Responding better and better to voters' wishes

PV:Dear comrade, could you please tell us the main agenda of the 7th Session (mid-year regular session 2022) of the 18th Provincial People's Council, opening on July 12, 2022?

Comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh:With a proactive, early and remote spirit, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council has directed the preparation and organization of the 2022 sessions of the Provincial People's Council from the beginning of the year, ensuring the correct procedures, progress and quality. This session will review 25 reports, discuss and approve 34 resolutions on the results of the implementation of tasks in the first 6 months of 2022, key solutions for the last 6 months of 2022 and many contents related to the socio-economic development situation, ensuring national defense and security, disease prevention and control, and implementation of national target programs.

Panorama of the 6th Session of Nghe An Provincial People's Council. Photo: Thanh Duy

In addition, the Session will also focus on discussing issues that have received special attention from the public and voters in recent times, such as: Quality and price of domestic water in Vinh city; price and market management in the context of high fuel prices affecting production, business and people's lives; progress of site clearance for some key projects; disbursement rate of public investment capital; payment of Covid-19 pandemic prevention allowances.

At the same time, the Session also questioned two contents: Results of the implementation of Resolution No. 11/NQ-CP dated January 30, 2022 of the Government on the Socio-Economic Recovery and Development Program and the implementation of Resolution No. 43/2022/QH15 of the National Assembly on fiscal and monetary policies to support the Socio-Economic Recovery and Development Program and social security work; work of establishing and managing construction planning and construction order.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council and the working delegation surveyed the cage fish farming model on the Hua Na Hydropower Reservoir (Que Phong). Photo: Thanh Duy

During the preparation for the Session, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council directed the Provincial People's Council Committees to proactively coordinate and participate in surveys, draft reports, and provide comments for the drafting agencies to study, absorb, and complete for submission to the Provincial People's Committee.review the contentsThe meeting agenda was carefully and thoughtfully conducted by the Standing Committee and the Provincial People's Council Committees; issues with different opinions were summarized and reported to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council for consideration and comments. The Provincial People's Council will continue to apply information technology, making maximum use of digital platforms to organize a scientific, safe and effective paperless meeting.

PV:The two questions at the Session are highly topical issues that voters are very interested in. What are the requirements for the questioning activities at the Session, comrade?

Comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh:To prepare for the questioning session, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council assigned the Committees and Delegation Groups to carefully prepare and organize surveys to collect information from agencies, units, organizations and individuals related to the questioning content; advise and report to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council.

At the question and answer session, the Director of the Department of Planning and Investment and the Department of Construction will directly answer questions from the delegates of the Provincial People's Council. In addition, the Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee in charge of sectors and fields; Directors of departments, heads of agencies, units, Chairmen of People's Committees of relevant districts, cities and towns will also participate in answering questions when necessary to explain and clarify the contents that the delegates of the Provincial People's Council are interested in.

The Provincial People's Council's monitoring delegation directly surveyed a number of slow-progressing projects in Cua Lo town. Photo: Mai Hoa

Before conducting the questioning, the Provincial People's Council will listen to the Provincial People's Committee's summary report on the implementation results of the conclusions of the two questioning contents for the Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment and the Director of the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs at the 4th Session of the 18th Nghe An Provincial People's Council.

In order for the questioning activities at this Session to be most effective, the questioning must be brief, clearly responsible, within the scope and content of the selected groups of issues, without asking questions that provide information or tell the situation, and the questioning time for each delegate must not exceed 2 minutes. In case there are still issues that need to be debated, or to refute the answers of the person being questioned, the delegate has the right to debate to clarify to the end.

The response to the question must go directly to the issue that the People's Council delegate questions, associated with the responsibility of the person being questioned. In particular, for limitations, shortcomings, and inadequacies, it is necessary to clearly identify the causes, solutions, and implementation roadmap in the coming time. The time to answer each content in the question must not exceed 5 minutes. For questions and debated content that have not been answered or have not been fully answered at the Session, the person being questioned must respond in writing to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and the person questioning within 5 working days after the Session.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Nhu Khoi talks with voters of Quy Hop.

After the questioning session, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council will issue a Notice of Conclusion for the Provincial People's Committee, departments, branches and sectors to implement and for the agencies of the Provincial People's Council, the Delegation Group, Provincial People's Council delegates as well as voters to supervise the implementation.

PV:To make the meeting effective and successful, and for policies to be issued and quickly put into practice, what are the general requirements, comrade?

Comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh:The 7th session of the Provincial People's Council took place in the context that socio-economic activities nationwide and in the province have basically returned to normal, initially recovering positively after the Covid-19 pandemic was controlled. However, the unpredictable fluctuations of the world situation, adverse impacts on the socio-economic recovery process, and significant impacts on people's lives require the Provincial People's Council to have correct, effective and timely decisions to remove difficulties,promote development.

In that spirit, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council requests that the Provincial People's Council delegates continue to further promote the role of elected representatives, actively, enthusiastically and responsibly perform their tasks at the Session; at the same time, closely follow the practical situation of the places where they are running for election and working, listen to the thoughts, aspirations and recommendations of voters; carefully study the Session documents, focus on important issues, major contents, and different opinions to speak and discuss, contributing to improving the quality of the Session.

The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council also requested the Provincial People's Committee, relevant departments, branches, and agencies of the Provincial People's Council to continue to closely coordinate during the session. Representatives of leaders of departments, branches, and localities need to attend all sessions to listen, absorb, and explain the opinions of the Provincial People's Council delegates and the conclusions of the Session Chair to overcome the limitations and shortcomings that have been pointed out.

At the 7th Session, the Provincial People's Council will continue to promote its role as a local State power agency, representing the will, aspirations and mastery of the People; continue to innovate methods, improve the quality and effectiveness of implementing the agenda; accompany the Provincial People's Committee and agencies in the political system to accelerate progress, improve the quality of task performance, making an important contribution to the successful implementation of socio-economic development goals and targets in 2022 and the 2020-2025 period.

PV:Sincerely thank you, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council!

Panoramic view of Vinh city center. Photo: Sach Nguyen