The village chief persistently 'sticks with the team and wades through the fields'

(Baonghean.vn) - Quick, enthusiastic, energetic, often "sticking with the team, wading in the fields" - those are the comments of the people of village 3, Long Son commune (Anh Son district) about village chief Nguyen Van Nam.

In 2009, Mr. Tran Van Nam was trusted and elected by the villagers to hold the position of village chief, at that time he was only 27 years old. With the youth and courage of a young party member, during the 7 years of participating in village work, Mr. Tran Van Nam always kept in mind that if he wanted to be trusted and respected by the people, he himself must first be a good example and take the lead.

In terms of work, one must be fair and impartial, and at the same time try to learn from the experiences of those who have gone before on how to mobilize and propagate to make people unite, join hands, maintain security and order, stabilize life, and develop the economy. Because the people trust, respect, and listen to them, all movements and campaigns are actively carried out by the villagers.

Mr. Tran Van Nam (blue shirt) guides people in taking care of rice.

Previously, with 12 hectares of rice land, people had to cultivate in 6 different areas, but now they only have to cultivate in 2 areas, Cua Co and Dong Ngoai, which is very convenient for mechanization in production. This is truly a "land revolution" in the village. Mr. Nam shared: "To get people's support, the conversion was implemented quite systematically, from propaganda to change awareness, to building conversion plans, implementing publicly, democratically the budget, the volume of digging and building traffic, embankments, and land banks for people to discuss implementation plans".

Besides, mobilizing people to build roads is also a great effort of his. People here live mainly on agriculture, so mobilizing is very difficult. With determination, Mr. Nam has brought the issue of building roads to many Party cell meetings to find the most effective and economical way with party members. With the policy of the state and the people working together, in 2015, people in the village contributed 1,700,000 VND in cash per household, focused on digging and filling 12,000 cubic meters of land, 5 households donated 1,500 m2 of land to pour concrete on a 520m long road. In addition, he also mobilized people to contribute 50% of the cost of building and renovating the village cultural house.

Mr. Tran Van Nam checks the economic development model of beekeeping for honey of the people.

Sharing his experience in mobilizing people to participate in building the new rural areas, Mr. Nam said: "In the new rural area building program, the village has organized many meetings from organizations, party cells to village-wide meetings to propagate the role and significance of the program. For individuals who still have questions, we will go to their homes to propagate and explain. If they do not understand once, they will come twice or three times. Whatever it is, only with perseverance can there be success. In addition, I have made all my activities and contributions public so that people in the village know, discuss and check, so people trust me very much. In particular, setting an example and praising typical examples is regularly implemented by the village to encourage and motivate people to follow, creating a vibrant emulation movement in the whole village."

With the unceasing efforts of village chief Tran Van Nam and the consensus of the people, for many years in village 3, Long Son commune, the security and order situation has been stable, people are confident in developing production, life is increasingly improved, the rate of poor households in the village is decreasing, the average income of people reaches 20 million VND/year; the rate of cultural families reaches 85%; sports families reach 90%, thereby contributing to making village 3 a bright spot, leading in the locality in all emulation movements.

Thai Hien