Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee: Do not let quality ideas and initiatives be 'lost' in the middle stage

Overview of the Dialogue Conference. Photo: Thanh Cuong

PROMOTING PUBLIC ETHICS OF EACH OFFICIAL AND CIVIL SERVANT

At the Dialogue Conference between the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee with department-level management leaders and experts in the Bloc of Agencies of Nghe An province, comrade Tran Anh Tuan - Acting Head of the Press - Publishing Department, Department of Information and Communications asked: The increase in the PCI ranking of Nghe An in 2022 is a remarkable effort of the Party Committee, government, all levels and sectors in the province. What is the opinion of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee so that the PCI Index will continue to improve in the coming time?

According to the recent announcement, in 2022, Nghe An's PCI Index achieved the highest absolute score ever, reaching 66.6 points, ranking 23rd out of 63 provinces and cities, ranking 3rd in the North Central region. Compared to 2021, the province's PCI Index increased by 1.86 points, up 7 places, the Business Support Index ranked 3rd in the country. Compared to 2015, the absolute score of Nghe An's PCI Index in 2022 increased by 8.1 points.

Comrade Tran Anh Tuan - Acting Head of the Press and Publishing Department, Department of Information and Communications asked a question. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Answering the above question, through analyzing the PCI rankings of Nghe An over the years, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Thong commented: The progress in relation to other localities, provinces and cities seems to be unstable. This is something that needs to be paid close attention to in order to ensure absolute increase in score. In particular, in the 10 PCI component indexes in 2022, some component indexes still have low rankings such as: Labor training (48/63), Land access (45/63), Time costs (42/63), Market entry (46/63); Informal costs (33/63)

"Why is the absolute score increasing steadily, but there is such a situation?", the Standing Deputy Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee asked and said that the reason is related to site clearance work; investment boundaries are still spread out; general development planning and land use planning are numerous but not synchronized; between enterprises and localities there is often no common voice on labor issues.

In particular, through research on feedback from businesses and people, it is shown that the service quality of officials and civil servants has some problems. This stems from the fact that there are still harassment and negativity somewhere; the sense of responsibility and attitude of officials and civil servants in the process of implementing requests and requests from businesses and people are not good.

“We often think and talk negatively, harass, are indifferent, uncaring, and irresponsible, but the reason that significantly impacts administrative reform is the capacity of officials,” Comrade Nguyen Van Thong emphasized and noted the need to implement solutions to deal with this problem.

Nghe An's position compared to 63 provinces and cities nationwide from 2006 to 2022. Photo: Thanh Duy

Regarding the upcoming orientation, to improve the PCI Index, Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee suggested that it is necessary to continue promoting and consolidating the positive results and indicators achieved in the past time; accurately and fully identify the causes leading to bottlenecks in the component indicators; thereby, focusing on solving and improving the quality of the component indicators, such as land access through increasing the quality of planning and land use to both meet the requirements of investors and be consistent with the local master plans, doing a good job of propaganda and mobilizing people in site clearance, improving the efficiency of land use for each project.

Regarding the processes, procedures, attitudes, and service quality of the state management apparatus at all levels, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Thong said that it is necessary to continue reviewing and reducing administrative procedures; enhancing the role of internal regulations in the agency, at the same time, promoting public ethics for each civil servant and public employee in each working position, especially, strictly handling officials and public employees who violate the unit's regulations, even from a legal perspective.

At the same time, attention should be paid to creating conditions for investors to achieve their goals of entering the market, promoting production and business efficiency; especially, support in economic crisis situations, epidemics, etc. to improve the market entry index.

Regarding labor training, although Nghe An's training is quite good, this index is still low. Accordingly, there needs to be appropriate solutions, especially stricter requirements on housing, healthcare, schools, etc. when planning projects to attract workers to stay in the province to work, not "leave home".

MECHANISM TO ENCOURAGE OFFICIALS TO "DARE 6"

Also at the conference, comrade Nguyen Tuan Tai - Head of Technical Infrastructure Department, Department of Construction asked the Provincial Party Standing Committee to give opinions on encouraging cadres to implement "6 dares": Dare to think, dare to speak, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, dare to innovate, be creative, dare to face difficulties, challenges and be resolute in action for the common good, as well as a mechanism for cadres at the department level to propose creative, innovative and breakthrough ideas?

Comrade Nguyen Tuan Tai - Head of Technical Infrastructure Department, Department of Construction asked a question. Photo: Thanh Cuong

The regulation to encourage and protect "6 dares" cadres will be the political and legal basis to ensure two issues: First, all cadres, party members, and citizens have equal rights to propose ideas and projects and become "dare" subjects for the common good, for the development of the country; second, all Party organizations, authorities at all levels, branches, agencies, units - levels with the authority to decide and approve projects must have the responsibility to encourage, consider, protect and take responsibility for ideas and projects belonging to the "6 dares" for the common good, for the development of the country, for the happiness of the people and are currently being concretized by the Central Government.

Regarding this content, comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee emphasized the province's strong viewpoint on implementing the above "6 dares" spirit such as encouraging the spirit of innovation, dynamism, and creativity of cadres and civil servants in the political system at all levels; enhancing democracy and responsibility in work from each individual,...

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee responded to delegates' opinions. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the same time, according to the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, leaders of provincial departments, branches and sectors need to have enough capacity and ability to "dare" to accept ideas from subordinates.

In particular, comrade Nguyen Van Thong affirmed: In the future, the province will certainly have a mechanism to handle proposals and initiatives from subordinate officials, and an information mechanism so that quality ideas and initiatives are not "lost" in the intermediary stage (departments, branches and district levels).

At the same time, it is necessary to review, supplement and amend regulations on the implementation of current management principles to correctly identify the motives and purposes of "daring"; increase dialogue activities through various channels: Party activities, dialogues, etc.