From amending the Law on Planning to the story of preventing waste in institution building

The National Assembly is discussing a draft law amending four laws, including the Planning Law, to ensure consistent implementation and avoid overlap leading to waste of resources.

The 2017 Law on Planning was passed by the National Assembly on November 24, 2017 and took effect from January 1, 2019. The Law on Planning, together with documents guiding its implementation, has created a complete system of legal documents to implement unified and synchronous planning activities nationwide, contributing to the implementation of new thinking on planning work, according to which planning always needs to be one step ahead.

However, the shortcomings in the implementation of the Planning Law have been clearly revealed. One of the shortcomings is that urban planning and rural planning have not been clearly defined at which level in the national planning system. There is also a lack of synchronization in the authority to organize the appraisal of provincial planning tasks and the authority to appraise provincial planning.

Another problem is that while planning involves consulting with ministries, branches, localities, agencies, organizations and relevant individuals, some of the planning content is classified as state secrets. This means that it creates a lack of consistency and “mismatch” with the Law on Protection of State Secrets.

Therefore, amending the Law on Planning is really necessary to perfect the content and methods of planning associated with reforming administrative procedures in investment and business.

Especially in the current context when the fight against corruption, negativity and waste is being promoted, the National Assembly's discussion of the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Planning, the Law on Investment, the Law on Investment under the form of public-private partnership and the Law on Bidding (1 law amending 4 laws) not only increases the synchronization and compatibility between laws but also contributes to quickly bringing resources for development and growth, preventing resources (both domestic and foreign) from being wasted and not being effective. At the same time, it contributes to "solving" difficult cases in investment practice, such as investors are willing to spend millions of dollars to do it, but the items that need to be added are not included in the land use planning.

The fact that 1 law amending 4 laws is being considered by the National Assembly also contributes to speeding up the process of putting projects into operation and promoting their effects on the economy , especially large projects with spillover effects, instead of having to wait indefinitely.

Combating waste in mobilizing and using resources is an urgent task today. Illustrative photo.

In recent times, the backlog, limitations, and inadequacies in the work of institutional building have caused seemingly invisible waste, but in reality, it is very large. In a recent important article titled "Fighting Waste", in his position as the head of our Party, General Secretary To Lam frankly and specifically mentioned a form of waste that few people mention, namely waste due to lack of planning, inefficiency in public investment, or abandoned projects that are not used...

In fact, such waste is not simply a loss of assets but also creates social injustice, especially in access to resources. When national resources are wasted, development opportunities will be narrowed, increasing the gap between rich and poor and causing a decline in people's trust in the ruling party. The less mentioned, the more easily these forms of resource waste will be ignored for a long time, and there is even a reason to "naturally" exist behind the screen of weakness in institutional building.

At the discussion session on " New era, the era of national development " with the trainees of the Training and updating of knowledge and skills for planning cadres of the 14th Party Central Committee, which took place on October 31, 2024 in Hanoi, General Secretary To Lam pointed out that mechanisms, policies and laws have not created a truly favorable environment to promote innovation and attract resources from domestic and foreign investors as well as from the people. Among the three biggest bottlenecks today, which are institutions, infrastructure and human resources, institutions are the "bottleneck" of "bottlenecks".

In particular, the General Secretary specifically named a number of forms of waste that are emerging fiercely, including the quality of law making and completion that does not meet practical requirements, leading to difficulties, hindering implementation, causing loss and waste of resources.

Therefore, with the view of not wasting resources from institutional building work, the General Secretary once again requested that the work of building and enforcing laws should not be hasty, but also not be perfectionist, so as not to lose opportunities; taking people and businesses as the center and subject; regularly evaluating the effectiveness and quality of policies after promulgation to promptly adjust inadequacies and conflicts, minimizing loss and waste of resources; proactively detecting and quickly removing "bottlenecks" caused by legal regulations.

Previously, in the article “Fighting against waste” with the viewpoint that the fight against waste needs to be perceived and placed in the right position and requirements, General Secretary To Lam emphasized a task of focusing on thoroughly solving the causes leading to waste of public assets, natural resources, resources for people care and national development. Here, the focus is on strongly innovating the work of building, perfecting and enforcing laws, considering this an important factor to prevent and combat waste.

At the same time, " regularly evaluate the effectiveness and quality of policies after they are issued to promptly adjust inadequacies and contradictions, minimize loss and waste of resources; proactively detect and quickly remove "bottlenecks" caused by legal regulations ," the General Secretary requested.

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