Provincial People’s Committee convenes regular meeting for September

(LSO) – The People’s Committee of Lang Son on October 2 held a regular meeting for September, which was presided over by Pham Ngoc Thuong, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Lang Son People’s Committee.

Participants focused on five issues related to the balancing of budget collection and spending in 2018; the prices of environment cleaning services; the draft regulation on annual evaluation of performance of departments and agencies in the province; the draft document on the amendments and supplementations to the regulation on foreign relations activities; and the draft decision approving the project on forestry development in the 2020-2030 period.

Concluding the meeting, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Thuong agreed on the report by the Department of Finance on the balancing of budget collection and spending in 2018 and the prices of environment cleaning services.

Pham Ngoc Thuong, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Lang Son People’s Committee, addresses the meeting.

He stressed that in 2018, the collection, spending and management of the provincial budget was implemented in line with the Budget Law. However, the collection and spending of the budget has still faced shortcomings, including losses in collection, inadequate attention from leaders of agencies assigned with budget balancing task, wastefulness in spending, and ineffective coordination among relevant agencies.

Regarding the draft decision on the prices of environment cleaning services, he lauded the Department of Finance’s efforts in building the document, with detailed subjects for service fee collection and solution in using the collected fees.

Over the annual evaluation of performance of departments and agencies in the province, he asked head of the Department of Home Affair to collect ideas of participants at the meeting to finalise the decision on the issue.

Thuong underlined the need to clarify contents related to defining points and criteria for evaluation, as well as the data as the foundation for the evaluation. He asked the department to submit the draft decision by October 30, 2019.

Over proposals of the provincial Department of Foreign Affairs related to the amendments and supplementations to the regulation on foreign relations activities, and a draft decision on the project of forestry development by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the provincial leader asked the departments to gather opinions at the meeting to complete the documents within this month./.