Provincial People's Committee approved the draft project on land and forest allocation.

On the afternoon of August 23, the regular August meeting of the Nghe An Provincial People's Committee continued with many important contents. Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting.

The meeting heard the representative of the Provincial Military Command report on the results of 5 years of implementing Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW dated October 25, 2013 of the Central Executive Committee on the Strategy for National Defense in the new situation and the report on the results of 10 years of implementing Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW dated September 22, 2008 of the Politburo on continuing to build provinces and centrally-run cities into solid defense zones in the new situation. Opinions at the meeting were in high agreement with the contents of the report.

View of the meeting. Photo: Tien Hung

Next, the meeting listened to the draft Notice replacing Notice No. 894-TB/TU dated September 8, 2004 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on a number of solutions to address Protestant issues in Nghe An to comply with the provisions of the Law on Belief and Religion.

The meeting also approved the draft Project to improve the effectiveness of research, collection, inventory, preservation and restoration of documents and artifacts of Nghe An Museum. Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong requested the Department of Culture and Sports to collect comments to complete this project and then submit it to the Provincial People's Committee for approval.

At the same time, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee reminded the Department of Culture and Sports on the issue of basic construction: "We must pay attention to quality. Some construction works have not been built for a long time but are now in a very dilapidated state. In addition, the draft of this project was reported 3 years ago but was not approved, the project had to be rebuilt but it took 3 years to complete, which is too late", said comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong.

Leaders of departments and branches at the meeting. Photo: Tien Hung

The content of this draft project mainly focuses on investing capital to improve the efficiency of preserving and collecting antiques. In particular, the cultural sector proposed that the province provide capital of more than 17 billion VND.

The meeting also approved the Draft Project on forest allocation, associated with forestry land allocation, and granting of land use right certificates to households, individuals and communities in Nghe An province for the period 2018-2021. The content of the project is to allocate more than 265,000 hectares of forest to households with a total estimated cost of more than 108 billion VND in 4 years. Of which, the central budget supports nearly 65 billion VND.

Land and forest allocation policies in recent times have had many shortcomings. Photo by Tien Hung

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong said that this is a complicated project, which was discussed in the regular meeting in July but was not approved. "After re-preparation, the Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated it, and the project is more complete. Although the decision was approved, the Provincial People's Committee still noted a number of issues," said the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.

According to comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong, although the project has been re-prepared, some contents in the project are still not feasible, lacking or the content is not specific. Therefore, the Provincial People's Committee requested the agricultural sector to absorb the opinions of the meeting to further complete the project.

After completing the project for approval, the provincial leaders in charge of agriculture need to organize a province-wide meeting to thoroughly understand the project. "For forests belonging to organizations, this phase has not been included in the project, but it is necessary to develop a project to synchronize between individual households and organizations," the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee concluded.