Supervising the implementation of financial autonomy mechanism

ABO - On May 22, the delegation of the Tien Giang provincial People's Council, led by Head of the Economic and Budget Department under the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Thanh Dieu, supervised the implementation of financial autonomy mechanism at Tien Giang University and Tien Giang Radio and Television station.

This working session saw an attendance of Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Thi Sang; representatives of the Provincial People's Council committees, representatives of relevant departments and sectors, etc ...

At the working session with Tien Giang University.

According to the report of Tien Giang University, in 2018, the unit used money and assets by the right content, purpose and effectiveness; decentralizing to create conditions for units, civil servants and employees in the school to be self-reliant and self-responsible in managing financial revenues and expenditures for the right purpose, economically and effectively.

The unit's operating budget includes funding sources allocated by the state budget (state budget), non-business revenues and other lawful revenues. The total school revenue of the school in 2018 was over 46 billion VND; state budget allocations in the year were over 37 billion VND, generally ensuring school activities.

At the Tien Giang Radio and Television Station, leaders of the unit also focused on leadership throughout the organization of implementing financial autonomy; financial revenue and expenditure goes into order, the revenue of the unit has accumulated in each year; officials and employees actively seeking partners to cooperate and exchange new sources of income for the unit, etc... About the operating budget, in 2018, state budget allocated to the unit as over 11 billion VND, revenue source career in the year as over 45 billion, ensuring the activities of the unit, etc...

Director of Tien Giang Radio and Television Station Nguyen Si Hung speaks at the working session.

According to the evaluation the supervision delegation, in addition to the positive results, the implementation of autonomy in public service units was also not difficult, such as payroll saving results; saving funding from the state budget was not high; the progress did not kept pace with the schedule compared to the target until 2021; awareness of autonomy of some cadres, civil servants and officials was limited, etc...

Head of the Economic and Budget Department under the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Thanh Dieu highly appreciated the efforts of the units in implementing the mechanism of autonomy and self-responsibility in the past time.

Head of the Economic and Budget Department under the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Thanh Dieu speaks at the working session. Photo: HOAI THU

It is believed that autonomy and self-responsibility in implementing tasks, organizational structure, payroll and finance for non-business units is a must to work towards full autonomy under the policy of the central. Therefore, public non-business units need to actively prepare themselves to concretize this policy.

The monitoring team acknowledged the recommendations of the units and reported the Standing Council of the Provincial People's Council to create favorable conditions for the units to implement the roadmap to increase the level of autonomy more favorable in the future, etc...

By HOAI THU – Translated by HUU CHI