Supervision by the People's Council should avoid the situation of "beating drums into the air"

Co-chairing the conference were comrades: Uong Chu Luu - Member of the Party Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly; Tran Van Tuy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation Affairs Committee; Le Dinh Son - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of Ha Tinh province; comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province; comrade Cao Thi Hien - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province. Photo: Mai Hoa

Delegates discuss on the sidelines of the conference. Photo: Mai Hoa

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the conference, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province affirmed that hosting the 4th Conference of the Standing Committee of the People's Councils of the North Central region for the 2016-2021 term is a great honor for Nghe An province.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Xuan Son said that supervision is one of the two basic functions of the People's Council. Supervision has many forms, but thematic supervision is a form that plays a very important role.

Thematic supervision of the People's Council is about major issues that have a strong impact on people's lives and on socio-economic development and government building, which are of special interest to voters and people. This is also a new form of supervision stipulated in the Law on Supervisory Activities of the National Assembly and People's Councils in 2015.

Therefore, the Delegation Working Committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee and the Standing Committees of the People's Councils of the provinces in the region agreed on the theme of this conference as "Solutions to improve the quality and effectiveness of thematic supervision activities of the Provincial People's Councils".

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council delivered the opening speech at the conference. Photo: Mai Hoa

In that spirit, at the conference, in addition to emphasizing the increase in the number of thematic supervisions, the Standing Committee of the People's Councils of the 6 North Central provinces also affirmed that the selection of supervision content is a concern, ensuring that it "hits" the socio-economic issues that voters and People's Council delegates are interested in; at the same time, it must be "correct" in terms of the authority and responsibility of the People's Council and the right subjects of supervision.

On the other hand, the selection of monitoring content should avoid duplication with agencies in the central and same-level political system.

Accordingly, the selected monitoring contents are all important issues related to the implementation of local political tasks and closely related to production, people's lives, and state management responsibilities of competent authorities.

Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Council Hoang Viet Duong shares experience in monitoring activities. Photo: Mai Hoa

For Nghe An province, these are the topics of monitoring the implementation of the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction; the management and implementation of urban land use projects in the province; the organization of apparatus and staffing, contracts in state administrative agencies and public service units.

Thanh Hoa province chooses to monitor compliance with legal regulations in the fight against smuggling, counterfeit goods and trade fraud; compliance with laws in environmental protection...

Quang Binh province focuses on monitoring the implementation of the autonomy mechanism in public service units; administrative handling of traffic safety violations.

Quang Tri province focuses on a series of topics on the management and use of land types in the province.

Thua Thien Hue province is a typical example of monitoring the situation and results of land use of investment projects in the province.

Representatives of the Standing Committee of the People's Council of Thua Thien Hue province exchanged experiences in organizing thematic supervision in the locality. Photo: Mai Hoa

In addition to selecting content, the People's Councils of the provinces also pay attention to innovating methods, approaches and forms of supervision; especially expanding the composition of participants in customs clearance supervision, promoting the role of the Groups and delegates of the Provincial People's Council to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of supervision.

Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Uong Chu Luu gave a speech at the conference. Photo: Mai Hoa

Speaking at the conference, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Uong Chu Luu highly appreciated the proactive innovation of the Standing Committee of the People's Councils of the 6 provinces in the North Central region in monitoring activities.

Affirming that supervision by the People's Council is an activity of state power at the local level, the Vice Chairman of the National Assembly requested that the People's Councils of the provinces pay attention to each stage before, during and after thematic supervision; from selecting the content of supervision to selecting the subject of supervision, time of supervision and participating members.

Existing problems and limitations in the monitoring contents must have specific addresses and clarify the responsibilities of the leaders; if existing problems and limitations are only reflected in general terms, it is like "drumming in the air".

Conference scene. Photo: Mai Hoa

The Vice Chairman of the National Assembly also emphasized the important factor in improving the quality of the People's Council's activities in general and its supervision activities in particular, which is the quality of the People's Council's delegates. Therefore, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council continues to pay attention to improving the quality of delegates in many different forms. The National Assembly is also continuing to research, develop and improve the standards and conditions of elected delegates to improve the quality of delegates in the coming time.