Difficulty in creating sources of village cadres

(Baonghean) - In 2017, the Party cell under the grassroots Party Committee will hold a congress for the 2017-2020 term, and at the same time, the villages and hamlets will also organize the election of hamlet chiefs. Nghe An Newspaper had an interview with Mr. Le Huy Khoa - Party Secretary, Chairman of the People's Council of Hung Dao Commune (Hung Nguyen) about the difficulties in creating cadre sources in villages and hamlets.

PV:This year, the Party cells under the grassroots Party Committee organized the congress for the 2017-2020 term. How did the Commune Party Committee guide and direct the preparation for the congress, sir?

Mr. Le Huy Khoa:Hung Dao Commune Party Committee currently has 18 Party cells with a total of 426 Party members, including 14 rural Party cells. To prepare for the Party cell congress for the 2017-2020 term, the Commune Party Committee has issued guidelines for organizing and implementing the congress preparation work such as documents, personnel work of the Party Committee, Secretary, Deputy Secretary; program, and decoration during the congress. The time of implementation is from July 5 to 20, 2017, in which we selected 2 Party cells 4A and 5A to organize a pilot congress to gain experience in directing the remaining Party cells.

Leaders of Hung Dao commune (Hung Nguyen) talk with people. Photo: Thanh Le

The Party Committee requires that the selection and introduction of personnel must ensure quality, have inheritance and development, including people who are exemplary in character, intelligence, meet the standards and conditions, and have the ability to lead and successfully implement the resolutions of the Party cell congress and higher levels. The Party cell secretary and deputy secretary must be truly exemplary in intelligence, ethics, prestige, working capacity, practical experience, and be trusted by cadres, Party members and the masses. Also in July, we organized the election of hamlet chiefs in hamlets in the commune.

PV:For a long time now, in many localities, due to many reasons, many “prisoners and village officials” are not very interested in working as cadres. So what is the situation in Hung Dao commune, sir?

Mr. Le Huy Khoa:Hung Dao Commune is no exception to the difficult situation of cadre resources for the village and hamlet levels. For Party cells of State agencies, the issue of personnel for the Party Committee is not a matter of concern, but for rural Party cells, this is a real concern, especially with the rejuvenation of the cadre team. In the Commune Party Committee, over 60% of Party members are over 60 years old. As for young Party members, due to economic conditions, many of them do not stay in the locality regularly but work far away and only come back to participate in Party cell activities.

Every month, after the meeting of the Party Executive Committee of the commune, we hold a meeting with the Party cell secretary and the hamlet chief to deploy the implementation of monthly tasks. After this meeting, the Party cell secretary organizes a Party cell meeting to discuss and issue implementation policies; then the Party cell secretary who is also the head of the Front work committee organizes a meeting of the Front work committee to deploy to mass organizations such as: war veterans, farmers, women, and youth to know and carry out the tasks. The hamlet chief deploys and directs the general tasks, the most difficult in our locality is the hamlet chief who focuses on implementing agricultural production work from planting schedules, seeds, irrigation... to follow the general direction, ensuring synchronization.

The cultural house of Hung Dao commune (Hung Nguyen) was built spaciously. Photo: Thanh Duy

In addition, in practice at the grassroots level, in general, the work of village and hamlet cadres is a lot, sometimes complicated, but in reality, the allowance for this team is still low, for Hung Dao commune, the allowance fluctuates around 1 million VND/month. This leads to many people not being able to wholeheartedly devote themselves to their work, especially in rural conditions, many village cadres are also working and producing to take care of their family economy; not to mention they also have to spend money out of their own pockets to serve the work.

PV:To ensure the source of cadres in villages and hamlets, what solutions does the Hung Dao Commune Party Committee have, sir?

Mr. Le Huy Khoa:We have directed the Party cells to carry out personnel work in accordance with instructions and procedures; in particular, the commune and the Party cells should consider and encourage individuals who are doing well to try to continue their work; and those who cannot continue their work due to health or circumstances should proactively seek out successor cadres within the Party cell.

For a long time, we have also focused on implementing the work of "planning" village and hamlet cadres from the mass organizations. From the Party Committee's monitoring channel, the Party cell reports, the mass organizations report, when we see any individuals with the ability to become cadres, we propagate, orient, and create conditions for them to train and strive to join the Party's ranks to create source cadres.

The commune also mobilized people in villages and hamlets to discuss and contribute funds to support village and hamlet cadres in addition to the positions with allowances such as Party cell secretary and hamlet chief. In addition, every year, the commune Party Committee allocates party fees to support each deputy Party cell secretary with 100,000 VND/month and each Party cell committee member with 80,000 VND/month. Although the amount of support is not much, it is to share and encourage them in performing common work to serve the community.

For village and hamlet cadres, we determined that in addition to directing the implementation of political tasks in the area, the most important thing is to regularly encourage and motivate them to promote their pioneering and exemplary role as party members and prestigious people in the community to contribute to the work of the village and hamlet, and not to rigidly follow the regulations of superiors and subordinates.

In general, with the above solutions, the source of cadres for the Party Committee in Hung Dao has basically overcome the difficulties. The most difficult thing for us is the source of cadres to be hamlet chiefs. We are looking for a source of cadres so that the Party cells in the congress can introduce truly prestigious Party members to run for the position of hamlet chief so that the people can elect them. This position is not only a prestigious person, responsible to the community but also a Party member. Because in the 2015 - 2017 term, the commune had 7/14 hamlets where the hamlet chief was not a Party member, causing certain difficulties in carrying out political tasks in the village and hamlet.

PV:Thank you!

Thanh Duy

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