Grasp the plan, ensure the safety of the Provincial Defense and Civil Defense Area drills

On the morning of May 9, the Provincial People's Committee held a conference to deploy the tasks of the Defense Zone exercise and the Provincial Civil Defense exercise in 2022. Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Steering Committee, Head of the Exercise Organizing Committee chaired the conference.

Attending the conference were members of the Provincial Party Committee: Le Duc Cuong - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board; Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Board; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of Provincial Agencies; Pham The Tung - Director of the Provincial Police; Phan Dai Nghia - Commander of the Provincial Military Command; and leaders of relevant departments, branches and 5 localities.

View of the Conference on deploying tasks for the 2022 Provincial Defense Area and Civil Defense Exercises. Photo: Pham Bang

CONTENT OF PREPARATION TO ENSURE THE PLAN

Reporting at the conference, Colonel Dinh Bat Van - Deputy Commander, Chief of Staff of the Provincial Military Command said that up to now, preparations for the 2022 Provincial Defense Area exercise have been prepared according to plan.

For 5 localities: Hung Nguyen, Thanh Chuong, Tuong Duong, Vinh City, Cua Lo Town, they have focused on building the exercise command center according to the intention of the Military Region 4 Command; organizing inspections and reviews of forces and vehicles; perfecting and arranging the staffing of reserve units and militia and self-defense forces to serve the exercise.

Colonel Dinh Bat Van - Deputy Commander, Chief of Staff of the Provincial Military Command reported on preparations for the two exercises. Photo: Pham Bang

For the 2022 Provincial Civil Defense exercise, units promptly developed directive documents and implemented them; organized surveys and selected exercise locations.

The Provincial People's Committee has issued a Decision on the consolidation of the Organizing Committee, the supporting sub-committees, and the Secretariat for the 2022 Provincial Defense Zone and Civil Defense exercise and the draft assignment of tasks to members of the Organizing Committee for the 2022 Provincial Defense Zone and Civil Defense exercise.

Lieutenant Colonel Phan Dai Nghia - Commander, Provincial Military Command spoke at the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

The Provincial People's Committee has also issued a Plan to organize the Nghe An Provincial Defense Zone Exercise in 2022. The purpose is to improve the leadership and direction capacity of Party committees; management and operation of authorities at all levels according to Resolution 28/NQ-TW dated August 29, 2008 of the Politburo on "Continuing to build provinces and centrally-run cities into solid defense zones in the new situation".

At the same time, improve the level and capacity of the armed forces and departments, branches, and organizations in implementing emergency situations in national defense and security, shifting localities to wartime operations, and handling situations in defensive operations. Through drills, supplement and perfect the system of documents on defensive operations, and at the same time raise awareness among local cadres and people about national defense and security tasks in the new situation.

Comrade Trinh Van Nha - Chairman of Thanh Chuong District People's Committee reported on the preparation for the drill in the area. Photo: Pham Bang

The Provincial People's Committee has also drafted a Plan to organize a Provincial Civil Defense exercise to respond to disasters of fire, explosion, toxic chemicals and search and rescue in Nghe An province in 2022. The goal is to test and evaluate the training results, combat readiness, response and handling capabilities of the armed forces; the ability to ensure and participate in response of departments, branches, sectors and localities to disasters; as a basis for practical application.

PREPARE THE BEST CONDITIONS FOR A SUCCESSFUL AND SAFE REhearsal

Concluding the conference, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized that there is not much time left from now until the two exercises take place, while the content to be implemented is relatively large, with many new contents.

The assessment of the preparation work for the two drills so far has achieved basically good results, meeting the requirements compared to the progress, but the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested that all levels, sectors and units continue to carefully review the contents. For the Drill Organizing Committee, its members continue to carefully review the assigned tasks, and make timely adjustments if necessary. Departments, sectors, localities and members must have a firm grasp of the drill plan.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee concluded the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

The Provincial People's Committee Office coordinates with the Provincial Military Command to complete the plan for the Defense Zone and Civil Defense drills; assign tasks to members of the Drill Organizing Committee to submit to the Provincial People's Committee for promulgation; Advise the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Committee, Drill Organizing Committee, Provincial Civil Defense, Disaster Prevention and Search and Rescue Command to guide related contents, deploy drills at all levels and units to achieve good results, ensuring safety.

The units closely coordinate with the Provincial Party Committee Office, the Office of the National Assembly Delegation, the Provincial People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee Office, the Provincial Civil Defense, Disaster Prevention and Control and Search and Rescue Command Board to prepare content and ensure the meetings of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, the Provincial Party Executive Committee, the Provincial People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee and the meetings in the operation of the Civil Defense drill mechanism.

Comrades in the Provincial Party Standing Committee attended the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also requested the Organizing Committee to regularly monitor, direct, and evaluate the results and progress of departments, branches, and localities in developing plans and preparing drill contents; ensuring full mobilization of forces and means to participate in the drill, and developing backup plans for the forces. Contracting and coordinating with units of Military Region 4 to survey and prepare live training plans, deploying plans to ensure security and order, and plans to ensure safety for training drills.

The Organizing Committee regularly monitors, directs, guides, and inspects the drill units to develop plans, prepare content, and organize drills according to plan to achieve good and safe results; organizes trial drills for units to learn from experience.

The head of the Provincial People's Committee also assigned specific tasks to departments, branches, sectors and localities; at the same time, noted that during the preparation and practice of the drill, it should not affect the regular operations of the agencies and units./.