Online conference to summarize Project 554 "Propaganda and dissemination of law to ethnic minorities".

(Baonghean.vn) -On the morning of April 10, a national online conference was held to summarize Project 554 "Propaganda and dissemination of law to rural people and ethnic minorities" from 2009 - 2012 and the planning direction from 2013 to 2016.

Attending and chairing the Hanoi side were comrades: Nguyen Xuan Phuc - Politburo member, Deputy Prime Minister; Cao Duc Phat - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and representatives of ministries and branches who are members of Steering Committee 554. On the Nghe An side, comrade Dinh Viet Hong, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired with representatives of a number of relevant departments, branches and organizations.



Meeting scene at Nghe An bridge

Implementing Decision No. 554/TTg dated May 4, 2009 of the Prime Minister approving the Project "propaganda and dissemination of law to rural people and ethnic minorities", over the past 3 years, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in coordination with the Ethnic Committee, Farmers' Association and Women's Union of the province has propagated and disseminated the content of the project, built a network for propagating and disseminating the law; organized 4 sub-projects to conduct surveys; developed and compiled legal documents to serve propaganda work; built pilot models at the grassroots level; integrated and diversified the forms of organizing law dissemination suitable for each subject, region, and ethnic group to bring the law to the people...

The project has organized 69 training courses for over 3,210 officials, organized more than 40 conferences to disseminate the law to over 2,500 people, provided legal advice to nearly 12,000 people, directly communicated 18 sessions to over 500 law association members, provided legal aid to over 9,000 people, conducted 7,530 mediation sessions, built 160 legal bookcases with over 500 books... The provincial press agencies have devoted many special pages and columns to disseminate the law to ethnic minorities. In 3 years, 97% of rural people and ethnic minorities (2.89/2.98 million people) and 100% of relevant civil servants and public employees have been disseminated the law...

Participating in the online conference, along with listening and absorbing information from the connecting points, Nghe An also raised some specific advantages and difficulties from the implementation practice in the area; at the same time, recommended and proposed some solutions for the Central Steering Committee of Project 554 to absorb, amend and supplement when moving to the new phase./.

Nguyen Hai