Clarify limitations, specify responsibilities to find solutions

The discussion session at Group 3 included elected provincial People's Council delegates from the districts of Thanh Chuong, Nghia Dan, Tan Ky, Yen Thanh and Thai Hoa town. Comrade Trinh Van Nha - Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Thanh Chuong district, Head of the group of provincial People's Council delegates in Thanh Chuong chaired the discussion session at Group 3.

Attending the discussion at Group 3 were members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee: Nguyen Nam Dinh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council and Bui Thanh An - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Comrade Thai Thi An Chung - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; leaders of a number of provincial departments, branches and sectors and district-level units.

Need to specify responsibility for restrictions

At the beginning of the discussion session, in addition to expressing excitement about many bright spots in the province's socio-economic development management in 2023; delegate Lo Thi Kim Ngan (Thanh Chuong district) raised concerns and requested the Provincial People's Committee, departments and branches to analyze and "dissect" the causes in depth, especially the subjective causes in terms of state management and responsibilities of all levels and branches, thereby proposing synchronous, drastic and effective solutions to the limitations pointed out related to state management of land, minerals and environmental protection; solving the shortage of residential land and production land and reducing the rate of poor households in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

Also paying attention to the report on the implementation of the socio-economic development plan for 2023 and the tasks for 2024; delegate Tran Ngoc Son (Tan Ky district) suggested that the Provincial People's Committee should clearly identify the "bottlenecks" in the 4 targets that were not achieved in 2023; which problems are due to mechanisms and policies, which problems are due to objective and subjective factors, and the clear responsibilities of each sector, unit, and locality, so that the Provincial People's Council can make a comprehensive assessment and issue appropriate resolutions in 2024.

Giving his opinion on the discussion, delegate Le Van Luong (delegate of Thai Hoa town) pointed out a number of difficulties and problems in converting and arranging the Youth Volunteer Force teams, requesting the province to pay attention to solving them; delegate Hoang Phu Hien affirmed the province's efforts to stick with the Central Government to attract investment resources for transport infrastructure and to clarify the causes and solutions for the slow disbursement of public investment capital as well as the implementation of two key projects, Cua Lo deep-water port and Vinh airport.

A limitation was also discussed by delegates: Pham Tuan Vinh (Thai Hoa town), Trinh Van Nha (Thanh Chuong district), Tran Ngoc Son (Tan Ky district) related to the field of digital transformation; the rate of people participating in online public services is still limited, mainly being done directly by grassroots civil servants or guiding people...

Speaking at the discussion group, comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council emphasized many bright spots in socio-economic development, especially attracting FDI investment, ranking in the top 10 nationwide and the development momentum in the coming years to ensure maintaining this position.

Some targets have not been achieved, including the growth rate, although it has not reached the planned target, but compared to the average growth rate of the whole country and the target assigned by the Provincial People's Council, it has reached a higher level; budget revenue reached 112% of the target assigned by the Provincial People's Council.

Regarding the tasks for 2024, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Nam Dinh requested the Provincial People's Committee, provincial departments and branches to focus on advising and building special and outstanding policy mechanisms, submitting to the National Assembly to issue a new resolution for Nghe An province to concretize Resolution No. 39 of the Politburo on the development of Nghe An province to 2030, with a vision to 2045.

Focus on developing a plan to reorganize administrative units at district and commune levels, expand the administrative boundaries of Vinh city to submit to the National Assembly Standing Committee for approval of a resolution for implementation; in which, focus on developing a plan to reorganize the apparatus, staff and handle redundant facilities in the plan to reorganize administrative units.

The Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council also noted that all levels and sectors should pay attention to implementing and putting into practice the resolutions issued by the Provincial People's Council; review and abolish ineffective, fragmented, and small-scale policies and propose to issue strong enough policies to promote development; pay attention to resolving voters' recommendations with quality and efficiency.

Human resource problem in education and health sector

In Group 3, the issue that many delegates of the Provincial People's Council, leaders of localities and provincial departments and branches were interested in discussing was human resources in the education and health sectors.

Delegate Nguyen Duc Hong (Yen Thanh district) reflected on the shortage of teachers at all levels, especially primary and preschool, and the increasing number of teachers requesting early retirement or transferring to other jobs; this affects the stability and quality of education at all levels.

In addition to the shortage of primary and preschool teachers, delegates Phan Thi Minh Ly (Yen Thanh district) and Trinh Van Nha (Thanh Chuong district) reflected on the problem of local surplus and shortage of secondary school teachers; leading to the situation of cross-subject teaching and inter-school teaching, affecting the quality of teaching, especially when the subjects being trained and the subjects being taught are not related to each other.

Therefore, in the situation of teacher shortage, the temporary solution is to arrange cross-subject teaching. However, the education sector needs to pay attention to the arrangement and transfer, paying attention to ensuring harmony between teachers' abilities and strengths.

Some delegates also proposed that the province pay attention to policies for teachers assigned to teach inter-school, teachers from schools assigned to work at the Department of Education; ensure proper implementation of regulations for teachers who teach overtime; pay attention to creating a safe and healthy educational environment...

Based on the opinions of the delegates, the leaders of the Departments of Home Affairs, Health, and Education and Training received and directly explained the issues under their authority and management responsibilities. In which, they proposed that the province study the streamlining of staff in the Health and Education sectors, taking into account specific factors.