Close to reality to "press the right acupuncture point" on the problem!

(Baonghean) - The quality of the People's Council sessions is extremely important, because this is where the role, capacity and effectiveness of the elected body are comprehensively demonstrated. In 2014, voters in the province continued to acknowledge the innovations and improvements in the quality of the sessions, showing concern and close adherence to reality to "acupuncture" the right pressing issues from the reality of the Provincial People's Council.

Comrade Tran Hong Chau, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, talked with people during the Great Unity festival in Quynh Long commune (Quynh Luu).

Focus on preparation

Faced with the constant movement and progress of life, if the People's Council does not innovate and improve the quality of its activities in general and the quality of its sessions in particular, it will be synonymous with regression and will naturally lose its "mission" - the highest authority in the locality. Faced with the issues raised, in 2014, the Provincial People's Council continued to innovate and create to improve the quality of its sessions, increasingly better fulfilling the role of the elected representative body.

The first innovation is the contact with voters of the Provincial People's Council delegates. Previously, according to the program and plan, the Provincial People's Council often arranged 2-3 delegates to contact voters at one location, but now it has been innovated by each delegate contacting one location; increasing direct contact to the block, hamlet, and voters who are ordinary people. Next, it is to increase the contact with voters by topic, by industry, and by field. From the innovations in the way of contacting voters, it has helped delegates to conduct more contact with voters, listen to more opinions, better understand the nature of problems in practice, to reflect information to the session in the most truthful way, not general, or far from reality.

The effectiveness of the innovation of the Provincial People's Council's activities was demonstrated at two sessions held in 2014. At these sessions, the contents discussed, debated and decided were all issues related to "provincial planning and people's livelihood", such as the quality of medical examination and treatment, qualifications, service attitude of doctors and nurses at medical facilities; quality of food hygiene and safety; unsustainable hunger eradication and poverty reduction; limited labor export management; inadequate vocational training; many attractive projects have not been implemented; targets for new rural construction and construction of national standard schools; return and handover of rural power grid infrastructure; difficulties in agricultural production; lack of production land for people in mountainous areas; slow progress in administrative reform and public service ethics of officials and civil servants; quality of domestic water for people is not guaranteed...

Thanks to closely following reality and "acupuncture" the people's concerns, the issues raised in the discussion or questioning sessions are always "hot". Through monitoring and statistics, at each session of the Provincial People's Council, 90 - 98% of delegates give their opinions, with 260 - 300 contents and issues in the discussion session in groups; 16 - 25 delegates give their opinions in the hall; 27 - 50 opinions in the discussion session to pass the resolution; 6 - 12 delegates give their questions with 12 - 23 issues raised in the questioning session... These telling numbers have shown the "hotness" and the concerns and responsibilities of the Provincial People's Council delegates. Thanks to that, the Provincial People's Council sessions in recent times have attracted the attention of a large number of voters in the province. Each session has 40 - 60 voters sending their opinions through the hotline and citizen reception department...

Highlighting the role of the chair

Along with careful and rigorous preparation and selection of contents that closely follow the reality of social life, the Provincial People's Council has also focused on enhancing the role of the chair in conducting the meetings. At the meetings, the chair is "assigned roles", each person is "in charge" of running a session to focus deeply and firmly on each content and when running, there are issues of orientation and suggestion for delegates; there is a conclusion, "closing" the work that has been done, the work that has not been done, clarifying the objective and subjective causes as well as the responsibilities of each agency, department and branch to propose highly feasible measures and solutions.

The Provincial People's Council also took the initiative to assign the Provincial People's Council Committees and Delegation Groups (each district level has 1 delegation group) to carefully study the issues, prepare a set of questions and assign delegates to question deeply, clearly and focus on each issue at the discussion and questioning sessions. Thanks to that, the situation of delegates not having a firm grasp of the issues, they raised interpretative questions, asked to get information, even asked for the sake of it, not within the authority of the respondent as in previous sessions was overcome. The chair clearly expressed his attitude towards the respondent, especially the need to absorb the opinions of the questioning delegates to answer in writing, at the same time learn from experience and have specific and timely measures to address the issues raised by the delegates. During the questioning sessions, while waiting for the delegates to speak, the session chair inserted the opinions of voters sent to the session via the hotline, requesting the sector leaders to answer and clarify the issues raised by the voters. According to delegate Nguyen Thi Quynh Nga (Thanh Chuong), the question and answer sessions in recent provincial People's Council meetings have shown the "heat" and responsibility and concern of provincial People's Council delegates with issues of concern to voters.

In addition to the innovation in the role of chairperson, clearly assigning responsibilities to delegates and delegation groups in the question and answer session, the success of the Provincial People's Council meetings in the past year also showed that the issues decided at the meeting were implemented and resolved. At the closing sessions, the chairman of the meeting, Comrade Tran Hong Chau - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, assigned specific tasks to relevant levels and sectors to actively implement. For the Provincial People's Committee, it is necessary to urgently develop specific plans and solutions, mobilize all resources to effectively implement the Resolutions passed by the Provincial People's Council. For the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee and member organizations in the political system, it is necessary to closely coordinate with the People's Council and People's Committees at all levels in all areas of activity. The Standing Committee, the Provincial People's Council Committees, the delegation groups and the Provincial People's Council delegates promptly met with voters after the meeting to report the results of the meeting and respond to voters' opinions and recommendations before the meeting; Actively perform the duties of elected representatives, make recommendations and proposals on issues of concern to voters, contributing to the excellent completion of the province's political tasks.

Through monitoring the movements after the session, we found that the instructions of the session chair were all seriously implemented. For the Standing Committee and the People's Council Committees, the Provincial People's Council delegates regularly urged the Provincial People's Committee and the sectors to fulfill their promises at the session; urged to resolve voters' recommendations, proposals, and reflections; conducted monitoring and survey activities to find out shortcomings and difficulties in order to make recommendations and timely solutions... And finally, with the receptiveness, after each session, the Provincial People's Council Standing Committee organized to draw experience from the session, which is the way for the Provincial People's Council sessions to continue to be innovated and improve the quality in order to increasingly better perform the role of the highest authority in the locality.

Minh Chi