In recent years, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee have led and directed Party committees, Party organizations, authorities, Fatherland Fronts, and mass organizations at all levels to fully and promptly implement the Party's guidelines and the State's policies and laws on the elderly, thereby creating positive changes in the awareness of cadres, Party members, and people about the work of the elderly. The Provincial, District, and City Elderly Associations and the Commune and Ward Elderly Associations have been strengthened, improving the quality of their activities, and attracting a large number of elderly people to participate in activities. Currently, the province has 65 commune and ward-level Elderly Associations; 396 village and neighborhood Elderly Associations; and the number of elderly members is 51,752, accounting for 85% of the total number of elderly people in the province. Members and the elderly actively carry out the movement "Old age - Bright example", making practical contributions to the process of socio-economic development, building new rural areas, civilized urban areas, participating in Party and government building, preserving and conserving cultural values, ensuring security and order in the locality.
At the working session, members of the working delegation and leaders of provincial departments and branches discussed and clarified the situation, results, difficulties and limitations in implementing the work for the elderly in the past time; the role of the work for the elderly and the association of the elderly; the leadership and direction of the Party Committee and authorities, the coordination of agencies in the work for the elderly and the association of the elderly; conditions for implementing the policy of building the organization of the association of the elderly at the provincial and district levels in the province.
Comrade Nguyen Duc Thanh, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, spoke at the meeting. Photo: Lam Anh
Speaking at the meeting, the Chairman of the Vietnam Association of the Elderly highly appreciated the attention, leadership, direction, coordination and support of departments and branches at all levels in the province for the work of the elderly and the association of the elderly. He requested the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, Provincial People's Committee and departments and branches in the province to continue to pay attention to studying, thoroughly grasping and concretizing the implementation of Conclusion No. 58-KL/TW dated June 23, 2023 of the Secretariat on the organization and operation of the Vietnam Association of the Elderly to Party committees, Party organizations and authorities at all levels. Pay more attention to developing members; building and improving the quality of elderly clubs; at the same time, planning land funds, having policies to call for investment in building elderly health care centers; arousing and promoting the role of the elderly in patriotic emulation movements, building a clean and strong Party and political system.
On behalf of the provincial leaders, the Provincial Party Secretary acknowledged the comments of the Delegation and the President of the Vietnam Association of the Elderly; hoping that the Vietnam Association of the Elderly will continue to pay attention to and support the province in implementing the work of the elderly, especially strategic issues. He said that up to this point, the Provincial Party Committee has directed specialized agencies to develop a plan to disseminate and organize the implementation of Conclusion No. 58-KL/TW of the Secretariat. The conversion of the organization model of the Association of the Elderly according to Conclusion No. 58-KL/TW of the Secretariat is necessary, the Provincial Party Committee continues to study the conversion method in accordance with the political and social conditions and roadmap of the locality. Directing the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Committee, the Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee to continue to monitor and direct the implementation of the work of the elderly and the Association of the Elderly; There is a joint mechanism in performing tasks, aiming to encourage and promote the role and strengths of the elderly, especially in terms of experience and intelligence in implementing patriotic emulation movements, building the Party and the political system, contributing to building the homeland of Ninh Thuan to develop more and more.
On this occasion, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Elderly Association awarded the Medal "For the cause of protecting, caring for and promoting the role of the Vietnamese elderly" to 17 individuals; and presented 50 million VND to the Provincial Elderly Association Executive Committee to support elderly members in difficult circumstances.
Lam Anh
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