State Audit, Standing Committee of People's Council, People's Committee of Nghe An province signed a new coordination regulation

Overview of the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

Attending the conference on the side of the State Audit were comrade Tran Sy Thanh - Member of the Party Central Committee, State Auditor General and members of the delegation.

Working with the delegation on the side of Nghe An province were comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee and a number of departments, branches, etc.

PRACTICAL AND APPROPRIATE COORDINATION CONTENT

Since 2014, the State Audit and the Standing Committee of the People's Council and the People's Committee of Nghe An province have signed a Coordination Regulation. On that basis, the coordination between the parties has gradually become regular and brought about practical results in aspects such as: planning, conducting audits; conclusions, audit recommendations; monitoring, examining, deciding on budget estimates and approving budget settlements, managing and operating local budgets; supervising the activities of the audit team and State auditors.

Comrades: Tran Sy Thanh - Member of the Party Central Committee, State Auditor General; Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province co-chaired the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

The two sides have also coordinated in training and improving knowledge in the field of finance and budget for elected representatives; building, amending, supplementing and propagating draft laws, legal documents, documents on policies and regimes related to the activities of the State Audit and the People's Council and People's Committee of Nghe An province according to the functions and tasks prescribed by law.

After 7 years of implementation, it has been shown that the issuance of the Coordination Regulations between the State Audit and the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and People's Committee is necessary; the coordination contents are practical, suitable to the requirements and tasks of the agencies.

The results of the coordination activities have contributed to improving the effectiveness of each agency's work. The audit work has helped the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and the Provincial People's Committee to correctly assess the advantages, shortcomings and limitations in the direction, administration, management, use of the budget, management and use of public assets and resources in the province; at the same time, contributing to improving the quality of supervision of financial and budgetary activities of the Provincial People's Council.

The information and data exchanged between the State Audit and the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and People's Committee have had a positive effect on the provincial authorities and functional agencies in developing and implementing socio-economic development plans, budget estimates, preventing and combating corruption and waste, and promoting the people's supervisory role in the activities of State agencies, organizations and individuals assigned to manage and use State money and assets.

At the same time, with the active and effective coordination of the People's Council and People's Committee of Nghe An province, it has contributed to helping the State Audit successfully complete the annual audit plan.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province delivered the opening speech at the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

Speaking at the opening of the conference, after informing some basic features of the province's socio-economic situation and highly appreciating the effectiveness of the implementation of the Coordination Regulations between the parties, on behalf of the provincial leaders, Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung respectfully thanked the State Auditor General, the leaders, the State Audit agencies and units, especially the State Audit officers directly conducting audits in Nghe An for their coordination and support to Nghe An province in the recent past.

The Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province emphasized that it is extremely necessary to continue implementing the Coordination Regulations between the State Audit Office and the Standing Committee of the People's Council and People's Committee of Nghe An province, based on assessment, summary and adjustment of a number of contents in accordance with the new spirit, requirements and new regulations.

The head of the People's Committee of Nghe An province believes that, with the results achieved over the past 7 years, in the coming time, the State Audit, the Standing Committee of the People's Council, and the People's Committee of Nghe An province will continue to effectively implement the new coordination regulations in the coming time. Nghe An province commits to closely coordinate with the State Audit to implement the new coordination regulations.

Delegates attending the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

After discussing and evaluating the results achieved, existing problems, limitations, and future directions, the parties agreed on the content and signed the new Regulation on coordination between the State Audit and the Standing Committee of the People's Council and People's Committee of Nghe An province to replace the Regulation on coordination implemented from 2014 to present.

This is a task that is assessed by the leaders of the State Audit, the Standing Committee of the People's Council, and the People's Committee of Nghe An province as very important and necessary to well perform the functions, tasks, and responsibilities of the parties and improve the efficiency and effectiveness in coordination activities; in line with the orientation of building e-Government, the Law on State Budget and the amended and supplemented Law on State Audit.

