The key to the success of all the President's initiatives is in the effective interaction of the State and civil society - A.Balayeva

October 9 2021 Nur-Sultan.

A series of meetings of the Minister of Information and Social Development Aida Balayeva with members of the Public Council, representatives of scientific and creative intelligentsia, ethno-cultural associations and activists of the city of Nur-Sultan took place in the capital's House of Friendship.

 

At a meeting with members of the Nur-Sultan City Public Council, A. Balayeva informed about the work carried out by the Ministry to improve and coordinate the activities of public councils, including taking into account legislative amendments adopted this year. The Minister noted that the public council has become a real institution for expressing the opinion of civil society, and the legislative innovations adopted in 2021 were a breakthrough in improving their activities. So, currently 249 public councils are directly involved in the implementation of public control in four forms: public monitoring, public expertise, public hearings and hearing reports of heads of public authorities. The Minister urged the members of the Public Council to use their powers provided by the legislation more actively.

For their part, the participants of the meeting spoke about their experience and problematic issues in the practical implementation of legislative amendments to expand the powers of public councils. At the end A.Balayeva informed that a separate platform of the X Civil Forum will be devoted to the topic of public councils, which will be held at the end of November this year in Almaty in honor of the 30th anniversary of Kazakhstan's Independence.

 

A separate meeting was held with representatives of the scientific and creative intelligentsia of the capital, during which the Minister once again drew the attention of the participants to the importance of joint efforts in the implementation of the President's Address, where the President assigns a special role to the national intelligentsia in the development of the country. In particular, A.Balayeva noted: "The intelligentsia has always led our people forward, mentoring young people and engaging in education, and this understanding is especially important in the year of the 30th anniversary of Independence," the minister said.

She spoke in detail about the implementation of the initiative of Elbasy - the First President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev "Rukhani Zhangyru", noting that since 2021 the program has moved to the format of a Roadmap for the transition to the stage of national modernization of public consciousness.

Speaking about the special role of the intelligentsia in the implementation of "Rukhani Zhangyru", the minister spoke about the success of the "100 books" project, thanks to which the works of 60 poets and writers were translated into 6 world languages and distributed in 90 countries.

 

At a meeting with the activists of the capital's Akimat, the Minister focused on the need to increase public awareness of the initiatives of the President and the Government of the country. A.Balayeva stressed that social development largely depends on the effective interaction of central and local public executive authorities with civil society, scientific and creative intelligentsia, youth.

 

The participants of the meetings with the Minister noted the special importance of such events in the format of exchanging opinions and recommendations in the field of social development in the year of the 30th anniversary of Kazakhstan's Independence.