Focus on stabilizing housing and livelihoods for people after storms and floods

Comrade Nguyen The Giang, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the conference.

Attending the conference were comrades: Nguyen Hung Vuong, member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission, Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; Pham Kim Dinh, member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Director of the Provincial Police; Van Dinh Thao, member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Director of the Department of Planning and Investment; leaders of departments, branches, sectors, People's Committees of districts and cities.

Comrade Nguyen The Giang, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the conference.

According to the report of the People's Committees of districts and cities, the damage situation from September 6 to now has been 5 dead, 6 injured, 72 houses collapsed, completely damaged; 111 houses severely and very severely damaged; 20,474 houses flooded, damage less than 30%; 5,106 households have been evacuated to safe places; 39 schools affected; 2 commune health stations affected; 5,182.6 hectares of rice; 2,890 hectares of corn, vegetables; 1,352.7 hectares of fruit trees and annual crops affected, damaged; 908.6 hectares of forestry trees affected; 1,665 cattle and 20,072 poultry died; 660 hectares of fish ponds were flooded, overflowed; 466 aquaculture cages were swept away.

Comrade Nguyen Hung Vuong, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission, Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee spoke at the conference.

The floods also caused landslides and damage to 37 pumping stations, dams, reservoirs, and embankments; 4 dike and embankment incidents; 12 clean water works; many national highways and local roads were flooded, blocked, collapsed, and damaged; 13 inter-village bridges were damaged; many electric poles and fiber optic cables were broken and collapsed; many agency headquarters and schools were flooded, affected, and caused many other damages. The estimated damage was about 1,351 billion VND.

Immediately after the storm and flood occurred, the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial People's Committee strongly directed departments, branches, sectors, and People's Committees of districts and cities to focus on responding to and overcoming the consequences caused by storm No. 3.

Leaders of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development reported on the damage caused by floods.

The province has also established many working groups to inspect, direct and supervise the response to natural disasters in the assigned areas and fields; mobilized thousands of police officers and soldiers, and militia to overcome the consequences of floods in localities in the province...

Discussing at the conference, leaders of departments, branches, districts and cities discussed solutions to overcome the consequences of rain and floods. The focus was on overcoming the problems of dykes in Son Duong district; building resettlement sites for households moving out of dangerous areas in Linh Phu and Yen Lap communes (Chiem Hoa); overcoming the problem of the dam breaking of Cho Don district ( Bac Kan ) discharging waste into the environment in Binh Phu, Phu Binh and Yen Lap communes (Chiem Hoa); overcoming and supporting people with flooded fruit trees in Yen Son district; reviewing the flood discharge operation process of Tuyen Quang hydropower plant; plans to build bridges in Luc Hanh and Tien Bo communes (Yen Son)...

District and city leaders attended the conference.

Concluding the conference, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen The Giang acknowledged the efforts of all levels, sectors and localities in proactively implementing the "4 on-the-spot" motto in the work of preventing and fighting natural disasters, storms and floods after the recent storm No. 3 occurred in the area.

At the same time, we would like to thank organizations, businesses and kind individuals from all over the country who have joined hands with localities to support and help local people overcome the consequences of rain and floods.
He requested localities to urgently overcome the consequences of floods, especially traffic in landslide-affected areas; the agricultural sector needs to guide people to overcome the consequences of agricultural areas flooded by large amounts of alluvium; review, arrange and relocate people in areas at high risk of natural disasters, especially landslides and flash floods to safe places, and at the same time create sustainable livelihoods for people after storms and floods...

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