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'Security light' - brightens up the country roads

Khanh Ly • DNUM_BHZAJZCACE 09:19

Despite many difficulties, thanks to skillful mass mobilization, in many villages and hamlets in Muong Noc commune (Que Phong district), people have contributed funds and working days to build rural roads associated with the "Security Lighting" model. This not only brings a new look to the village, but also contributes to maintaining security, order and peace in the village. From there, it creates motivation for people to feel secure in production, develop household economy, build new rural areas...

Nowadays, walking along the roads in Hai Lam village, Muong Noc commune at night is no longer dark and gloomy like before. Because the traffic system, including the branch roads within the village, have been concreted and installed with lighting bulbs for convenient travel. As soon as it gets dark, the street lights are turned on. Both sides of the inter-village road have become places for the elderly to cool off and places for children to play.

Talking to us, Mr. Nguyen Van Thang - Head of Hai Lam village, said: Although not the first village to implement this model, Hai Lam is the unit that called for 180 million VND to implement the project of lighting bulbs covering 8 inner-village roads, with a length of 7.4 km, not including some branch roads.

Previously, when the commune had a policy to implement the "Security Lighting" model, realizing that this was a good way of doing things and in line with the wishes of the people, the Hai Lam hamlet Party Cell issued a Resolution, then held an expanded Party Cell meeting with the participation of mass organizations to unify the plan, method of doing things, and estimate specific costs, then held a meeting to collect people's opinions and received high consensus and support. Accordingly, on average, each family contributed 900 thousand VND divided into two installments and was enthusiastically responded to.

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Chieu - a typical good businessman of Hai Lam hamlet, excitedly said: Since the electric lights were installed, the security and order situation has been stable, people's travel at night is convenient, the village and hamlet look much more civilized. Farmers like us who go to plant acacia and come back late from production are also more secure... With a synchronous transportation system, the agricultural products that people make are also consumed more conveniently because traders can come to buy them right at the garden, the income has increased many times compared to before.

Therefore, Mr. Chieu's family boldly implemented the planning of a standard NTM garden on an area of ​​nearly 4,000m2 divided into livestock areas, fruit tree growing areas, vegetable growing areas, fish ponds, installing automatic irrigation systems for crops, using clean production and livestock raising methods certified by VietGAP.

Hai Lam village has a total area of ​​320 hectares with 197 households, 782 people, 2 ethnic groups Thai and Kinh living together. The special thing about the village is that it is a place where people from 7 provinces and 19 districts nationwide gather to establish businesses and develop a multi-industry economy (forestry, livestock, vegetable growing, trading, labor export...).

Although coming from many different hometowns with different customs and practices, thanks to the skillful "people mobilization" of the village Party Committee and management board, they have promoted the strength of consensus and solidarity in building new rural areas.

According to Village Chief Nguyen Van Thang: Previously, the infrastructure in the village was poor and degraded, transportation was very difficult, and many roads were muddy. When the Resolution on building new rural areas was issued, the Party Committee and the Village Management Board determined that the first thing to do was to create a breakthrough in transportation, because only when transportation is convenient can production be stimulated, and the material and spiritual life of the people will also be improved.

Therefore, the village established a Development Committee headed by the Party Cell Secretary, directly assigning tasks to members to "go to every alley, knock on every door" in combination with hamlet meetings and mass activities to organize propaganda and mobilize people to donate land, contribute funds and labor to build rural roads and install street lights.

In which, cadres and party members take the lead and all projects and tasks promote the spirit of "serving the people" and the motto "people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect, people enjoy".

Thanks to that, up to now, the whole Hai Lam village has built 7 km of concrete roads within the village. People voluntarily donated thousands of square meters of land, demolished hundreds of meters of fences, contributed more than 800 million VND and more than 20,000 working days to build the road.

The village also called on the people, especially the children and grandchildren who went to work abroad (the whole village has 55 workers working abroad), to contribute 100 million VND to renovate the campus and purchase equipment for the cultural house... contributing to bringing Hai Lam village to meet new rural standards in 2023.

Not only in Hai Lam village, the movement to build roads and lighting has become a "breath of fresh air" creating a vibrant competitive atmosphere in Muong Noc commune. Each village has its own way of doing things, but all are supported by the people.

In Trung Son hamlet - where there are 153 households, 636 people, 6 ethnic groups living together. Taking advantage of the gathering of a large number of cadres, civil servants, and retired cadres, the Party Cell and the Hamlet Management Board have applied "skillful mass mobilization" combined with promoting the exemplary spirit of "saying goes hand in hand with doing" of cadres and Party members to mobilize people to contribute to the construction of cultural and sports facilities and institutions. Currently, 100% of rural roads in Trung Son hamlet have been concreted, this is also the hamlet with the most beautiful flag roads and electricity lines in the commune.

Ms. Hoang Thi Dung (62 years old) - Head of Trung Son Hamlet, said: Previously, the hamlet proactively installed lighting lines for about 2km along Highway 554B passing through the area. In 2003, when there was a policy to launch the "Security Lighting" model, the hamlet mobilized people to install 102 lighting bulbs on 5 inner-village roads, with a total cost of more than 200 million VND.

In addition, on average, each household pays 150,000 VND per year for power line maintenance and electricity bills. This policy is in line with the people's wishes and brings practical benefits to the people, so it is agreed and supported by the people.

