Solve people's pressing problems
(Baonghean) - Comrade Cao Thi Hien - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council gave an interview to Nghe An Newspaper.
PV:Dear Comrade! In recent meetings, many “hot” issues of the province, urgent issues of the people and businesses have been put on the agenda. Could you share more specifically the key issues raised at the previous meeting and the results achieved?
Comrade Cao Thi Hien:From closely following the regulations on the functions, tasks and powers of the People's Council and in response to practical requirements, the Provincial People's Council has always been concerned with innovating and improving the quality of activities at all stages, including the organization of meetings. And the most important factor determining the success of each meeting is that on the basis of listening to voters' opinions and feedback from the press, especially on the key tasks of the province, the Provincial People's Council considers and selects to include in the meeting agenda and content to analyze and clarify the current situation, causes and, more importantly, find solutions to solve "hot" and pressing issues that people and businesses are concerned about.
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| Comrade Cao Thi Hien and the working group supervise environmental protection work in enterprises in Hung Nguyen district. Photo: Mai Hoa |
After the Provincial People's Council meetings, the Provincial People's Committee urged and directed sectors and localities to seriously absorb and take drastic actions, creating many positive changes in socio-economic development, national defense and security.
Notably, the GRDP growth rate in the first 6 months of the year is estimated at 7.09%; budget revenue is estimated at 7,180 billion VND, equal to 53.2% of the estimate, up 17.6% over the same period, of which domestic revenue excluding land use fees increased by 18.5%. The disbursement rate of public investment capital in the first 5 months of 2019 reached 42.18% of the assigned plan, higher than the same period in 2018 (the same period was 32.94%), higher than the national average (only reaching 23.25%); estimated disbursement in the first 6 months reached about 50.3% of the plan. The quality of new rural construction has been focused on by sectors and localities to improve criteria, especially paying more attention to the criteria of improving living conditions and increasing income for people; gradually resolving outstanding debts in new rural construction in localities.
A social issue that has caused public discontent is land brokers. After the Provincial People's Council clarified the responsibility at the previous session, the Public Security sector has also taken drastic action by deploying forces at auction locations to limit the situation of brokers forcing buyers to pay money or negotiate prices, ensuring security and order at auction locations. Localities have also made many innovations in organizing auctions and focused on selecting reputable auction units to reduce the "heated" situation in auctions of residential land use rights of households.
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| Voters of Hung Dung ward (Vinh city) propose solutions to some problems in the area. Photo: Minh Chi |
The planning, management and implementation of apartment and urban area projects are carried out more strictly, overcoming the situation of small apartment projects being mixed in and adjusting the design of increasing floors; along with that, attention is paid to directing the establishment of Management Boards of apartment buildings, hamlets, blocks and residential groups in urban areas. The work of resolving the backlog of policies for people with meritorious services is given attention; environmental protection, occupational safety and hygiene and policies for workers have positive changes...
In addition, many policies have also been issued by the Provincial People's Council to solve practical problems, such as policies to encourage enterprises to invest in agriculture and rural areas; policies to encourage cooperation development, support production linkage and consumption of agricultural products in the province...
PV:Many issues raised by the Provincial People's Council at the meetings have had positive changes since then; however, there are still issues that have not met requirements, so the Provincial People's Council continues to follow up to resolve them. Could you please elaborate on this issue?
Comrade Cao Thi Hien:In addition to many issues that have changed, there are still issues that have not been able to meet the requirements and expectations of the provincial People's Council delegates and voters. With the viewpoint of pursuing to the end the issues raised, especially the urgent issues of the people, in recent times, many issues have been closely followed by the Provincial People's Council through monitoring activities, surveys, organizing explanations in the meetings of the Provincial People's Council Standing Committee and other working sessions of the Standing Committee, the Provincial People's Council Committees with departments, branches, sectors and localities to find the "root" of the problem and have effective solutions.
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In the first 6 months of 2019, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council organized 2 thematic supervision and surveys on the management and collection of budget and the reception of citizens, handling of complaints, denunciations, recommendations and reflections of citizens. Through that, the Provincial People's Council discovered shortcomings and problems and proposed recommendations and solutions to the Provincial People's Committee, sectors and localities to overcome the above 2 problems.
And also with the viewpoint of following up and pursuing to the end the issues that have been raised, in the first 6 months of the year, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council also held a session to explain the settlement of the existing problems from hydropower plants that the Provincial People's Council had concluded and recommended through the organization of a monitoring delegation and organized questioning at the previous session. The general spirit at the recent explanation session of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council was to resolutely urge and assign specific responsibilities to investors of hydropower projects in resolving the existing problems as well as the consequences from hydropower projects. At the same time, it is proposed that the Provincial People's Committee and the sectors get involved, propose "fundamental" solutions to ensure the safety of life and stabilize the sustainable life of people living near the reservoir and downstream areas through rebuilding flood discharge corridors for hydropower projects, and at the same time urge the completion of approval of inter-reservoir operation procedures to manage and minimize risks from hydropower plants.
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| The issue of policies and regimes for employees in enterprises is always of concern. |
In addition to the above issues, through the coordination of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council, the Provincial People's Council Committees have also carried out many thematic supervisions and surveys on the implementation of cultural indicators; the situation of early marriage and consanguineous marriage; the implementation of policies in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; the handling of traffic accidents and violations of traffic safety laws in the province...
PV:At this 9th session, what key contents will be discussed, comrade?
Comrade Cao Thi Hien:To continue improving the quality of the session and meeting the people's expectations, at this session, the Provincial People's Council continues to innovate the working sessions, of which the most notable are the group discussion session, the hall discussion, the question and answer session and the resolution passing session. The session will review 28 reports on the province's socio-economic, national defense and security and reports on the activities of the Standing Committee, the Provincial People's Council Committees, and the management work of the Provincial People's Committee in the first 6 months of the year; review and approve 26 draft resolutions under its authority.
In addition to discussing and deciding on issues related to socio-economic development, national defense and security, and issuing important policies and mechanisms; at this session, the Provincial People's Council will also select many issues arising in practice to question and discuss. These include child drowning, child abuse, child marriage in children under 16 years old, children in violation of the law; the issue of "suspended" planning, "suspended" projects; inadequacies in land management, especially urban land management, land for investment projects, illegal conversion of land use purposes; the implementation of policies for ethnic minority and mountainous areas, including production land for ethnic minorities...
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| Provincial People's Council Committees survey vocational training facilities in Yen Thanh district. Photo: Mai Hoa |
At the meeting, on the basis of thematic supervision of the management and collection of state budget in the province, period 2016 - 2018, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council reported the results of supervision at the meeting, and at the same time asked for the Provincial People's Council's opinion to pass a resolution to serve as a basis for all levels and sectors to take drastic measures to overcome the shortcomings and inadequacies, contributing to increasing budget revenue in the area in the coming years. In addition, the Provincial People's Council will also consider resolving opinions, recommendations and reflections of voters from functional agencies, on that basis, continue to urge and pursue recommendations that have not been resolved or have not been resolved thoroughly or fully. Along with that, it is passed.
To ensure the success of the meeting, I call on the Provincial People's Council delegates and invited delegates attending the meeting to promote their responsibilities and duties to contribute many opinions at the meeting; at the same time, focus on and urge the resolution of issues raised after the meeting.
PV:Thank you comrade!
