There is also a situation where officials have a mentality of taking the fight against waste lightly.

According to National Assembly delegates, there are still some officials who take the fight against waste lightly in management activities, only considering waste as a behavior that needs to be overcome but not to a serious level, and not considering waste as a dangerous behavior for society.

Morning of November 4, continue the program At the 8th session, the National Assembly discussed in the hall the results of the implementation of the 2024 socio-economic development plan and the expected 2025 socio-economic development plan.

Speaking about the issue of fighting waste in the public apparatus, delegate Mai Thi Phuong Hoa (Nam Dinh delegation) said that recently, the Party and State have paid great attention to the work of fighting waste. anti waste

Delegate Mai Thi Phuong Hoa (Nam Dinh delegation). (Photo: DUY LINH)

In particular, the Politburo issued Directive No. 27-CT/TW on strengthening the Party's leadership in practicing thrift and combating waste; the National Assembly conducted supreme supervision and issued a resolution on practicing thrift and combating waste.

Most recently, the Central Steering Committee on anti-corruption and anti-negativity has added the task of preventing and combating waste, focusing on preventing and combating waste in the management and use of public finance and public assets.

In particular, General Secretary To Lam's article on combating waste correctly assessed the current situation, pointed out the causes, and proposed many very accurate solutions. This is a strong, profound message encouraging all people, especially officials in the public apparatus, to reconsider the way resources are used and managed throughout society.

The article assessed that waste is still quite common, in many different forms, and has caused many serious consequences for development.

Regarding the cause of the above situation, delegate Mai Thi Phuong Hoa said that there are still some officials who have the mentality of taking lightly the fight against waste in management activities, only considering waste as a behavior that needs to be overcome but not to a serious level, not considering waste as a dangerous behavior for society.

Delegates attending the morning meeting on November 4. (Photo: DUY LINH)

Besides, some officials still think that waste is only the ineffective management and use of State capital and assets. But in reality, according to delegates, there is also waste of opportunities and time.

“A foreign expert has stated that wasting opportunities and time is the biggest waste of intangible assets of human beings. Once opportunities and time pass, they will never return.

As General Secretary To Lam has stated, cumbersome administrative procedures waste the time of people and businesses. Fear of responsibility and shirking work will waste development opportunities for the locality and the country,” the delegate emphasized.

Another reason pointed out by the Nam Dinh delegation is the achievement disease, term-based thinking, and subjective thinking of some officials who want to carry out projects near their locality, ministry, and during their term as leader to demonstrate their ability.

The dynamism but due to hasty work, subjective calculation, not fully following the procedures, did not bring the desired results.

Recently, the Central Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity has pointed out and named a number of projects as the most specific examples.

In addition, sanctions for waste have been issued but their deterrence is not high, mainly warning and reminder.

From there, delegate Mai Thi Phuong Hoa emphasized that if we successfully fight waste like we have fought corruption in the past, our country will certainly firmly enter a new era.

Delegate Pham Van Hoa (Dong Thap delegation) was concerned that in mountainous areas, there are accompanying minerals such as soil, rock, coal slag mixed with precious minerals that have not been exploited and are discarded, causing waste.

Delegates proposed that the Government, ministries and branches have necessary solutions to use waste rock and soil from mineral mines, coal slag from thermal power plants and power plants to replace conventional materials.

Delegate Nguyen Thi Viet Nga (Hai Duong delegation). (Photo: DUY LINH)

Also on the issue of combating waste, from another perspective, delegate Nguyen Thi Viet Nga (Hai Duong delegation) said that the Government's report clearly stated that from 2021 to August 2024, more than 3,000 business regulations were reduced and simplified (accounting for 18.9% of the total number of reviewed regulations). This is a very large number.

According to the delegate, unnecessary and cumbersome administrative procedures in business are bottlenecks and major obstacles for people and businesses. These unnecessary procedures waste time, social resources and investment opportunities for businesses.

“The number of more than 3,000 procedures being cut and simplified is both a good and bad sign. It is a good sign because it is the result of active, responsible and scientific review. But it is not good because this number is also the result of limitations in the work of building and promulgating legal documents in recent times,” the delegate analyzed.

To minimize the situation of issuing administrative procedures and then reviewing them to reduce them, delegates recommended that it is necessary to practice reviewing right from the stage of drafting and promulgating legal regulations, in which special attention should be paid to asking for opinions from all walks of life, agencies, and organizations on draft legal documents and synthesizing...

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