The Provincial Fatherland Front Committee deploys the tasks of the Advisory Council in 2023

Conference scene. Photo: Mai Hoa

Currently, the Vietnam Front Committee of Nghe An province has 3 advisory councils with 29 members, including the Democracy - Law Advisory Council; the Culture - Society Advisory Council; and the Economic Council.

In 2022, the activities of the advisory councils will focus on participating with the Standing Committee of the Committee.Fatherland FrontVietnam Provincial People's Committee performs supervisory functions and tasks such as: participating in the delegation to supervise the implementation of the law on receiving citizens, handling complaints and denunciations of citizens against the People's Court and the People's Procuracy at the provincial and district levels in the province; supervising the implementation of the National Target Program.socio-economic development of ethnic minority areasand mountainous areas in 2022; supervise in writing the cultivation and training of ethics and lifestyle of leaders, key officials and cadres and party members in 2022.

Mr. Le Van Ngoc - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province chaired the conference. Photo: Mai Hoa

The advisory councils have organized criticism and sent members to participate in social criticism of draft documents organized by the Standing Committee of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee related to draft laws, important policies and resolutions of the province.

Notable examples include criticism of the draft Law on Grassroots Democracy; the draft revised Land Law; the draft resolution and draft project of the Provincial Party Committee on strengthening the Party's leadership to improve the effectiveness of implementing the strategy for sustainable development of the marine economy to 2030, with a vision to 2045; the draft Planning of Nghe An province for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050...

Mr. Hoang Viet Duong - former Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council gave his opinion on a number of solutions to improve the quality of the advisory councils' feedback activities. Photo: Mai Hoa

The advisory council members also contributed comments on 35 draft documents on projects, resolutions, decisions on programs, plans and other legal documents sent by the Provincial People's Committee, agencies, departments and branches to the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee for comments.

Such as the draft resolution of the Provincial People's Council on special support policies for full-time civil servants working in citizen reception at the Citizen Reception Committee at the provincial and district levels in Nghe An province; the draft resolution of the Provincial People's Council regulating tuition fees in public educational institutions in the province from the 2022-2023 school year; the draft regulations of the Politburo on controlling power, preventing and combating "group interests", corruption, and negativity in law-making work...

Mr. Ho Ba Vo - Chairman of the Advisory Council for Democracy and Law said that members of the advisory councils need to proactively research to propose and advise on the contents that need to be debated by the Standing Committee of the Provincial Fatherland Front. Photo: Mai Hoa

At the conference, the participants also frankly pointed out a number of limitations and difficulties. It is noteworthy that members of the advisory councils who are current officials have little time to actively participate; for members who are retired officials, information is scarce, information is slow, and access to reality is limited, which affects the quality of comments and criticism, especially in specialized fields.

On the other hand, in the criticism activities, the councils and members of the councils have not proactively studied legal documents to detect inadequacies, propose to competent authorities to amend or abolish them; proactively grasp and propose criticism of issues that the public is interested in, concerned about, and reported by the press.

Besides, sending documents for comments from the Provincial People's Committee and departments and branches in a short period of time causes passivity and affects the quality of comments and comments.

Mr. Le Tien Hung - former Director of the Provincial Department of Education and Training, member of the Cultural and Social Advisory Council, gave his opinion on solutions to improve the activities of the councils. Photo: Mai Hoa

To continue improving the quality of the advisory councils' activities, the conference discussed key tasks and solutions that need to be focused on in 2023. In particular, it emphasized the requirement for each member of the advisory councils to make efforts, improve their responsibility, proactively research and survey the reality to proactively propose to the Standing Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front of the province the content that needs to be criticized; at the same time, actively participate in the activities of giving comments and criticism on documents proposed by the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, Provincial People's Committee and departments and branches.

On the responsibility side, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee is concerned with providing information and current regulations and proactively sending documents to councils and council members to contribute and provide better quality comments and feedback in the coming time.

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