To focuse on investment in providing clean water for people in remote areas

ABO - During the 2nd working day (December 4) of the 11th session of Provincial People's Council, term IX, many pressing issues were discussed by delegates in the discussion session.

With high responsibility to the voters, delegates frankly exchanged and discussed the tasks of socio-economic development, national defense and security in 2019 and development directions in 2020; raising practical issues to meet the voters' wishes and send them to the Provincial People's Council.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Van Huong speaks at the discussion session.

* To support health insurance for students

Regarding the promulgation of a Resolution stipulating the level of support for health insurance (health insurance) for some subjects in Tien Giang province, delegate Ta Van Tram said that the Provincial People's Committee submits a report attached to the draft Resolution stipulating the level of support of health insurance contributions for some subjects in Tien Giang province is necessary. However, if it does not support students, pupils, it is not in compliance with the regulations. Because in the Government's Decree No. 146/2018/ND-CP dated October 17, 2018, detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance stipulate the level of support for students and students.

* To improve the quality of voter meetings

Delegate Giang Thi Mong Huyen said: “In addition to the achieved results, the work of meeting voters in the past time also has certain limitations. The work of meeting voters mainly consists of "professional" voters attending. The number of voters attending is little with only 20 - 30 voters for a session so they do not represent all classes of people. Most voters propose their rights and direct interests. There is not many comments contributed to building the government, localities and social development. At the same time, the contents of the work of voter meeting events have not gone into depth as well as thematic contact so that people have many ideas, etc... ”. Therefore, it is necessary to have more breakthroughs and innovations in the voter meeting.

* To focusing on investment in providing clean water for people in remote areas

At the group discussion, around the issue of building clean water supply options for people to use, delegate Huynh Van Hai said that over the past time, the authorities interested in implementing this issue quite well. Through the report of the Provincial People's Committee, the province has opened 59 water supply points, increasing the number of households using clean water. People are very excited, especially in the eastern districts of the province, which have basically met most need clean water of people.

However, through a report of the Tien Giang Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, there are still 78 water plants that do not meet the standard but the relevant has not yet been specifically addressed. There are many households who still do not have clean water or use as Trung Hoa commune (Cho Gao district), Binh Tan commune and Long Binh commune (Go Cong Tay district). Go Cong Dong district and Cai Lay town still has many households without clean water. According to the Tien Giang Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, there are still more than 33,000 households without centralized water.

By staff-writer – Translated by HUU TAM