Vinh City People's Council discussed many social issues

Scene of the group discussion session at the 11th session of the City People's Council for the 2016 - 2021 term. Photo: Mai Hoa

Removing difficulties for night streets

The Cao Thang night street project was invested and officially put into operation from October 2, 2019 with the expectation of creating a highlight for Vinh urban space at night. The formation of the night street also aims to promote economic development and create a commercial, cultural and entertainment exchange point for city residents and visitors from near and far.

Besides the positive effects, the operation of the night street is showing many limitations. This is also an issue raised by many delegates of the City People's Council within the framework of the program of the 11th session of the Vinh City People's Council.

Cao Thang night street during the day. Photo courtesy of Quang An

Cao Thang Night Street is 200 m long (from the main hall of Vinh Market to the intersection of Quang Trung, Phan Dinh Phung, Tran Phu streets), with an investment cost of nearly 7.5 billion VND. Including 114 stalls serving the business of ready-made garments, hats, shoes and sandals and a food court.

Delegate Vo Tuan Anh - Chairman of Doi Cung Ward People's Committee proposed the city to solve environmental pollution in the ancient citadel moat. Photo: Mai Hoa

Solving environmental problems

Concerned about the living environment of people on both sides of Vinh ancient citadel moat, delegate Vo Tuan Anh - Chairman of Doi Cung Ward People's Committee reflected the current situation of heavily polluted water in the ancient citadel moat, the water is black and smells bad.

Besides, the sand under the ancient citadel moat is deposited, occupying all the water storage area and the drainage in the ancient citadel moat is also inadequate.

From that reality, delegate Vo Tuan Anh proposed that the People's Council and the City People's Committee inspect and determine the cause, especially checking the function of some items that do not meet the original design, causing inadequacies and environmental pollution in the ancient citadel moat as it is now, in order to have a plan to promptly remedy the situation, associated with handling environmental pollution here.

Delegate Nguyen Quang Viet - Secretary of the Party Committee of Hung Phuc Ward reported that the arrangement of waste collection points is not suitable, causing environmental pollution. Photo: Mai Hoa

Another environmental issue mentioned by delegates is the unreasonable arrangement of trolley collection points and garbage collection points in the city. Delegate Nguyen Quang Viet - Secretary of the Party Committee of Hung Phuc Ward said that currently in the ward there are 7 parking and garbage collection points.

Although the collection and assembly of garbage at these 7 locations is carried out outside of business hours, it is not always outside of business hours; on the other hand, the collection and transportation process does not completely handle environmental pollution at these locations, affecting people's lives.

Inadequacies in the arrangement of garbage collection points on many city streets, affecting the environment. Photo by Mai Hoa.

Delegate Nguyen Quang Viet said that Vinh city is making efforts to build a civilized, green - clean - beautiful urban area and the first thing to pay attention to is finding a solution to overcome this situation.

In addition, some delegates also proposed that the People's Council and the People's Committee of the city allocate funds to dredge the drainage system throughout the city. Currently, many canals are clogged with soil, sand, and garbage, and the distance between the canals and the ground is only 20 cm in many places.

This is the cause of flooding in the city when it rains. If the city does not allocate resources to implement this content, it will be very difficult for wards and communes to implement it when their revenue is limited.

Mr. Nguyen Sy Dieu - Head of Finance and Planning Department of Vinh City clarified some recommendations and proposals of communes and wards related to the allocation of public investment capital. Photo: Mai Hoa

In addition to the above issues, at the group discussion session at the 11th meeting of the City People's Council on the afternoon of December 19, City People's Council delegates and representatives of wards and communes also proposed that the city should remove obstacles to speed up the issuance and reissuance of certificates of land use rights for households, especially communes merged into the city...