Continuing the 9th session, on the morning of May 28, the National Assembly discussed at the Hall on the Bill of Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Planning Law. At this amendment, the draft law focuses on three urgent issues that need to be handled in the near future.
First, add transitional regulations on planning adjustment, ensuring immediate adjustment of plans at all levels after the arrangement of administrative units takes effect.
Second, promote decentralization and delegation of power to the maximum, enhance autonomy, proactiveness, creativity, and self-responsibility of all levels and sectors.
Third, continue to remove difficulties and problems arising in practice that can be handled immediately.
Regulating the role of communes in planning
Participating in contributing opinions, delegate Nguyen Tam Hung - National Assembly Delegation of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province proposed to consider and add new content to the draft Law to demonstrate the role of the commune level in planning.
Accordingly, the delegate proposed to clearly stipulate that the commune-level government is the coordinating subject in the planning system, responsible for participating in providing information, proposing planning plans and coordinating the implementation of planning in the area.
The delegate said that the above regulation is necessary in the context of organizing local governments at 2 levels, ensuring consistency and practicality in organizing law enforcement.
At the same time, delegate Hung asked the drafting agency to consider and consider additional in Clause 4, Article 16 of the Law on the provincial planning process, clearly defining the responsibilities of the provincial planning agency in collecting the official opinions of the People's Committee of the commune, as well as the commune -level People's Committee to provide data and propose the orientation of developing trade space and production infrastructure of their localities.
"For a long time, many opinions of the commune level have not been substantially integrated into the provincial planning, leading to inadequacies in the implementation, especially in rural and mountainous areas," said delegate Nguyen Tam Hung.
Delegates also said that, the commune level has no right to decide the planning, but it is a place to directly manage the current status of land use and population. If there is no mechanism to tie the role of the commune, the implementation of the plan will lack forces.
Therefore, the delegate proposed to add a provision that the People's Committees at the commune level are responsible for coordinating the implementation of planning implementation plans in the area, monitoring the situation of land use and infrastructure investment according to approved plans, and periodically reporting to provincial-level agencies.
In addition, it is necessary to clearly define the responsibility of the People's Committees at the commune level in organizing planning propaganda, supervising planning implementation in the area, receiving recommendations from people and reflecting to provincial-level agencies.
Do not let communes wait for provinces, provinces wait for the central government
Delegate Nguyen Thi Thu Nguyet - National Assembly Delegation of Dak Lak province assessed that planning plays a very special role in coordinating resource allocation and creating development space. The amendment and supplementation of a number of articles in the Law on Planning is necessary to meet the requirements in the process of organizing a new apparatus and expanding administrative boundaries.
Through research on the draft law, delegates found that there was no regulations to clarify the feedback mechanism between the planning agency and the appraisal council. According to the delegate, in the procedure of the dossier submitted to the approval and appraisal of the planning, there is a content that is the conclusion of the appraisal council.
The delegate raised the issue, if the implementation process, the planning agency does not complete the above conclusions, how will it be resolved, how will it respond to submit to the competent authority if there are problems in practice...
At the same time, the delegate said that the regulation on consulting on planning adjustment mentioned in the draft Law has not ensured feasibility in practice. The delegate raised the issue, if local agencies ask for opinions, but the ministries and branches do not respond, how will it be resolved?
"I propose studying in the direction that agencies that are asked for opinions are responsible for responding in writing within 20 days from the date of receipt of the dossier. If the agencies do not respond within the above deadline, it will be considered as agreed", delegate Nguyen Thi Thu Nguyet.
According to the delegate, the above regulation will avoid the situation of "communes waiting for provinces and provinces waiting for the central government, causing waste of resources and losing opportunities in the issue of receiving projects for economic and social development".
