Publicity and transparency in mobilizing and using people's contributions

(Baonghean.vn) - The Provincial People's Committee is determined to direct to ensure that fund collections, fees, and contributions from the people are in accordance with the law, to the right subjects, suitable to the people's ability to contribute, and are managed in the strictest manner.

This is the affirmation of Mr. Le Xuan Dai - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee at the discussion session in the hall on the morning of July 12 on rectifying the collection of funds, fees and contributions from the people.

Before the provincial People's Council delegates, Mr. Le Xuan Dai said that the largest source of revenue is the amount of contributions mobilized from the people to invest in building infrastructure and schools.

Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Xuan Dai spoke at the discussion session in the hall. Photo: Duc Anh

Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Xuan Dai said that in 2016, revenue from contributions to infrastructure construction was more than 252 billion VND; revenue from contributions to school construction was more than 238 billion VND.

Also in 2016, the revenue from various funds according to the Resolution of the People's Council at the commune level was over 28 billion VND. The revenue from establishment in villages was over 32.6 billion VND.

Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Xuan Dai emphasized the view that, in the context of the province's limited budget, revenue only meets about 50% of expenditure, the remaining 50% is regulated by the Central budget. Therefore, without the cooperation and contribution of people, businesses, and social organizations, it will certainly be very difficult to ensure investment resources.

“But the problem is how to do it well to ensure publicity, transparency, democracy and must reflect the right subjects. Which subjects do we mobilize, which subjects are exempted?” - Mr. Le Xuan Dai emphasized the province's guiding viewpoint.

However, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that through inspection, it was found that in the process of implementing voluntary collection of mobilized funds, there were still localities and units that did not do well, there was still a situation of equalization, equal division according to per capita, the implementation of democracy at the grassroots level in wards, communes, towns, and schools was not done much...

Therefore, after re-evaluating and identifying the shortcomings and limitations in this matter, in March 2017, the People's Committee issued a document to rectify this content. Mr. Le Xuan Dai added that recently, after reviewing, the province continued to issue a document to rectify the revenue according to the resolution of the People's Council at the commune level.

The Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also emphasized that the province requires that the revenues from the fund must be strictly implemented according to the mobilization objectives, collected to the right subjects, seriously, and not collected from exempted subjects; and the revenues in villages and hamlets must be implemented according to Decree 34 of the National Assembly on implementing the Grassroots Democracy Regulations.

Regarding the revenues related to infrastructure construction mobilization, Mr. Le Xuan Dai emphasized that we will continue to mobilize people to implement, but during the implementation process, we must ensure publicity, transparency, clarity, democracy, and suitability with the people's contribution capacity.

Regarding the management of voluntary revenues in the Education and Training sector, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that it must be managed based on the budget at the beginning of the school year and the commune-level authorities must coordinate with schools to organize and direct good implementation.

"All voluntary income and contributions to build school facilities must be deposited into a deposit account at the State Treasury, and there must be a specific expenditure estimate," said Mr. Le Xuan Dai.

“Based on the recent review by the Finance, Education and Training sectors, the Provincial People's Committee is determined to direct to ensure that fund collections, fees, and contributions from the people are in accordance with the law, to the right subjects, suitable to the people's contribution capacity and managed in the strictest manner” - Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Xuan Dai affirmed./.

Thanh Duy