The Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial People's Council held its regular meeting in July.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation chaired and directed.

Attending the meeting were members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee: Nguyen Nam Dinh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Le Hong Vinh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council and leaders of the Provincial People's Council Committees.

Appreciate the innovation of organizing the 21st Session

At the meeting, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council listened to and gave opinions on the results of the organization of the 21st session of the 18th Provincial People's Council, term 2021 - 2026, held over the past 2 days (July 10 and 11).

This is the first regular meeting of Nghe An Provincial People's Council to be innovated in terms of time, organized in only 2 days (1 session less than previous regular meetings) and reduce the number of direct reports at the hall.

In addition, the session conducted open questioning, in addition to the two groups of contents in the fields of Home Affairs and Industry and Trade, it also expanded to other fields. The number of Provincial People's Council delegates participating in the questioning increased compared to previous sessions (2.25 times higher than the first questioning session of the term).

Through the results of collecting opinions from the Provincial People's Council delegates on the organization of the 21st Session of the Office of the National Assembly Delegation - Provincial People's Council, it was shown that the Provincial People's Council delegates all agreed and highly appreciated the shortening of the session's organization time from 2.5 days to 2 days, especially the session shortened the duration and number of reports, spent more time on discussion, questioning...; thereby, it was suggested that it should continue to be applied to the next regular sessions.

In addition, some delegates suggested that the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council study and consider adding a report on monitoring the settlement of voters' opinions and recommendations between two sessions in order to clarify specific settlement results for voters;...

Immediately after the session, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council directed the revision and completion of 26 resolutions to be submitted to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Council for certification within 5 working days after the closing of the session; issued a report on the results of the session on the afternoon of the closing session to serve voters' meetings; issued 25 documents to forward voters' opinions and recommendations to the Provincial People's Committee, departments, branches and localities to resolve and respond to voters' recommendations via the online telephone line; issued a notice of the conclusion of the question and answer session to organize implementation.

At the regular meeting, the Standing Committee and leaders of the Provincial People's Council Committees and the Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the innovation in the organization of the 21st Session; at the same time, evaluated and learned from the coordination between the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and the Provincial People's Committee, the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; the advisory and service work of the Office of the National Assembly Delegation and the Provincial People's Council, the Office of the Provincial People's Committee in organizing regular meetings of the Provincial People's Council.

At the same time, delegates also expressed some opinions on the composition of the leaders of the drafting agency participating in the verification sessions; solutions to send documents to serve the verification work more promptly; proposed to add some contents to the list of resolutions to be issued in the coming time, such as: requesting the Provincial People's Committee to direct the development of a draft Resolution of the Provincial People's Council on the policy of supporting funding for purchasing voluntary social insurance and health insurance for people living in communes and villages with special difficulties in the period 2015-2020, which are no longer in the category of special difficulties in Decision No. 861/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister and Decision No. 433/QD-UBDT of the Ethnic Committee, to submit to the regular meeting at the end of 2024.

On behalf of the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh expressed his agreement with the innovative method in organizing regular sessions of the Provincial People's Council applied at the recent 21st Session. Although the working time was reduced, all contents were completed with quality, focusing on the set requirements, contributing to concretizing the Project to improve the quality and efficiency of the activities of the 18th Provincial People's Council, term 2021 - 2026.

The Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also clarified the causes and discussed the solutions of the Provincial People's Committee to speed up the progress of building dossiers of draft resolutions to submit to the Committees and the Provincial People's Council before each session; as well as giving comments on some contents to enhance the role and responsibility of the Provincial People's Council delegates in accompanying the State management agencies to promptly resolve practical problems and difficulties; the quality of group discussions at regular sessions of the Provincial People's Council; and resolving voters' recommendations.

At the working session, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council listened to and gave opinions on the report on people's petition work; assessed the results of activities in July 2024; discussed and agreed on tasks for August 2024; in which, regarding people's petition work, the discussion was to clarify the process of handling petitions and letters of feedback from voters sent directly to the full-time delegates of the Provincial People's Council.

Coordinate smoothly and effectively to organize well the Provincial People's Council meetings.

Concluding the regular meeting in July 2024, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Thai Thanh Quy - Chairman of the Provincial People's Council agreed with the delegates' opinions on the results of innovation at the 21st Session, as a basis for continuing to organize the next regular meetings of the Provincial People's Council.

However, accepting the opinions of the provincial People's Council delegates, comrade Thai Thanh Quy noted that the Office of the National Assembly Delegation and the provincial People's Council need to continue to survey to ensure better facilities to serve the organization of regular meetings, especially for group discussions.

Expressing his appreciation for the quality of questioning and answering questions on two main groups of issues in the fields of Home Affairs and Industry and Trade; however, regarding other contents that have not received many opinions from the Provincial People's Council delegates, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Council said that this is an issue that needs to be further disseminated so that delegates can get used to the new method, in order to improve the effectiveness of the questioning and answering sessions organized in an open manner.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy also proposed to accept the delegates' opinions on building a report to monitor the settlement of voters' opinions and recommendations in the direction of clarifying specific settlement results, avoiding general answers.

Regarding the submission of documents of draft resolutions of the Provincial People's Committee for review by the Committees and the Provincial People's Council, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Council of Nghe An suggested that the Provincial People's Committee, in the process of building the annual program, should arrange time to approve the contents at the meetings of the Provincial People's Committee reasonably, and can arrange them evenly throughout the year, especially for contents related to mechanisms and policies to submit for timely review; then have time to absorb, complete, and ensure quality before submitting to the Provincial People's Council for consideration.

For the contents requiring economic and social data for the first 6 months and the whole year, it is necessary to submit to the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee for comments before submitting to the Provincial People's Council. The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province said that in the near future, the Provincial Party Committee Office will be assigned to consider and advise on adjusting the annual working program of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee in the direction of arranging to listen to and give comments on economic and social reports in May and October every year; thereby ensuring that reports related to economic and social data will be prepared in time for the regular mid-year and year-end meetings of the Provincial People's Council. On that basis, it is requested that the Provincial People's Committee prepare economic and social reports in this direction for submission.

Regarding the resolution issuance program of the Provincial People's Council, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Council said that the Provincial Party Standing Committee has agreed to issue a Directive on strengthening the Party's leadership in implementing social insurance and health insurance policies in Nghe An province; including the policy of building support mechanisms and policies. Thereby, agreeing with the opinions of the leaders of the Provincial People's Council's Culture and Social Affairs Committee at the meeting, it is proposed that the Provincial People's Committee and specialized sectors promptly develop a draft resolution of the Provincial People's Council to submit to the regular meeting at the end of 2024.

The Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province discussed and concluded a number of other contents such as: Coordinating and assigning tasks between the Committees of the Provincial People's Council on the basis of functions and tasks as prescribed by law, but needing to ensure flexibility; well performing key tasks in August, including foreign affairs.