PM orders mitigating damage from landslides, flash floods
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 8 signed a dispatch requesting efforts to prevent, control and mitigate damage from landslides, riverbank and coastal erosion, and flash floods.
Mu Cang Chai district following a flash flood (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – PrimeMinister Pham Minh Chinh on August 8 signed a dispatch requesting efforts toprevent, control and mitigate damage from landslides, riverbank and coastalerosion, and flash f🎃loods.
In the document, the PM asked ministers,chairpersons of People’s Committees of centrally-run cities and provinces andheads of relevant agencies to fully grasp the situation and proactively take necessarymeasures within their authority. In the immediate future, they must take severalurgent measures to ensure the safety of residents in areas highly prone tolandslides and flash floods, including evacuating them and their assets to safeareas, providing them with food and necessities, and raising public awarenessof the effort, especially in remote, mountainous, border, island and ethnicminority areas. In the long term, localities need to closely controlurban planning and construction activities, especially houses and structures inareas with sloping terrain, along rivers, streams, canals, coastal zones, andregions at risk of geological hazards. They were urged to prohibit and strictlydeal with violations related to the land use and management, forest protectionand construction in protected and special-use forests, and illegal mineralextraction. The PM ordered building projects and allocating resources for sustainableprojects aimed at preventing and mitigating landslides. Thechairpersons of the provincial People's Committees must be held accountable tothe PM and the law for any lack of responsibility for leadership and directionthat leads to severe loss of lives and property of the people. Specific tasks were also assigned to ministries, agencies concernedand the press. Since early July, landslides, flash floods, riverbank andcoastal erosion have caused severe damage to human lives, assets andproperties, roads and infrastructure facilities, particularly in the CentralHighlands, northern mountainous and Mekong Delta localities./.
Erosion has occurred about 30 metres along the coast in Vinh Trach Dong Commune in the southern city of Bac Lieu, threatening the safety of the dyke along the coast, according to the Bac Lieu provincial Committee for Flood and Storm Control, Search and Rescue.
A serious landslide caused by heavy rains occurred in Da Lat city, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong in early morning of June 29, damaging four houses.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on July 31 issued a dispatch requesting efforts to overcome the consequences of a landslide in Bao Loc Pass, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, and preparedness against heavy rains in the Central Highlands and the south.
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Mu Cang Chai district following a flash flood (Photo: VNA) 
