(HBO) – The People’s Committee of Hoa Binh province has held a working session on the inspection of natural disaster prevention and control, and search and rescue activities in Hoa Binh city. Nguyen Van Dung, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee presided over the event.

The provincial working team makes a field
trip to some major sites in Hoa Binh city.
The city People’s Committee said the city
has four dyke systems and 17 key hydropower reservoirs and irrigation works as
well as equable lakes.
In order to stay active in preventing and
responding to natural disasters in 2018, the city People’s Committee has
designed key plans and tasks in the work for the year. The plans’ major objectives
to timely prevent and cope with the disasters’ consequences in a prompt and
effective manner, while considering the prevention as main task.
The work will be implementing in the principle
of showing strong performance at site in four aspects: effective direction,
on-the-spot forces, on-site vehicles, and on-site logistics.
The city has asked 15 communes, wards and
authorised agencies in the city to launch the plan for 2018 to suit their real
conditions, while reviewing and ensuring the full reserve of equipment, vehicles,
food, foodstuff, medicine for at least seven days for all locals in the
locality.
At the same time, localities across the
city have been requested to efficiently conduct resettlement to stabilise the
life of households affected by landslides due to the low pressure in October
2017. They have been asked to regularly examine, review and complete the plans
for natural disaster prevention and control as well as search and rescue
activities, and strictly implement the on-duty watching in accordance with
regulations.
At the working session, the provincial
People’s Committee requested the city People’s Committee to direct relevant
agencies to speed up the expansion of drainage tunnel No. 3 of the Quynh Lam
dyke to deal with flood in Hoa Binh city.
The city was asked to give financial
support to the construction of embankments for preventing erosion on transportation
routes, and irrigation canals.
Earlier, Vice Chairman of the provincial
People’s Committee Nguyen Van Van Dung and other senior officials of Hoa Binh city
made field trips to Van Chai commune near Hoa Binh bridge, the banks of Dung
stream and Tri stream in Tan Thinh ward, and a Van Chai docking area for boat in
Thinh Lang ward./.
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