Preventing waste: Positive signals
Let's look back at the anti-corruption work in recent years and it will be clear. I believe that when the head of the country is interested and directly directs, the whole system will actively participate in eliminating the problem of waste. That is a positive signal...
Nhat Lan• November 25, 2024
NIn the early days of November 2024, many social networking sites and personal Facebook pages enthusiastically posted information about the meeting of the Central Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption, waste, and negativity on October 30, 2024, associated with the direction of General Secretary To Lam "determining that preventing and combating waste has an equivalent position to preventing and combating corruption and negativity".
An older colleague also shared his feelings about this content on his personal Facebook page. When asked, he confided: “The General Secretary’s comments on the state of waste are very accurate. Waste causes much more damage to the country than corruption, and is present everywhere, everywhere…”.
He opened the article for me to see.The General Secretary chaired a meeting of the Central Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity.” on the website of the Central Inspection Commission on October 30, 2024. According to the article, in his speech at this meeting, the General Secretary assessed: “Waste is a very big problem, with a very wide scope, and the damage is many times greater than corruption and negativity; there have been many policies and solutions on this issue but they are not effective”. And there is a direction: “While continuing to promote the prevention and fight against corruption and negativity, we must also pay attention to directing the promotion of waste prevention and fight; determining that waste prevention and fight has an equivalent position to corruption prevention and fight against negativity”.
Going back in time, there have been many policies and solutions to prevent and combat waste. A very close example is that on October 11, 2022, the National Assembly's Supervisory Delegation issued Report No. 330/BC-DGS on the results of monitoring the implementation of policies and laws on practicing thrift and combating waste in the period 2016-2021. Then, on November 15, 2022, the National Assembly decided to issue Resolution No. 74/2022/QH15 to promote the implementation of policies and laws on practicing thrift and combating waste.
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In Resolution No. 74/2022/QH15 dated November 15, 2022, the National Assembly assessed the results of implementing policies and laws on practicing thrift and combating waste in the 2016-2021 period, pointing out the existing problems, causes, specific directions, tasks, and general solutions on practicing thrift and combating waste; and also providing detailed information on groups of works and projects causing waste.
As in Nghe An province, the National Assembly announced that there are 95 projects and works that have been delayed for many years, "not only affecting the rights, lives and livelihoods of people whose land has been recovered, but also causing loss of state budget revenue and waste in land use". Among them, in the list of 51 projects and project clusters using public investment capital and other state capital ineffectively or wastefully in the period 2016 - 2021, there is the Ban Mong reservoir project.
In the list of projects and works that have not put land into use or are slow to put land into use in the period 2016 - 2021, there are many projects that are "very familiar" to the press such as: Cau Cau mixed-use tourism, service and resort area (Thanh An commune, Thanh Chuong district), BMC Trade Center, office for rent and luxury apartments (Quan Bau ward, Vinh city); Market and Trade Center (Nghi An commune, Vinh city), BMC Trade Center and high-rise apartment complex (No. 92, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street, Hung Binh ward, Vinh city)...
It is worth mentioning that since the National Assembly issued Resolution No. 74/2022/QH15 on November 15, 2022, up to now, 2 years have passed. But as with the Ban Mong Reservoir Project (started in 2010 with an initial capital of VND 3,744 billion from the state budget, by 2017, an additional VND 1,808 billion had to be added, raising the total investment to VND 5,552 billion), not only was it determined to be behind schedule, causing great waste to the state budget; but on November 1, 2024, the Ministry of Public Security's Investigation Police Agency prosecuted 8 defendants to investigate the acts of "violating accounting regulations causing serious consequences" and "violating bidding regulations causing serious consequences".
Or the Cau Cau mixed-use tourism, service and resort areas, BMC commercial center and high-rise apartment complex..., despite public outrage and press reports, they remain in the same state, with no changes.
Discussing these contents with colleagues, in the direction of having concerns, but for him, when the General Secretary assessed the work of preventing and combating waste as "not effective", directed "must pay attention to directing the promotion of preventing and combating waste; determining that preventing and combating waste has an equivalent position to preventing and combating corruption and negativity", he was very confident that there would be positive changes.
He said: Let's look back at the work of preventing and fighting corruption in recent years. I believe that when the head of the country is interested and directly directs, the whole system will actively participate in eliminating the problem of waste. That is a positive signal...
