Attaching responsibilities of sectors in new rural construction

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of November 2, the People's Committee of Nghe An province held a meeting to evaluate the communes that registered to reach the NTM target in 2016 and to deploy tasks in the coming time. Accordingly,The Steering Committee for New Rural Construction in Nghe An will strengthen inspection and urge communes to register to reach the finish line in 2016, attaching the responsibility of the industry to this effort.

Comrade Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting. Attending the meeting were representatives of the Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development, Planning and Investment, Transport, Construction and localities registered to reach the NTM target this year.

Overview of the meeting

By the end of October 2016, the total mobilized capital and integrated implementation of the National Target Program on New Rural Construction in the whole province reached nearly 24,000 billion VND (in the first 9 months of this year alone, it was more than 3,000 billion VND).

Of which, the state budget capital directly supports investment of more than 3,500 billion VND; the central capital is more than 1,100 billion VND; the provincial investment support capital is more than 763 billion VND; the investment capital of districts is more than 953 billion VND; the investment capital of communes is more than 690 billion VND; the enterprise capital is more than 2,100 billion VND; and the capital contributed by the people is nearly 7,000 billion VND.

Comrade Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee for New Rural Areas Steering Committee chaired the meeting.

Of the 34 communes registered to reach the NTM target in 2016, 9 have been assessed so far (2 more communes registered in 2015; 2 communes did not register but met the standards); 18 communes met 19/19 criteria and are completing the assessment dossier; 7 communes met 17/19 criteria. Thus, the number of communes registered to reach the NTM target in 2016, accounting for 26.5%, is behind schedule.

According to the assessment of the Provincial Steering Committee for the National Target Program on New Rural Development, in recent times, some districts have not made positive changes, such as Dien Chau, Quynh Luu, Hung Nguyen, Nghi Loc, Nam Dan, and Do Luong. These localities have a relatively large number of communes registered to reach the 2015 target and a relatively large number of communes registered in 2016, but so far, no commune has met the standards.

Comrade Le Hong Son - Chairman of Nghia Dan District People's Committee said that the locality has 2 communes registered to reach the NTM finish line, but up to now, 3 communes have completed 19/19 NTM criteria. At the same time, he proposed: The province needs to improve the cement support policy for communes registered to reach the finish line, especially mountainous communes; it is necessary to build a production development model with a concentrated, key scale and a larger investment level.

At the meeting, the localities proposed: The province needs to improve the cement support policy for communes that have registered to reach the finish line, especially mountainous communes; It is necessary to build a production development model with a concentrated, key scale and a larger investment level. The province needs to soon guide the implementation of Decision No. 1980/QD-TTg promulgating the National Criteria Set for New Rural Communes in the period of 2016-2020 (National Criteria Set).

Sectors need to support localities in relocating electric poles and communication lines after expanding rural roads. Some localities have not yet ensured the quality of the national grid. The school system in localities that meet national standards is still low, especially Nam Dan district.

Reinforcing intra-field canals in Nghia Khanh commune, Nghia Dan district.

Concluding the meeting, comrade Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee directed: Continue to promote propaganda and mobilization work to organize emulation movements to build new rural areas from the province to the grassroots level, taking the achievement of new rural standards as a measure of leadership, direction and administration of Party committees, authorities and the political system.

Departments, branches, and members of the provincial Steering Committee have increased inspections and urged communes to register to finish in 2016 but have not yet achieved the target. Accordingly, each sector must take responsibility for its own criteria.

Continue to mobilize and integrate resources, contributions from organizations and individuals, combined with local budgets and state budget support to complete the remaining criteria. In addition to the province's support policies, districts need to have additional support policies for communes.

Khu Bu villagers, Chau Khe commune, Con Cuong district build internal village roads.

At the same time, promote production development, restructure the agricultural sector to increase added value and sustainable development. Promote the work of verification, assessment and recognition of communes meeting NTM standards.

For the 7 communes that have only achieved 17/19 criteria, districts and communes are required to direct strongly, and sectors are required to strengthen urging and direction for completion.

Regarding the cement support policy, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that the province will continue to provide the remaining amount of cement to the 34 communes that registered to finish this year. In 2016, the Provincial People's Committee had a policy to support 98 thousand tons of cement to the 34 communes that registered to finish. Up to now, localities have received 83 thousand tons of cement, still lacking 15 thousand tons. Therefore, the Provincial People's Committee requested the districts to direct the communes that have not received enough cement to submit to the Department of Finance to receive it this November.

Xuan Hoang