Focus on removing difficulties in fire prevention and fighting
At the 15th session of the 15th Provincial People's Council, the Provincial People's Council delegates questioned the members of the Provincial People's Committee on the issue of solutions in implementing the Law on Fire Prevention and Fighting. Accordingly, many difficulties and problems in fire prevention and fighting arising from practice were raised by the Provincial People's Council delegates at the parliament and were answered by the members of the Provincial People's Committee, who committed to overcome them.
Implementing the commitment after the questioning, the Provincial People's Committee has directed departments, branches and localities to thoroughly grasp and focus on implementing drastic solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles for agencies, enterprises and households in fire prevention and fighting work; directed the organization of dialogue conferences, answering questions and proposing solutions to guide agencies, enterprises and households in performing fire prevention and fighting and rescue work; established an inspection team, set up a hotline to receive and remove difficulties and obstacles for agencies, enterprises and households in fire prevention and fighting work.
The Provincial Police in coordination with the Department of Construction continue to review establishments with violations and shortcomings in fire prevention and fighting to provide solutions for guidance and remedies; direct the Police of districts and cities to review, survey, evaluate and collect difficulties and problems of agencies, organizations and households regarding fire prevention and fighting work, thereby providing solutions to guide and remove them according to regulations.
The Provincial People's Committee has directed the review and consolidation of 100% of the Commune Fire Prevention and Fighting Steering Committees; established 100% of Civil Defense Teams in villages, hamlets, and residential groups. At the same time, directed the establishment of 2 interdisciplinary inspection teams on fire prevention and fighting safety in the province. The People's Committees of districts and cities have established 9 interdisciplinary inspection teams.
Since July, the province has conducted fire safety inspections on a variety of topics at 1,483 establishments. Through inspections, 95 cases have been handled, including 1 warning and 94 fines totaling over 510 million VND.
Implementing Resolution No. 124/2021/NQ-HDND of the Provincial People's Council stipulating "Handling of facilities in the province that do not meet fire prevention and fighting requirements and were put into use before the effective date of the Fire Prevention and Fighting Law dated June 29, 2001", the whole province has 336 facilities that must be handled.
After nearly 2 years of implementing the Resolution, the authorities have provided guidance on remedial measures for 145 facilities, and organized the review and acceptance of partial remedial measures for 52 facilities. Thus, there are still 139 facilities that have not been remediated, mainly schools and headquarters of district and commune People's Committees. The main reason is the difficulty in allocating funding for implementation.
To solve this problem, the Provincial People's Committee has directed the Provincial Police to preside over and coordinate with relevant agencies and units to complete the drafting of a Resolution amending Clause 9, Article 1 of Resolution No. 124/2021/NQ-HDND, which proposes to postpone the handling of establishments that do not meet fire prevention and fighting requirements until January 1, 2027 so that the Provincial People's Committee can allocate sufficient budget from medium-term capital for these establishments to overcome shortcomings and problems in accordance with fire prevention and fighting regulations, as well as ensure the feasibility and effectiveness of the Resolution. The draft Resolution is expected to be submitted to the Provincial People's Council for consideration and approval at the regular meeting at the end of 2023.
Also in the question-and-answer session at the 15th meeting, members of the Provincial People's Committee answered questions from delegates on issues related to administrative procedures for establishments and enterprises subject to fire safety review and committed to shortening administrative procedures. After implementing the commitment, the Provincial People's Committee directed the Provincial Police to continue reviewing the process of handling administrative procedures in the field of fire prevention and fighting and rescue.
Implementing the direction of the Provincial People's Committee, the Provincial Police Department has decided to shorten the time to handle administrative procedures for 5/17 procedures (reaching 29.4%). From the question-and-answer session to early October 2023, the whole province has received 214 dossiers related to the field of fire prevention and fighting and search and rescue. 100% of the dossiers were processed before the deadline, there were no cases of late results or cases of overdue processing.
Overcoming limitations in collection, transportation and treatment of household waste
Environmental pollution and limitations in the collection, transportation and treatment of domestic solid waste are hot issues of public concern and voters, and were raised by the Provincial People's Council delegates to question members of the Provincial People's Committee at the mid-year meeting of 2023.
Right at the question and answer session, leaders of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, relevant agencies and localities made commitments to focus on directing the resolution of environmental pollution and limitations in the collection, transportation and treatment of domestic solid waste; environmental pollution at transfer points, waste gathering points, open-air landfills; renovating and upgrading incinerators, and plans to stop operations of incinerators that do not meet standards.
Implementing the commitments after the questioning, the Provincial People's Committee has directed functional agencies and localities to urgently deploy measures to overcome difficulties and limitations in the collection and transportation of household waste, and at the same time strictly handle cases of indiscriminate dumping.
Up to now, localities have basically handled and remedied the environmental pollution at concentrated waste collection points and incinerators. Typically, the People's Committee of Yen Khanh district has directed the communes of Khanh Hoa, Khanh Phu, and Khanh Tien to completely handle the waste remaining at the communes' landfills and not use the landfills as collection points. The People's Committee of Gia Vien district has directed the communes to transport and handle the waste remaining at the landfills. Up to now, the amount of solid waste remaining at the landfills has basically been handled, while Gia Hung commune is continuing to handle the amount of waste remaining from the previous period. The waste collection points in Kim Son district (Dong Huong commune, Quang Thien commune) and some points in Ninh Binh city have basically met the requirements on environmental sanitation, the waste is transferred and cleaned up by the collection unit on the same day.
Implementing the commitments in the questioning session on handling 32 temporary collection points (without transfer stations), localities have directed collection units to implement solutions such as: increasing the frequency of collection, transfer and cleaning the collection points on the same day or not collecting but collecting and transferring waste directly from garbage trucks to specialized vehicles for transport for treatment. Along with that, localities have also decided to stop the operation of 5 domestic solid waste incinerators because most of them do not have an exhaust gas treatment system and the equipment has degraded.
Accordingly, in order to strengthen State management of environmental protection, waste collection and treatment according to regulations, the Provincial People's Committee has issued many documents directing all levels and sectors to strengthen propaganda and dissemination of laws on waste classification, collection and treatment in the province.
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment has presided over and coordinated with relevant agencies and units to organize propaganda and training on environmental protection, focusing on guiding people to classify domestic solid waste at source according to the provisions of the Law on Environmental Protection.
Along with that, the Provincial People's Committee has directed the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to preside over and coordinate with agencies and units to organize inspections and examinations of compliance with environmental protection regulations at 11 units, of which 2 units have been fined and advised on administrative sanctions with a total amount of 675 million VND. At the same time, inspect and supervise compliance with regulations on management and treatment of domestic solid waste through inspection and confirmation of environmental criteria in the construction of new rural areas (NTM), advanced NTM and model NTM for communes and districts in the province.
Implementing the commitments in the questioning session at the 15th session of the 15th Provincial People's Council has shown the strong direction of the Provincial People's Committee and the active participation of functional agencies, sectors and localities, thereby not only overcoming limitations, creating strong changes in State management in the questioned fields but also contributing to consolidating and enhancing the trust of voters and people in Party committees and authorities at all levels, enhancing consensus in society.
Mai Lan
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