Comrades: Tran Sy Thanh - Member of the Party Central Committee, State Auditor General; Thai Thanh Quy -Member of the Party Central Committee,Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Nghe An province, Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province and delegates signed the Coordination Regulations. Photo: Thanh Duy

CLOSE COOPERATION TO ENSURE HIGHEST EFFICIENCY

Speaking at the conference, comrade Tran Sy Thanh - Member of the Party Central Committee, State Auditor General shared that after 27 years of establishment, the State Audit has been recognized by the Party, the State, and the National Assembly, confirming its very clear legal position, which has been stipulated in the Constitution. This is a very progressive institution, consistent with the development trend of building a socialist rule-of-law state; its functions and tasks have been clearly defined in the amended and supplemented Law on State Audit. The State Audit system is currently located in 13 regions, including State Audit Region 2 headquartered in Vinh City, Nghe An.

Comrade Tran Sy Thanh - Member of the Party Central Committee, State Auditor General spoke at the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

In addition to the efforts of leaders and audit staff through generations, the State Auditor General emphasized the very important and great role and attention of the leaders of the Party, State, National Assembly, Government; as well as localities in accompanying the State audit system to achieve the current development, especially localities where the State Audit is headquartered.

Comrade Tran Sy Thanh expressed his sincere thanks to the generations of leaders of Nghe An province through the periods, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, the People's Council, the People's Committee, the departments and branches for regularly coordinating and assisting the Audit of Region 2 during the past 20 years of formation and development.

Discussing some orientations of the State Audit in the coming time, the State Auditor General emphasized the mindset for common development; the view is that after the audit, in addition to jointly overcoming shortcomings and limitations, ministries, branches, localities and enterprises will have good conditions and environment, confidently advise, propose and handle situations and problems with the viewpoint of daring to think, daring to do and daring to take responsibility.

Therefore, to effectively implement the coordination regulations between the State Audit and the Standing Committee of the People's Council and the People's Committee of Nghe An province, comrade Tran Sy Thanh requested the parties to assign focal points, discuss and develop annual plans for implementation, avoiding overlap; at the same time, he hoped that Nghe An province would continue to pay attention and create conditions for the State Audit of Region 2 to effectively perform the assigned professional tasks.

The State Auditor General wished the Party Committee, Government and people of all ethnic groups in Nghe An province, the homeland of President Ho Chi Minh, to continue promoting traditions, especially the tradition of solidarity and unanimity, to turn them into driving force and resources, and together with the aspiration to continue to develop the province faster and stronger.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council spoke at the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

In his response speech, Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council highly appreciated the relationship and effective coordination between the State Audit and the Standing Committee of the People's Council and People's Committee of Nghe An province.

In the coming time, to effectively implement the coordination program, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy affirmed that the province will be extremely responsible and actively direct relevant agencies to coordinate with Regional Audit 2 to implement from the planning stage, audit implementation, implementation of audit conclusions, and dissemination of related regimes, policies, and laws;...

Thereby, the audit planning will be better, closer, avoiding overlap, ensuring the audit process is carried out in accordance with the provisions of law. As soon as the audit conclusions and recommendations are available, Nghe An province will direct relevant agencies and audited agencies to implement the conclusions.

State Audit leaders awarded the Medal "For the cause of State Audit". Photo: Thanh Duy

Leaders of the State Audit presented the Medal "For the cause of State Audit". Photo: Thanh Duy

Nghe An province hopes that the State Audit will increase the sharing and provision of professional information, especially specialized and in-depth information on some very sensitive areas of State management in the area such as: Land recovery, protection of natural resources, environment, State management of minerals, "suspended" projects, slow-progressing projects, etc. Thereby, helping the province have in-depth professional information, contributing to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of State management, promoting the most effective use of natural resources and public assets;...

The head of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee also hopes that the State Audit will continue to help the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and People's Committee to deploy training and update knowledge on finance and budget for elected representatives and authorities at all levels to ensure the most effective financial and budgetary operation process.

Leaders of Nghe An province presented souvenirs to the State Audit. Photo: Thanh Duy

State Audit leaders donated 5 billion VND to support Nghe An province in preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic. Photo: Thanh Duy

Conference delegates take souvenir photos. Photo: Thanh Duy

Believing and expecting that the relationship between the State Audit and Nghe An province will develop even better, the Provincial Party Secretary hopes that in the coming time, the State Auditor General, State Audit units, and Audit Region 2 will continue to share and help Nghe An to develop further, achieve development goals, and improve people's lives.

On this occasion, the State Auditor General awarded the "For the Cause of State Audit" Medal to 11 individuals and donated 5 billion VND to Nghe An province to serve the work of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic.