(HBO) – Right after taking a refresher course in defence – security knowledge held in early 2021 by Mai Chau district’s defence – security education council for village elders, clan leaders, outstanding individuals, and prestigious persons of communities, Sung A Vo, a village elder in Pa Co hamlet of Pa Co commune, met descendants in his clan and local households to disseminate the new information and knowledge he had acquired so as to join efforts in developing their village.

Prestigious persons in Hang Kia commune, Mai Chau district, and police officers discuss ways to promote the "All people safeguard the Fatherland’s security” movement.

like Sung A Vo, Vang A Tinh, another village elder in Hang Kia commune, also has an important voice in his community. He has worked hard to encourage locals to plant forests, protect the environment, take part in the "All people safeguard the Fatherland’s security” movement, preserve and bring into play fine traditional cultural values, and halt the opium poppy cultivation. As a result, locals have pin their trust in Tinh and followed his recommendations.

Ha Thi Duoc, head of the mass mobilisation board of the Mai Chau Party Committee and President of the district’s Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, said under the Prime Minister’s Directive No 06/CT-TTg on promoting the role of ethnic minority communities’ prestigious persons in national construction and defence, all-level Party committees and authorities in Mai Chau have stepped up this task in order to carry out the Party and State’s policies on ethnic minority affairs and guarantee local security and order.

Being aware of the prestigious persons’ role in the ensuring of political security and social order and safety, the district’s public security force has worked to promote the role of these individuals.

Senior Lieutenant Colonel Ha Van Van, deputy head of the force, said local police have asked many prestigious persons for help in dealing with complicated issues.

Statistics show that Mai Chau is currently home to more than 130 village elders and leaders recognised as prestigious persons in ethnic minority communities. Among them, 55 people have been engaging in security and order safeguarding, including 33 from the Mong ethnic group, 16 Thai, three Dao, two Muong, and one Tay.

Not only bridging the Party and administration with people, thanks to their prestige, village elders and leaders, heads of clans, and prestigious persons in Mai Chau have set examples of participating in and encouraging locals to join the fight against negative phenomena and crimes, as well as economic development efforts.

Ha Thi Duoc said over the past years, prestigious persons in ethnic minority communities in Mai Chau have truly become a "channel” via which the Party and State’s guidelines, policies, and laws have been popularised and carried out. They have also proved helpful in boosting economic activities and calling on locals to fulfill their citizen obligations and to capitalise on development chances created by the Party and State.

They have done a good job of making use of their role and prestige and become a factor for cementing solidarity in communities, she added./.

 


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