Nghe An: Innovation in supervisory activities of People's Councils at all levels

(Baonghean) - Since the beginning of the term, People's Councils at all levels have strengthened innovation, improved the quality and effectiveness of supervisory activities, focusing on contents related to voters' rights.

Supervision is one of the basic and important functions of the National Assembly and People's Councils. In addition to the supervision of the Standing Committee and the People's Council Committees at all levels as before, according to the Law on Supervision Activities of the National Assembly and People's Councils 2015, effective from July 1, 2016, there are additional supervisory activities of People's Councils at all levels.

Although we have to learn from experience while doing it, the practical implementation of the Provincial People's Council and districts, cities and towns in recent times has brought about remarkable results.

The monitoring delegation of the Provincial People's Council learns about the lives of ethnic minorities in Tien Phong commune (Que Phong). Photo: Mai Hoa

For Vinh city, the content of supervision chosen by the City People's Council is urban order management. This is an issue that many people are interested in and is a policy that the City Party Committee, the City People's Committee, functional agencies, and the authorities of wards and communes have been focusing on directing.

To ensure effective supervision, in addition to establishing a core supervision team, the Standing Committee of the City People's Council requires the People's Councils of wards, communes, each group and the City People's Council delegates to participate in supervision.

City People's Council delegates in each ward and commune have a daily monitoring and supervision diary, promptly detect shortcomings in urban order management in the area and are responsible for reporting to the relevant authorities for handling; weekly report to the Standing Committee of the City People's Council their monitoring diary.

Vice Chairman of Vinh City People's Council, Le Van Ngoc shared: "With the supervision method that emphasizes the role of People's Council delegates, the Standing Committee of the City People's Council grasps the activities of delegates, whether they are active or inactive, to correct and improve their responsibilities; at the same time, it also grasps which wards, communes, agencies and units are weak in handling issues that People's Council delegates discover and recommend.

On that basis, the Standing Committee of the City People's Council reports monthly to the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee on related contents, especially clarifying the causes, difficulties and obstacles in handling difficulties and obstacles as well as handling the responsibilities of local authorities and functional agencies.

In particular, through the supervision of the City People's Council and from practical experience, in early August, the Vinh City People's Committee established a Rapid Response Team to handle violations of urban order in the city.

In Thanh Chuong district, in the thematic supervision activities, the District People's Council selected key and urgent contents related to the interests of the majority of people. That is the state management of land, natural resources - environment and the issuance of land use right certificates in the district.

Accordingly, in addition to monitoring through reports for 40/40 communes and towns, the District People's Council also conducted direct monitoring at 14 communes and towns and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, and the Office of Land Use Rights Registration.

Ms. Le Thi Hong Thiet - Vice Chairman of Thanh Chuong District People's Council said that, based on the existing problems, limitations and shortcomings discovered, pointed out and recommended by the District People's Council, the District People's Committee and specialized agencies have actively taken action to overcome them.

For example, the land handling of organizations that have had the decision to recover by the Provincial People's Committee in the town area, after supervision, has been focused on clearing the land and putting it under management according to regulations. Or the environmental protection work in each locality also has many solutions and creates many positive changes after supervision.

At the provincial level, two monitoring sessions at the provincial People's Council level have also been carried out, focusing on two major programs, namely the implementation of the National Target Program on New Rural Development and the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Hoang Viet Duong affirmed that the selection of the People's Council's supervision contents are prominent and key issues related to socio-economics, national defense and security in order to correctly assess the situation, thereby recommending and suggesting many orientations and solutions for all levels and sectors to continue to lead and direct more effectively in the coming time.

For example, in monitoring the implementation of the sustainable poverty reduction program, the Provincial People's Council pointed out 9 shortcomings and limitations in the implementation of the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction in the province.

Specifically, the poverty reduction results are not sustainable, the poverty rate in the province is higher than the national average. The investigation and assessment of poor and near-poor households in some places are not objective and transparent.

Some Party committees and authorities have not really paid attention to poverty reduction work and have not developed specific plans and roadmaps for poverty reduction work. The work of building and replicating poverty reduction models is still limited...

Based on the monitoring results, the Provincial People's Council issued a Resolution on continuing to improve the effectiveness of implementing the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction at the 4th session in July 2017.

It sets out 9 tasks and solutions to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of implementing the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction in the province in the coming time.

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