Provincial People's Council reviews, discusses and decides on many important issues

On December 9, at the 19th session, the 10th Provincial People's Council focused on reviewing, discussing and deciding on many important issues related to the province's socio-economic development, caring for and improving people's lives.

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During the meeting, delegates concentrated on reviewing, discussing, and resolving several important issues to swiftly eliminate difficulties and obstacles in institutions and policies; to unleash resources, continue advancing the province's socio-economic development, and enhance people's lives, such as: Resolution on the socio-economic development plan for 2025; budget estimates, public investment plans; amendments and supplements to the price list of land types in the province; regulations on decentralization of authority for public asset management; project to promote decentralization of state management; approval of the payroll of civil servants and employees in public service units in 2025; naming of roads in Tan Uyen city and Phu Giao district; regulations on prices of medical examination and treatment services of state medical facilities; expenditure levels for legal dissemination and education...

Delegates vote to pass resolutions at the meeting.

One of the major and important issues considered and approved at this meeting was the 2025 public investment plan. Assessing the results of implementation and disbursement of public investment capital in 2024, Mr. Vo Anh Tuan, Chief of Office of the Provincial People's Committee, said that as strictly implementing the directions of the Standing Committee and the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, the capital allocation work focused on key projects and works, basically ensuring the needs according to the actual progress of the project; promptly transferring capital from projects and works with low disbursement rates and unable to disburse to projects and works that can disburse well and need additional capital. The progress of key projects and works is being closely monitored and accelerated.

Many long-standing issues that hindered the disbursement of public investment capital have now been effectively resolved, including regulations on compensation, support and resettlement policies in the province, relocation of technical infrastructure works to hand over construction sites for projects, etc. Based on the principles of capital allocation and capital allocation order, the public investment plan for 2025 is as follows: The budget capital for public investment in 2025 according to Official Dispatch No. 8222/BKHĐT-TH dated October 28, 2024 of the Ministry of Planning and Investment is more than 19,000 billion VND; the capital for implementation according to the resolution of the Provincial Party Committee is 36,000 billion VND...

Also at the meeting, delegates reviewed and discussed the plan for public employee payroll and state budget-paid public employee payroll in public service units in 2025. Based on the number of staff assigned by competent authorities and the requirements of local tasks, the Provincial People's Committee submits to the Provincial People's Council for approval the total number of civil servants in the agencies of the Provincial People's Council and People's Committee; districts, cities and the number of employees receiving salaries from the State budget in public service units that partially self-insure regular expenses and public service units whose regular expenses are guaranteed by the State budget in 2025, as follows: Regarding the civil servant establishment, the total civil servant establishment in the agencies of the Provincial People's Council, Provincial People's Committee, districts and cities in 2025 is 1,780 establishments (equal to the number of establishments assigned by the Provincial People's Council in 2024). Regarding the number of employees receiving salaries from the State budget, the total number of employees receiving salaries from the State budget is 23,322 positions (1% reduction in positions compared to 2024 and 200 positions transferred to the Party bloc); of which the additional positions for the education sector in the 2024-2025 school year are 308 positions...

Review and decide on some specific policies

In addition to the contents on institutions, policies, socio-economic development, and people's lives, at this session, the Provincial People's Council also considered issuing a number of specific regimes and policies, such as: Expenditure level for the Nguyen Van Tiet Journalism Award in Binh Duong province; expenditure level for the fields of culture, sports, and tourism; gift levels on the occasion of Lunar New Year, commemorating War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27) every year for subjects and units; expenditure level for visiting and congratulating a number of subjects implemented by the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committees at all levels; amendment of support regimes and policies for civil servants, public employees, employees and students in the education and training sector, vocational education; regulations on support policies for judicial agencies in resolving administrative and civil cases in general in Binh Duong province...

After reviewing the submissions from the Provincial People's Committee and the examination reports from the Provincial People's Council committees regarding draft resolutions within their areas of responsibility, the delegates of the Provincial People's Council expressed strong agreement with both the submissions and the reports during the session. Emphasizing a spirit of innovation and democracy, the Council reviewed and approved seven resolutions related to the budget and public investment, achieving a broad consensus. These resolutions will provide a legal basis for the Provincial People's Committee and relevant agencies to fulfill their tasks in the upcoming period. Additionally, other draft resolutions will be considered, discussed, and approved by the delegates on the second working day of the session.

Reported by Huynh Thuy - Translated by Ngoc Huynh