Nghe An: New regulations to assess the quality of Party cell activities

Comrade Bui Thanh An - Member of the Standing Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Committee attended the party cell's painting in Yen Thanh district. Photo: Van So

The regulation has 3 chapters and 6 articles.

On September 15, 2021, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee issued Regulation No. 08-QD/TU on regulations for assessing the quality of Party cell activities. This is a very important regulation, which will help Party cell committees and Party cell secretaries have a basis to organize Party cell activities in accordance with the correct procedures and steps according to regulations, thereby organizing Party cell activities more seriously, more scientifically, more systematically and with better quality. Thereby, it helps to assess the leadership and management capacity of Party cell committees, Party cell secretaries and deputy secretaries, and the quality of Party members.

Assigned by the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, since the beginning of 2021, the Provincial Party Committee's Organizing Committee has researched and drafted a plan to collect opinions from all Party organizations, departments, branches and unions in the whole province, conducted surveys and consulted a number of provinces to grasp the contents that need to be learned from experience after the implementation period at the grassroots level. On that basis, the Provincial Party Committee's Organizing Committee has completed and submitted it to the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee according to regulations.

Regulation No. 08-QD/TU, dated September 15, 2021 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on assessing the quality of life includes 3 chapters and 6 articles.

Chapter I: General provisions, has 2 articles, including Article 1: Scope of regulation; Article 2: Principles of quality assessment.

Chapter II: Content and assessment methods, has 3 articles, including Article 3:On criteria for assessing the quality of Party cell activities; Article 4: Assessment method; Article 5: Use of assessment results.

Chapter III: Implementation provisions, with Article 6: Implementation organization. The second part is the appendix of the Criteria Table for Scoring the Quality of Regular Party Cell Activities and 4 appendices of Criteria Tables for Scoring the Specialized Activities are attached.

Subjects of application of this regulationfor both regular and thematic activities for grassroots party cells, party cells directly under grassroots party committees, and party cells directly under department party committees in the entire Nghe An Provincial Party Committee. The principles for evaluating the quality of party cell activities must be seriously implemented; ensuring the principles of democratic centralism, self-criticism and criticism, solidarity, unity, honesty, objectivity, openness, and transparency.

Vinh Tien village Party cell, Hanh Dich commune, Que Phong district holds a meeting with the Party Committee and Party cell activities. Photo courtesy of KL

The quality of Party cell activities is assessed regularly, according to regulations: Regular activities are held once a month, and specialized activities are held once a quarter. The quality of Party cell activities is one of the criteria for assessing and classifying the quality of Party organizations, Party committees and Party members annually.

Content of criteria for evaluating the quality of Party cell activities (regular and thematic), according to each separate scoring criterion, according to5criteria groups, each criteria group has a corresponding score, the maximum score of the criteria is100Points, specifically: (1) Preparation for Party cell meetings: 20 points; (2) Proportion of Party members attending Party cell meetings: 10 points; (3) Organization of Party cell meetings: 45 points; (4) Implementation of principles for organizing and meeting of Party cell meetings: 15 points; (5) Quality of reports and conclusions at the meeting: 10 points.

Evaluate the quality of Party cell activities according to 4 levels

Evaluate the quality of Party cell activities by scoring and classifying them according to4Level: Good: 80 points or more; Fair: 70 to under 80 points; Average: 50 to under 70 points; Poor: Under 50 points.

The way to score the Party cell meeting is as follows: First, the Party cell secretary (chairing the meeting) assigns one comrade in the Party cell or the meeting secretary to monitor the progress of the Party cell meeting to score.

Second, after approving the minutes of the Party cell meeting, the Party cell committee agrees on the total number of points scored, discusses the results with the Party cell committee members or the superior working group staff (if any); chairs the meeting to inform the Party cell of the score and self-classification; conducts a vote to approve the Party cell on the results of the assessment of the quality of Party cell activities. The Party cell secretary or deputy secretary signs to confirm the results of the Party cell meeting scoring.

Third, after the Party cell meeting, every month for regular meetings and every quarter for specialized meetings (no later than 5 working days), the Party cell submits a score report to the grassroots Party Committee (for grassroots Party cells, it is submitted to the organizing committee of the superior Party Committee), and keeps one copy at the Party cell. The grassroots Party Committee or the organizing committee of the superior Party Committee coordinates with relevant agencies to monitor the Party cell, based on the assessment results of the Party Committee members or the superior working group cadres (if any) attending the Party cell meeting (in the scoring form for regular meetings and specialized meetings, there is a column for assessment by superior cadres) to synthesize the results of the assessment of the quality of activities of each Party cell, and at the end of the year, reports to the competent authority as a basis for assessment and classification of Party cells, cadres and Party members.

The results of quality of life assessment are one of the important criteria for self-assessment, classification of party cells and party members annually.

New regulations on party cell meeting time frame

The time frame for calculating regular meetings from the first to the last meeting of the year is determined by the superior Party Committee, to suit the types of Party cells and the actual situation of each year.

Leaders of Hanh Dich commune, Party cell and Vinh Tien village management board visited the production and life situation of the people. Photo: KL

This is an unprecedented new regulation on assessing the quality of Party cell activities, so there are a number of issues that need attention when promulgating the regulation such as: Adding an administrative procedure for Party cells and Party committees at all levels; the level of honesty of Party cells and Party committees in self-scoring... At the same time, refer to a number of provinces that have promulgated regulations to assess the advantages, disadvantages, and contents that need to be learned from and try to overcome shortcomings so that after promulgating the regulation, it will ensure substance, practicality, persuasion, closeness to reality, and ease of implementation at Party cells and grassroots levels.

After the Provincial Party Standing Committee issued the regulations, the Provincial Party Organizing Committee developed a plan to implement the regulations at all levels, guided the units to thoroughly disseminate the regulations to the Party cells and Party members; clearly identified this as an important content in Party cell activities that all Party cells must regularly carry out to become a routine after each meeting.