Assembly deputies hear citizen concerns

HA NOI — Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan, who is also a National Assembly deputy from the northern province of Ha Nam, met with citizens in the province over the past two days, joined by other provincial National Assembly deputies .
Meeting with voters in Ly Nhan District, Doan said the Party and State continued to issue solutions and adjust policies to strongly boost socio-economic development.
Doan also expressed her sympathy for Ha Nam farmers as their fields were small and hard to cultivate, and livestock epidemics had recently caused setbacks to many residents.
The provincial residents asked the deputies to pay greater attention to policies for cadres in wards and communes and to increase the pay of kindergarten teachers.
Farmers’ incomes were low, they said, while farmers had to cover many expenses.
Nguyen Minh Tuyen of Nhan Binh Commune said residents in his area had had to contribute their own money to building an electric transformer station so that they could have access to power, but they still had to buy electricity at a higher price than prices set by the State.
Meanwhile, in the southern city of Can Tho, National Assembly deputies met with citizens in Binh Thuy and Ninh Kieu districts.
Many voters proposed that the State should quickly discontinue some pending construction projects.
They also urged the establishment of anti-corruption committees in cities and provinces, and said cases of corruption needed to be resolved more quickly.
In the northern province of Tuyen Quang, National Assembly deputies and local residents discussed administrative reform, preventing and controlling epidemics and natural disasters, assuring food safety, reducing pollution and traffic accidents, and controlling inflation.
Residents informed deputies of the poor quality of the provincial educational system, as well as the province’s high unemployment rate and rising cost of living.
Voters in Ham Yen District and the town of Tuyen Quang also urged the National Assembly to improve policies for the elderly, the poor, the disabled and for Agent Orange victims.
Citizens in Thanh Hoa Province asked provincial deputies to address such issues as high inflation, vocational training, the environment, and problems arising in equitising enterprises.
They said it was necessary to have better policies for grassroots cadres and prioritised classes of people and to reduce unemployment, especially among youth. — VNS