Nghia Dan strives to reach the new rural district finish line
To complete the criteria for a new rural district, the Party Committee, government, organizations and people of Nghia Dan district have joined hands to carry out many specific projects and tasks. Up to now, through review, the district has basically completed the criteria for building a new rural district, submitting documents to the Provincial People's Committee to submit to the Prime Minister for consideration and recognition of Nghia Dan district meeting new rural standards in 2024.
Efforts from each commune and town
Nghia Son commune is one of two communes in Nghia Dan district that has completed the criteria early and has been recognized by Nghe An province as an advanced new rural commune. Notably, in 2023, Nghia Son commune has not registered to reach the advanced new rural commune finish line, but considering the level of the criteria, in the middle of the year, Nghia Dan district directed the commune to review and complete the dossier to submit to the Provincial People's Committee for consideration and recognition of meeting the advanced new rural standards. Within 6 months of consolidating the criteria and completing the dossier, by the end of 2023, Nghia Son commune will be assessed and recognized by the province as meeting the advanced new rural standards.
Comrade Nguyen Huu Quy - Party Secretary, Chairman of Nghia Son Commune People's Committee happily said: According to the Resolution of the Commune Party Committee, the commune's achievement of advanced new rural standards was completed 1 year earlier. Previously, in 2016, when the commune achieved new rural standards, it also exceeded the plan by 1 year. That proves the outstanding efforts of the Party Committee, government and people in the commune.
Up to now, the average income in the area has reached over 69 million VND/person/year. The poverty rate in the commune is 0.62%; the near-poor household rate is also below 1%. In the period of 2020 - 2023, the commune mobilized nearly 92 billion VND to build new rural areas and advanced new rural areas, of which people contributed nearly 63 billion VND, accounting for 67.6%. Infrastructure has been built synchronously, people's lives in the commune have been increasingly improved. The development of production and livestock farming has been invested by people in the direction of modernity, clean and sustainable agriculture...
Nghia Dan town has just been assessed to have completed the criteria of "civilized urban area" and submitted to the District People's Committee for recognition in 2024. For many years, Nghia Dan town has been a typical unit in performing the tasks of economic and social development, maintaining security, national defense, and building a civilized urban area.
Comrade Ho Manh Hung - Vice Chairman of Nghia Dan Town People's Committee said: "The majority of households in the town are engaged in service business activities, the economy is stable and growing well. From there, people join hands to build a civilized neighborhood, do a good job of ensuring urban order; actively participate in cultural - artistic, physical training - sports activities and implement social security policies well... High awareness and consensus of the people in the area are the core factors for the town to complete 9 criteria, 52 targets of building a civilized urban area.
With the active participation of Party committees, authorities, organizations and the joint efforts of the people, by the end of 2023, all communes of Nghia Dan district had reached the new rural destination, with 2 communes meeting the advanced new rural standards (10.5% of communes). To achieve that result, all communes have issued specialized resolutions; focusing on assessing the current situation and reality of the commune's rural areas, developing practical implementation plans. Party committees and authorities from the commune to the hamlet level closely follow the resolutions of the commune Party Committee and the plans of the commune People's Committee to properly implement the roadmap with many synchronous solutions.
On that basis, the People's Committee of Nghia Dan district has developed a plan to implement the National Target Program on New Rural Development in Nghia Dan district for the period 2022-2025. The departments, branches and sectors of the district have closely followed the plan, tasks and key solutions in each stage to advise on the implementation to ensure compliance with regulations and plans.
At the same time, the Front and mass organizations coordinate with the government to focus on widely propagating the new rural construction program, so that people can clearly understand, promote great solidarity, and arouse the movement of everyone, every household joining hands to build new rural areas, with the motto "working from home to alley, working from alley to street, working from street to field"...
Closely follow the practice, urge implementation
During the implementation of the target program for building new rural communes and districts, the Nghia Dan District New Rural Coordination Office closely followed the grassroots, inspected, guided, and urged agencies, units, and localities to implement the program. At the same time, it monitored, synthesized, reported, supervised, and evaluated the practical situation so that the district steering committee could promptly have solutions to direct the implementation on schedule, ensuring sustainable criteria.
In addition to the central and provincial policies, the People's Committee of Nghia Dan district has advised the district People's Council to issue support mechanisms for communes, specifically: Reward communes that reach the new rural standard with a level of 300-400 million VND, communes that reach the advanced new rural standard with 500 million VND. Encourage cement support for communes that register to meet the new rural standard with 500 tons/commune; for disadvantaged hamlets that register to meet the standard with 120 tons/hamlet; for the remaining hamlets with 80 tons/hamlet, to carry out the construction of rural roads.
From 2015 to 2025, the total amount of cement supporting the construction of new rural areas in Nghia Dan is over 114,157 tons. Of which, the province provided 101,054.15 tons, the district provided 13,103 tons. The district also has many policies to encourage and support schools in the area to build to national standards; promulgate and implement policies to encourage and support the construction of grassroots cultural and medical institutions.
Under the direction of the District Party Committee and the District People's Committee, socio-political organizations in Nghia Dan actively mobilized members to participate in building new rural areas and advanced new rural areas. Specifically: Women's Union with the movement to build "Women's Association of 5 no, 3 clean associated with building adjacent households with clean houses and beautiful gardens"; Veterans Association with the model of "electric lighting lines and lines"; District Youth Union with the program to support the construction of entertainment areas contributing to the completion of cultural institutions at the grassroots level, the program "Lighting up the countryside roads", "National flag road"...; The Farmers' Association implemented the programs "Farmers' garden thanks to Uncle Ho", the model "Fields without pesticide waste"..., the Fatherland Front with the campaign "All people unite to build new countryside and civilized urban areas", launched peak periods of new countryside construction, the model "Electricity lines, flag lines, flower lines - Great solidarity", "bright - green - clean - beautiful - safe" roads.
Investment in new rural construction in Nghia Dan district in the period of 2011-2024 is more than 9,120 billion VND. Of which: State budget 4,611,961 million VND, accounting for 50.5%; local budget 3,911,228 million VND, accounting for 42.8%; people contribute 355,359 million VND, accounting for 3.9%; enterprises support 89,091 million VND, accounting for 1%; The rest is borrowed capital and integrated programs.
Through the discussion, comrade Le Thai Hung - Standing Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the District People's Council added: In order to mobilize capital, manage and use resources effectively and properly, Nghia Dan district directs, guides and implements capital allocation to ensure objectivity, democracy, fairness, focus and key points.
Based on the annual new rural program implementation plan and mobilized capital, the commune-level new rural management board selects specific projects and works to support investment in order to achieve the goal of completing and improving the standards of new rural criteria.
In particular, priority is given to the construction of works serving production, roads, cultural and sports infrastructure in hamlets, schools, medical stations that do not meet standards, etc. People decide on the use of capital contributed by themselves through rural development boards and community supervision. These methods ensure transparency, publicity and create consensus among the people, meeting the requirements of progress and quality of construction of welfare works in hamlets and communes throughout the district.
Nghia Dan District People's Committee has completed the dossier to submit to Nghe An Provincial People's Committee for review, requesting the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to appraise and submit to the Prime Minister to recognize Nghia Dan district as meeting new rural standards in 2024.
