Vinh City Party Secretary: There is still irresponsibility in handling voters' opinions
(Baonghean.vn) - Mr. Vo Viet Thanh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of Vinh City Party Committee made the above assessment at the discussion and question-and-answer session at the 6th session of the City People's Council for the 2016-2021 term on the morning of July 10.
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| Mr. Nguyen Van Lu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the City People's Council chaired the question and answer session at the meeting. Photo: Mai Hoa |
Overcoming irresponsibility of officials and civil servants
At the discussion session in the hall, the City People's Council reported the results of the group discussion session on the afternoon of July 9, in which 40 delegates participated with 105 opinions focusing on the city's difficult-to-achieve annual budget revenue target as well as existing and pressing issues in the area.
Speaking at the discussion session in the hall, Vinh City Party Secretary Vo Viet Thanh said that in the summary of opinions in the group discussion session, there were many contents and opinions that, although raised many times by People's Council delegates and voters, have not yet been resolved.
Assessing that this is a manifestation of irresponsibility and disregard for the handling of opinions of People's Council delegates and voters by relevant professional departments, the head of Vinh City Party Committee requested the City People's Council to innovate this work to ensure that the issues raised by the City People's Council must be resolved.
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| Mr. Vo Viet Thanh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of Vinh City Party Committee said that there is still irresponsibility and disregard in handling opinions of People's Council delegates and voters by specialized departments and offices of the City People's Committee. Photo: Mai Hoa |
Regarding this issue, the head of the City People's Committee Nguyen Hoai An accepted that this responsibility belongs to the City People's Committee, specifically the Vice Chairmen of the People's Committee in charge of the fields, the heads of departments and specialized boards have been assigned very specific responsibilities by the City People's Committee.
However, there is a situation where issues reflected by People's Council delegates and voters' recommendations are assigned to specialists of departments to prepare and then transferred to the City People's Council without being checked or supervised by the Vice Chairmen of the People's Committee and specialized departments and departments.
Chairman Nguyen Hoai An also said that this issue is also the responsibility of the City People's Council delegates for not reviewing and checking in the wards and communes (where they were elected) about whether the answers were correct or not, and whether they were accurate or not.
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| Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Hoai An admitted that the City People's Committee has not fulfilled its responsibility in receiving and resolving voters' petitions. Photo: Mai Hoa |
From the existing problems, the head of the City People's Committee affirmed that he would direct to overcome them, include them in the emulation criteria, including the evaluation of cadres; require that everything be specific and assign responsibility for solving them, resolutely not do things carelessly, or leave everything to specialists.
Will borrow from WB to do flood prevention project for the city
From the long-standing problem, the issue raised by many City People's Council delegates at this session is the solution to prevent flooding in the city.
Pointing out the flooding situation on some routes, especially Dang Thai Than route, where just a little rain can cause deep flooding, delegate Dinh Xuan Truong - Secretary of Quang Trung Ward Party Committee requested the City People's Committee to have solutions to overcome it immediately.
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| In some areas of Truong Thi Ward, water flooded half the first floor, people evacuated and climbed to the second floor. Photo courtesy |
Mr. Nguyen Quoc Thang - Head of Urban Management Department said that the main cause of flooding is that the city's infrastructure investment is not synchronous. On the other hand, many roads are currently being built and upgraded in the area, so the connection to the drainage system has not been implemented, causing flooding.
In particular, when the city covered ditches 2 and 3 to ensure environmental sanitation, it caused difficulties in drainage because heavy rains could not flow directly into the ditches.
The Head of the Urban Management Department also informed about some solutions that the city has implemented such as connecting the drainage system between routes, adding new drainage ditches, and dredging drainage routes.
Currently, the city has also directed units to dig more water collection holes on ditches No. 2 and No. 3; at the same time, add and increase the density of water collection manholes on main routes such as Le Nin, Quang Trung, etc.
Mr. Nguyen Quoc Thang admitted that the city's localized flood prevention solutions are not effective and thorough, especially in the inner city.
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| Head of the Urban Management Department Nguyen Quoc Thang admitted that the city's anti-flooding solutions are not effective. Photo: Mai Hoa |
Providing more information on this issue, Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Hoai An said that the city is launching a loan program from the World Bank (WB) to implement a project to prevent flooding in the city with specific works and items such as building Vinh River embankment, upgrading the wastewater treatment plant, installing 3 more pumping stations and building a number of drainage systems. When this project is implemented and put into use, it can completely overcome the city's flooding situation.
Also at the question and answer session, leaders of a number of departments and offices also answered questions on many issues that the City People's Council delegates were interested in, related to promoting solutions to speed up the progress of granting Land Use Right Certificates; relocating historical electric poles; renovating collective housing areas, etc.
During the remaining time of this morning's working session, the City People's Council also discussed and passed 5 important Resolutions and closed the meeting.
Speaking at the closing session, Mr. Nguyen Van Lu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the City People's Council requested the City People's Committee and specialized departments to have greater responsibility in directing, operating, urging, inspecting and rectifying discipline, administrative discipline, attitude and responsibility of civil servants to complete socio-economic targets for the whole year.
The Chairman of the City People's Council also requested that all levels and departments need to strengthen coordination in resolving urgent issues as well as voters' recommendations related to planning; urban order management; site clearance; granting land use right certificates; resolving old collective housing areas; overcoming local flooding, etc.
Mr. Nguyen Van Lu requested the People's Council and People's Council delegates to strengthen supervision and urging so that the People's Council's resolutions and recommendations of the People's Council delegates and voters are effectively implemented and resolved.