As the unit selected to build a typical cultural hamlet model at the provincial level, in addition to repairing and upgrading the traffic system and installing "Security lights", Trung Son hamlet also mobilized people to contribute funds and working days to build flag roads with billboards and propaganda posters in the hamlet's cultural house, worth 20 million VND; upgraded 2 volleyball courts, built a soccer field for youth worth more than 50 million VND.

The campus of the cultural house and cultural institutions of the hamlet ensures the criteria of "bright, green, clean, beautiful" with a system of stone benches, trees, and trash cans supported by the people, children working far away, and organizations.

“The village has changed, everyone is excited, especially since the “Security Lighting” model was introduced. At night, the streets in Trung Son hamlet are as bright as the city streets. Students coming home late from school feel more secure, and people can exercise more conveniently... That is the result of the consensus of “Party's will - people's heart” towards the goal of building a new countryside in the spirit of “people working, people enjoying”, Ms. Hoang Thi Huyen - Head of the Front Committee of Trung Son hamlet happily said.

Muong Noc is located in the central area of ​​Que Phong district with a total natural area of ​​50.78 km2. The whole commune has 1,506 households, 6,422 people, including 3 ethnic groups Thai, Kinh, Kho Mu living in 11 hamlets and villages.

Since 2020, after merging Que Son and Muong Noc communes into Muong Noc commune, the entire political system of the commune has begun to build new rural areas. At this time, the commune has only achieved 14/19 criteria; of which, some hard criteria such as income, housing, multidimensional poverty, and transportation have not been met.

Therefore, in addition to solutions to eliminate makeshift houses, focus on converting highland and alluvial land to focus on vegetable and flower production, and build economic models to increase people's income, local authorities focus on propagating and mobilizing people to contribute labor and effort to build rural roads and civil works.

However, for localities with a high proportion of ethnic minorities (accounting for 67%), propaganda and mobilization to help people clearly realize that the people are the main subjects in building new rural areas is not easy.

Therefore, along with propaganda work in many forms, local Party committees and authorities require cadres and party members to promote the pioneering and exemplary spirit in movements, from site clearance to contributing labor and funds to build rural roads, flag roads, lighting lines, etc.; assign cadres in charge of hamlets and villages to accompany and implement with the people, creating a vibrant emulation movement to build new rural areas throughout the commune.

To encourage the movement, the Muong Noc commune Party Committee directed the political system to build models of mass mobilization that skillfully focus on "difficult" tasks such as: Site clearance; expanding rural roads, building secure power lines; resolving complicated "hot spots" and outstanding concerns arising at the grassroots level... Thereby, creating consensus in effectively implementing local political tasks, especially in implementing "difficult" criteria in new rural construction.

Thanks to the skillful combination of provincial and district funding, along with the mobilization of contributions from the people, up to now, 20.86km of village roads and inter-village roads in Muong Noc commune have been concreted, ensuring convenient traffic for cars. Projects such as the hard bridge over Nam Giai river, Thanh Phong 1 - Thanh Phong 2 inter-village road, and Truong Banh irrigation project have also been started and repaired.

In addition, according to local leaders: The commune has provincial road DT.544B with a total length of 6.58 km, district road H.336 with a length of 12 km, 01 communal road with a length of 4.56 km and 46 village and inter-village roads with a length of 20.86 km, 53 alley roads with a length of 9.73 km.

In recent times, the entire political system from the commune to the hamlets and villages in Muong Noc has mobilized the people to effectively implement the clearing of trees and bushes that obscure the view of vehicles, creating clear sidewalks and pavements; at the same time, regularly propagate to raise awareness for people, especially households trading goods along the provincial roads, not to encroach on sidewalks, roadsides, and curbs for trading, build, place platforms, make roofs or carry out other activities that encroach on traffic safety corridors, obstructing the view of vehicles participating in traffic...

The newly built or upgraded roads have changed the face of the countryside here; however, when the roads are clear, people are worried about traffic collisions or security and order issues that may arise, especially at night. To solve this problem and move towards building roads that meet the criteria of "bright - green - clean - beautiful", the local Party Committee and government have initiated the construction of a "Security Lighting" model throughout the commune.

Talking to us, comrade Lo Thi Hong - Secretary of the Party Committee of Muong Noc commune, said: Starting from the pilot units, seeing the practical effectiveness of the model, the people of the villages agreed to respond, voluntarily contributed more funds and with the support of agencies and businesses located in the area to expand the model throughout the commune.

The model has brought about many positive effects, both lighting up the roads, creating conditions for people to travel conveniently at night, and contributing to making village roads and alleys bright - green - clean - beautiful, limiting traffic accidents, reducing theft, reducing gatherings that cause disorder and insecurity... The model also contributes to improving the effectiveness of patrolling and controlling work of the grassroots security force and the Commune Police, ensuring peace and happiness for the people.

To ensure light and safety during use, Muong Noc commune authorities directed hamlet and village management boards to regularly check, repair and replace damaged light bulbs and electrical wires, and promptly handle situations that arise.

"In the near future, we will direct the "Security Light" model to be applied to the remaining 3 units to improve the material and spiritual life of the people, creating a new look for the village" - Comrade Lo Thi Hong said.

Promoting the people's strength to build and replicate the model of bright and beautiful traffic routes, creating a driving force to promote socio-economic development, ensuring security and order in the area has contributed to helping Muong Noc complete 19/19 criteria and was recognized by the Provincial People's Committee in Decision No. 2200 dated August 23, 2024 to meet new rural standards. Muong Noc is also the first unit of District 30a Que Phong to reach the new rural standard in the period of 2021-2025.