The Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial People's Council agreed on many innovative solutions in preparing and organizing meetings.

Overview of the regular meeting in July 2022 of the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial People's Council. Photo: Thanh Duy

REQUEST FOR MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT ON PREPARATION OF DRAFT RESOLUTIONS

The meeting aimed to review the results of the 7th Session of the 18th Provincial People's Council, term 2021 - 2026, which took place from July 12 to July 14, 2022. Accordingly, the preparation and organization of the session were generally carried out carefully, promptly, in accordance with regulations, basically ensuring the progress of the set plan.

Deputy Head of the Culture - Social Committee, Nghe An Provincial People's Council Luc Thi Lien spoke to contribute some lessons learned after the 7th Session. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Provincial People's Council delegates actively participated in activities before, during and after the session. The session promoted democracy and collective intelligence to discuss and decide on many important issues, creating a legal corridor to promote the socio-economic development of the province.

The above results were achieved thanks to the close and decisive leadership and direction of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, the Provincial People's Council Standing Committee, the active activities of the Committees, delegates, and delegations of the Provincial People's Council, especially the full-time delegates in preparing and organizing the session; the coordination between the Provincial People's Council Standing Committee and the Provincial People's Committee, the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee and relevant departments, branches and sectors was closely implemented; 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 ensured professionalism, timeliness and efficiency.

Chief of Office of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Dang Thanh Tung spoke about the coordination work of the Provincial People's Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the meeting, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council drew lessons and agreed on a number of contents to continue improving the quality of preparation and organization of Provincial People's Council meetings.

Concluding this content, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province Thai Thanh Quy emphasized some new contents in the leadership work of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council.

Accordingly, at the monthly regular meeting of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council, the Office of the National Assembly Delegation - Provincial People's Council needs to report on the progress of preparing draft resolutions of the Provincial People's Committee for the next session of the People's Council. To do so, it is required that the Office of the Provincial People's Committee needs to develop a tentative program for preparing the content of the draft resolution to submit to the Provincial People's Council to report to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to assign relevant departments and branches to prepare; at the same time, the Office of the National Assembly Delegation - Provincial People's Council and the Office of the Provincial People's Committee need to have close coordination to prepare this content well to report to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council monthly.

Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province Thai Thanh Quy delivered a concluding speech on the re-evaluation of the results of the 7th Session of the 18th Provincial People's Council. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council also agreed to issue a notice of the latest time to receive draft resolutions before each session, except for draft resolutions on public investment and socio-economic development, thereby enhancing the responsibility and initiative in preparing draft resolutions of relevant departments and branches. Before each session of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council, a discussion session will be held to reach agreement between the submitting agency and the reviewing agency on contents with different opinions.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy also said: Through discussion, the Provincial People's Council Party Delegation has reached a high consensus on a number of contents to continue improving the quality of the question and answer sessions at regular meetings. Accordingly, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Council will directly preside; not organize a general opening and closing session for the entire question and answer session, but will raise questions and conclude each question to have more time for the questioner and the person being questioned to answer.

Provincial People's Council leaders at the regular meeting in July 2022. Photo: Thanh Duy

The head of the Provincial People's Council emphasized: The contents selected for questioning must be highly specialized, in sensitive fields, but the content must not be too broad so that the person answering the questions is basically the selected subject; and some other directors of departments and branches and leaders of the Provincial People's Committee should be added; avoid leaders of departments and branches that are oriented to answer questions about contents under their authority answering less, while other departments and branches that are only supplementary answer more.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Council also noted a number of contents related to the responsibilities of delegates in attending the session; as well as the leaders of departments and branches participating in the discussion sessions in the hall, group discussions, and passing resolutions to ensure the quality in implementing the agenda of the Provincial People's Council sessions. After each Provincial People's Council session, Nghe An Newspaper and Nghe An Radio and Television Station need to strengthen propaganda, especially the newly approved contents, policies and decisions.

The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council also highly agreed to continue applying information technology in the review sessions, specifically providing digitized documents to delegates attending the meeting, not printing paper documents.

CAREFULLY PREPARE FOR 2 TOPICS THAT WILL BE SUPERVISED

Also at the working session, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council reviewed the results of activities in July and agreed on tasks for August 2022. In particular, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council will issue a plan and outline for supervising two topics of the Provincial People's Council: On the implementation of the Resolutions of the Provincial People's Council on land recovery and conversion of land use purposes according to the provisions of the Land Law to implement works and projects in Nghe An province in the period of 2016 - 2021 and the State management of minerals in Nghe An province.

Comrade Thai Thi An Chung - Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation discussed a number of contents related to the coordination work between the Office of the National Assembly Delegation - Provincial People's Council and the Office of the Provincial People's Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council will also direct and coordinate the Provincial People's Council Committees to collect information and develop monitoring and survey plans. Specifically, the Legal Committee supervises the implementation of State management on organizational structure, payroll, and labor contracts in State administrative agencies and public service units in Nghe An province from 2020 to present. The Culture - Social Committee supervises the implementation of legal policies on social insurance and health insurance in Nghe An province in the period of 2016 - 2021.

The Ethnic Committee supervises the implementation of the "Project to enhance the application of information technology to support ethnic minorities in socio-economic development and ensure security and order in ethnic minority areas in Vietnam for the period 2019 - 2025 in Nghe An province".

Delegates attending the regular meeting in July 2022 of the Provincial People's Council Standing Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy

Concluding this content, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Council proposed: After the 2022 - 2025 term congress, the Party cells under the Office of the National Assembly Delegation and the Provincial People's Council need to focus on building regulations, assigning tasks to each comrade in the Party cell, programs, and plans to implement the work of the Party cell. On the other hand, the Provincial People's Council needs to continue to focus on digital transformation, implementing the Project to Improve the quality and efficiency of the activities of the 18th term Nghe An Provincial People's Council. The Office of the National Assembly Delegation - Provincial People's Council advises on plans to soon deploy software to monitor, classify, and process petitions.

Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province Thai Thanh Quy also noted the need to coordinate the monitoring and survey activities of the Provincial People's Council, the People's Council Committees and the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, as well as the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee smoothly, without overlap, ensuring the participation of the members; avoid increasing monitoring and surveying but bringing low quality; at the same time, pay attention to some contents related to the coordination mechanism between the Office of the National Assembly Delegation - Provincial People's Council and the Office of the Provincial People's Committee.

The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council also agreed to conduct training for Provincial People's Council delegates on supervision, survey, contact with voters, and resolution of issues raised by voters;...