The rice-growing district in Nghe An will hold online meetings with communes and towns.

On the morning of August 13, the Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Team No. 9, headed by Comrade Cao Thi Hien - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, had a working session with Yen Thanh district on the results of the implementation of the Project to promote administrative reform; improve the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees in the period of 2016 - 2020. Attending the meeting were representatives of leaders of provincial departments, branches and sectors and Yen Thanh district. Photo: Thanh Le

Reforming working methods

Reporting to the inspection team, Chairman of Yen Thanh District People's Committee Phan Van Tuyen said: The district's viewpoint on administrative reform (AR) is to reform the working methods of the political system, of each cadre, civil servant, and public employee to meet the needs of the people. Therefore, public service ethics is put first, from strictly observing working hours, office culture of each cadre, civil servant, and public employee.

The district assigns and decentralizes to departments, offices, units, and localities, directs agencies, departments, and offices to develop job position projects, especially enhancing the responsibility of leaders, promoting the responsibility of leaders to create high efficiency in administrative reform work.

Chairman of Yen Thanh District People's Committee Phan Van Tuyen spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Le

In addition, Yen Thanh has reduced meetings and held them online. The district has invested 4.5 billion VND to complete the online system for 75 schools in the area. Accordingly, meetings from the district's Department of Education to schools are all held online.

“In 2019, the district will invest about 3 billion VND to complete the online meeting system connecting with 39/39 communes and towns. Thereby, it will contribute to saving organization costs, saving travel time, effort, safety for participants, increasing confidentiality, improving work productivity; decisions and content are transmitted promptly, on time and to many components” - Chairman of Yen Thanh District People's Committee informed.

Handling administrative procedures at the One-Stop Department of Yen Thanh District People's Committee. Photo: Thanh Le

In addition, Yen Thanh district pointed out that the implementation of the Project still has some shortcomings and limitations such as: The issuance of documents in many communes and units is not in the right format and beyond authority; the implementation of the one-stop shop and inter-connected one-stop shop mechanism is still formal and not substantial; the compliance with administrative discipline in some agencies and units is not serious...

At the same time, Yen Thanh district proposed to address shortcomings in institutions, procedures, streamlining of staff, and merging of organizations and apparatus.

Yen Thanh district announced and posted 216 district-level administrative procedures at the Reception and Result Delivery Department and on the district's electronic information portal; 64 commune-level administrative procedures were posted at the Reception and Result Delivery Department in the communes.

Results of receiving and handling administrative procedures of Yen Thanh district in 2019: District level received 21,013 new records; commune level 33,286 records. As a result, 100% of records were returned on time.

Clarifying the issues of concern to the inspection team, Chairman of Yen Thanh District People's Committee Phan Van Tuyen affirmed: In implementing administrative reform, Yen Thanh chose two breakthroughs: Modernizing the administrative system and improving the quality of the staff, civil servants and public employees.

Choose the breakthrough

At the conference, the contents that the members of the monitoring delegation requested the district to clarify were related to: Cutting down administrative procedures, handling overdue records; difficulties in implementing the one-stop shop and inter-connected one-stop shop mechanisms; assessing satisfaction levels; inspecting and handling officials; responsibilities of leaders; improving the quality of conferences; making administrative reform one of the criteria for annual assessment and classification, choosing breakthroughs in administrative reform...

Checking the settlement of administrative procedures in Yen Thanh district. Photo: Thanh Le

Concluding the meeting, Comrade Cao Thi Hien suggested that Yen Thanh district should focus on reviewing and simplifying administrative procedures, especially those related to people and businesses such as investment, land, construction, natural resources and environment; effectively implementing the one-stop shop and one-stop shop mechanism from district to commune level.

At the same time, the district needs to pay attention to training and fostering cadres, civil servants and public employees to meet the requirements of the tasks; increase the application of information technology in the activities of state administrative agencies and provide public services, improve the quality of handling administrative procedures for people; strengthen administrative discipline; soon put the district - commune online meeting system into use...