At the 9th session, Nghe An Provincial People's Council plans to question 2 groups of issues.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the meeting. Attending the meeting were comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee: Cao Thi Hien - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department, Head of the Department of Culture - Society, Provincial People's Council; Phan Duc Dong - Secretary of the Vinh City Party Committee, Head of the Legal Department of the Provincial People's Council; Comrade Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee. Photo: Mai Hoa

On the afternoon of June 24, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council held a meeting to discuss preparations for the 9th Session of the Provincial People's Council for the 2016-2021 term, scheduled to take place from July 10-12.

At this session, the Provincial People's Council will review 28 reports and consider and approve 24 draft resolutions within its authority. Up to this point, based on the reports and draft resolutions drafted by the departments and branches; the Standing Committee and the Provincial People's Council Committees have been conducting the review and are expected to complete by June 26.

The activities of contacting voters before the session of the Provincial People's Council delegates have been completed and currently the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council is directing the Provincial People's Council Office to synthesize and classify groups of petitions, proposals and reflections from voters.

Head of the Provincial People's Council's Legal Committee Phan Duc Dong said that it is necessary to focus on questioning two groups of issues related to the protection, care and education of children and the handling of slow-progressing and "suspended" projects. Photo: Mai Hoa

At the meeting, based on the proposed opinions of the Groups, the Provincial People's Council delegates and a number of agencies, the Provincial People's Council Office submitted to the Provincial People's Council Standing Committee three planned questions.

Including handling the problem of "suspended" planning and "suspended" projects in the province; inadequacies in land management, especially urban land management, land for investment projects, illegal land conversion; limitations in the protection, care and education of children, especially child marriage in children under 16 years old, drowning, children violating the law, child abuse, child trafficking...

Based on the opinions of the delegates, concluding the meeting, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Xuan Son said that the selection of the group of questions must be issues that have many opinions and public concerns, and must be presented to all levels and sectors to have solutions to thoroughly resolve. On the other hand, it must cover the responsibilities of all levels and sectors to ensure the requirements of innovation in questions at this session, not just one sector "taking the stage" to answer questions but many sectors and levels answering.

In that spirit, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Council agreed to propose two contents to the Provincial People's Council for questioning at the meeting. These are limitations in the work of protecting, caring for, and educating children, especially the situation of child marriage in children under 16 years old, children drowning, children violating the law, child abuse, child trafficking...; violations in land management, emerging urban land management, management of investment projects, illegal land use conversion...

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Head of the Culture - Social Committee of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Thi Thu Huong contributed her comments to the report summarizing the 5-year implementation of the 2013 Constitution, emphasizing the issue of concern is to strengthen propaganda work widely among all classes of people. Photo: Mai Hoa

Also this afternoon, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council listened to and commented on the report on the results of monitoring the state budget collection in the province in the 2016-2018 period and the report summarizing 5 years of implementing the 2013 Constitution.

The Standing Committee also agreed on a number of tasks for July 2019, focusing on successfully organizing the 9th Session of the Provincial People's Council, term XVII, 2016 - 2020.