In early March 2025, the Chairman of the City People's Committee signed an official dispatch directing the handling of the situation of wandering, begging, street vending, overcharging, and soliciting tourists.
In August 2024, when reviewing 1 year of implementing Decision 812 of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee on regulations on coordination mechanism for gathering children, homeless beggars and other subjects in need of urgent protection in the area, the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs at that time said there were positive signs. To promote achievements, many initiatives and solutions were proposed in that review session.
Half a year later, in early March 2025, the Chairman of the City People's Committee signed an official dispatch directing the handling of the situation of vagrancy, begging, street vending, overcharging, and soliciting tourists. Accordingly, the People's Committees of districts, towns, Thu Duc City, and many departments and branches were assigned specific tasks to tighten, gradually limit and eliminate the above situation.
However, many streets have not changed much since then. On the evening of March 5 alone, reporters from the Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper encountered many cases, such as old people taking off their hats to beg for money on Hai Ba Trung Street (District 3), and teenagers blowing fire waiting for charity at the intersection of Nguyen Oanh - Phan Van Tri (Go Vap District)...
If we think that the localities and units implementing the directives have deviated or that they lack comprehensiveness due to a lack of manpower, then it is not unreasonable. However, in reality, begging or "fighting" still exists, perhaps due to other social reasons such as making a living, being forced to go out on the streets, or even the mentality of wanting "easy work with high income".
Therefore, in addition to being serious, the places implementing the direction of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee should have a deeper sociological investigation to identify the root of the problem, aiming to thoroughly solve it. In particular, the Department of Health has just taken over the task of state management of social protection, child care and protection, and social evil prevention from the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, so it should demonstrate a more proactive role.
Source: https://nld.com.vn/chu-dong-xu-ly-van-de-dai-dang-196250309204509714.htm
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