Major General Nguyen Huu Cau: Stop granting construction permits for new hydropower plants across the province.

On the morning of December 4, the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, including Mr. Le Quang Huy - Vice Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee on Science and Technology; Major General Nguyen Huu Cau - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Director of Nghe An Provincial Police, had a meeting with voters after the 8th session at the Con Cuong District Cultural Center.

View of the voter meeting. Photo: My Nga

On behalf of the National Assembly delegation, delegate Le Quang Huy summarized the results of the 8th session of the 14th National Assembly. The National Assembly passed many important and breakthrough mechanisms and policies, especially: Resolution approving the Master Plan for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the 2021-2030 period with large resources; supreme supervision of the National Assembly on fire prevention and fighting; passed 11 bills and considered 10 other bills; reviewed State budget expenditures for socio-economic development in 2020.

Delegate Le Quang Huy informed voters about the content of the 8th session of the 14th National Assembly, as well as the activities of the Nghe An National Assembly delegation at the session. Photo: My Nga

Many issues are reflected

Voter Kha Van Van suggested that it is necessary to review the way of assessing the criteria for poor households. There are still many shortcomings, especially the equalization in the way of calculating points for livestock and vehicles, because in reality there is a difference in the value of each livestock and vehicle assessed.

Regarding education, voters mentioned a number of issues such as: requesting the State to support lunch and exempt tuition fees for preschool children. The current difficulty in paying salaries for teachers who take care of children in preschools, because these nutrition staff are currently paid 2 million VND/month by the school and parents. Due to low income, it is not possible to retain nutrition staff in schools and classes. In addition, opinions also suggested supporting lunch allowances for preschool teachers.

Voters of Lang Khe commune hope that all levels and sectors will pay attention to supporting policies for the embankment project along Lam River. Currently, households living in this area are at risk of many risks and great losses due to landslides, especially during the rainy season.

There were 13 comments from voters sent to the National Assembly delegation. Photo: My Nga

The representative of the District People's Procuracy mentioned some difficulties in implementing and combating human trafficking and fetal trafficking, because there are currently no guiding documents and specific sanctions. In addition, the implementation of temporary detention according to the Criminal Procedure Code still faces many difficulties. According to regulations, temporary detention is only allowed for 3 days, but for some agencies with the authority to make temporary detention such as border guards, temporary detention is still difficult. Because the border guards are located far away, the management area is large; meanwhile, the short detention time leads to the implementation of some initial steps not being completed.

Many voters expressed their indignation about the shortcomings in the Chi Khe hydropower plant's slow payment of compensation to the people, causing the benefits and lives of the people to not be stable. Voters reflected on the allocation of protective forests to people with land for production; support for families in the forest protection area; review of policies for people with meritorious services to the revolution; and poor patients who have not yet received support for transportation costs.

Stop licensing new hydropower construction

At the meeting with voters, receiving voters' recommendations related to electricity, roads, and stations, Major General Nguyen Huu Cau said that these are completely valid wishes of voters. In order to improve the lives of people in mountainous areas, the National Assembly recently passed the Project on overall development of mountainous areas, and districts 30a like Con Cuong benefit greatly from the Project.

Delegate Nguyen Huu Cau suggested that in the coming time, the district should proactively receive support sources to focus on using them in a focused manner; at the same time, he hoped that voters would trust the Party and State's guidelines and policies.

Major General Nguyen Huu Cau - Director of Nghe An Provincial Police directly responded to recommendations within his authority. Photo: My Nga

Regarding the issue of hydropower in the area, Major General Nguyen Huu Cau said that recently, all levels and sectors have reviewed the number of hydropower plants in the whole province and found that putting hydropower plants into operation contributes a lot to the overall socio-economic development, however, the consequences from hydropower are very large. Therefore, the province is currently stopping the construction of new hydropower plants.

“Loss of productive land, flash floods, unstable compensation and resettlement, people’s lives face many difficulties. These are the negative aspects of hydropower that the central government, provinces and districts see very clearly and are gradually handling” - Delegate Nguyen Huu Cau affirmed.

Major General Nguyen Huu Cau accepted other recommendations from voters such as raising the payment level for forest environmental services and issues related to education and promised to forward them to relevant ministries and branches for consideration and resolution.