and leaders of departments and branches to better perform the tasks of the sector in the coming time.