Vinh City is brave in contributing ideas to planning for its own future.

Scene of the discussion at group 2. Photo: Minh Chi

There are still many shortcomings in urban order management.

Delegate Tran Ngoc Tu - Head of Vinh City Police, stated that the city has not yet created a highlight in architecture that is characteristic of Vinh, even many roads are very "unsightly", the sidewalk planning is that some parts are out, some parts are in.

Delegate Tu also emphasized that in addition to urban traffic order, which the city has long focused on, planning, construction, and architecture are extremely important. Therefore, he suggested that the city should have an early orientation for this issue.

Also concerned about this issue, delegate Nguyen Trung Dung - Head of Vinh Urban Development Sub-Project expressed concern about the situation of re-encroachment on projects that have cleared the land such as: Ancient Citadel Moat Project, 72m road, encroachment on Vinh River dike road, even building shacks and preparing to build houses on it. Therefore, it is recommended that the City People's Committee strengthen management in this issue.

Vice Chairman of Vinh City People's Committee Ha Thanh Tinh admitted that although the city has a very strict mechanism to monitor and evaluate the quality of cadres and civil servants, the implementation process is not very effective. Photo: Minh Chi

On the other hand, in terms of planning, the Vinh urban development project has a regulating lake in Hung Loc and the planning around this lake will be a great opportunity for the city to create a new urban area with beautiful ecological landscape and close to nature.

However, up to this point, the planning work is still behind, so the city needs to promote this issue, and at the same time needs to have the "courage" to contribute opinions to the planning for its own future, avoiding the situation where businesses come in to take the land and this area becomes "a torn shirt".

Delegate Tran Ngoc Tu - Head of the City Police Department suggested that the city should have early orientation for urban planning and architecture that is characteristic of Vinh. Photo: Minh Chi

Also related to urban order management, some delegates said that there should be a mechanism for agencies, units, businesses located in the area and people to be responsible for and around their units and homes, from urban order to environmental sanitation, not just worrying about the inside of the fence of the agency, unit or the premises of their home, it is necessary to build habits and cultural lifestyle for city residents.

Many opinions also suggest that we should not maintain urban order teams at ward and commune levels, but only maintain and supplement the force for the city-level urban order team to ensure more effective urban order management.

Enhance the responsibility of staff and civil servants

In all discussion groups, many delegates frankly raised many existing problems and difficulties of the city related to the slow issuance and exchange of land use right certificates and low success rate; compensation and site clearance for some projects are still difficult; the work of handling citizens' complaints and denunciations as well as voters' reflections, recommendations and proposals is still irresponsible; the work of reforming administrative procedures and the requests of people and businesses are still troublesome...

Acknowledging that the issues raised by the delegates were completely correct, Chairman of the City People's Council Nguyen Van Lu requested that the City People's Committee direct specialized departments and offices to be responsible for resolving the city's pressing issues as well as citizens' complaints and denunciations and voters' opinions and recommendations.

Discussion scene at group 1. Photo: Minh Chi

The Chairman of the City People's Council said that many voters' petitions were answered "out of the blue" by the departments and functional units of the City People's Committee, people asked one thing but were answered another, extremely irresponsible. This situation is partly due to the capacity of officials and civil servants, but most importantly, it is the irresponsible attitude of officials who refuse to grasp and refuse to understand.

Chairman Nguyen Van Lu said that it is time to clarify who is responsible, what is associated with what, and which area, and avoid generalities. For example, if there is a delay in issuing and changing the land use right certificate, it is necessary to check and clarify the cause of the problem at which level, the responsibility of the department, which level, and whenever there are many problems in any area leading to petitions, it is necessary to consider the responsibility of the assigned officer in charge of the field, area, etc.

"Currently, there are many issues that commune and ward officials are very concerned about but do not want to talk about anymore" - Chairman Lu stated the reality.

Officials from city departments and offices are focusing on speeding up the construction of Hung Loc reservoir. Photo: Minh Chi

Also commenting on this issue, Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Ha Thanh Tinh admitted that although the city has built a mechanism and assigned the City Inspectorate to monitor, supervise, and evaluate the quality of cadres and civil servants very specifically and to classify cadres and civil servants every 3 months, this mechanism has not been effectively implemented and lacks a specific address to handle cadres.

Delegate Ha Thanh Tinh also emphasized that the city is in dire need of addresses of organizations and individuals who are irresponsible or harass or cause harm to people and businesses to handle.