Vinh City will officially enforce the clearance of sidewalk encroachment from April 15.

(Baonghean) - Timplementing the policy of "Urban Order Year 2017",From April 15, Vinh city will enforce the clearance of cases of intentional encroachment on sidewalks.

Being the central block near the headquarters of Truong Thi ward, there are 4 roads surrounding the block where sidewalk trading still exists. These days, propaganda and mobilization work to encourage people not to encroach on sidewalks for business and trading is one of the main tasks that the Party cell of block 17 pays special attention to.

The way the block party cell does it is to regularly and continuously disseminate information on ensuring urban order, traffic order, and environmental sanitation with a radio broadcast time of 2 sessions/day including holidays; proactively install signs prohibiting encroachment on sidewalks, roadsides, and curbs. At the same time, through block meetings, disseminate and thoroughly understand the city's policy on "Urban Order Year 2017", organize the signing of commitments, and send notices of self-clearance to violators in the area. Party cell secretary of block 17, Truong Thi ward Nguyen Huy Tho shared: "The decisive factor is the awareness of each citizen.

Officials of Doi Cung ward (Vinh city) encourage people not to encroach on sidewalk corridors. Photo: Le Thanh

First of all, the Party cell promotes the exemplary role of cadres and Party members to spread among the masses. In the activities of the Party cell and the block, this content is integrated. Every month, the Party cell issues a Resolution for leadership. Thanks to good propaganda work, people in the block are aware of building a cultural lifestyle in residential areas from maintaining environmental hygiene, not littering, building clean and green roads, and a block that is clean from drugs.

According to statistics of Truong Thi ward, currently the ward has 90 named streets, of which 40 streets have sidewalk trading and business activities. After the plan of Vinh City Party Committee on implementing "Urban Order Year 2017", Truong Thi ward has established a steering committee to conduct statistics and review the subjects violating sidewalk corridors in 17 blocks, including agencies and schools in the area.

The Ward Party Committee determined that first of all, it would do a good job of propaganda, creating changes in awareness and action among each cadre, party member and the masses in order to promote the combined strength of the entire political system, creating a fundamental change in awareness, responsibility and action in leading, directing and organizing the implementation of cultural lifestyle and urban order. Accordingly, the authorities from the ward to the block implemented a commitment to strictly implement the urban information system, and prevent encroachment on corridors and sidewalks in production and business.

The Fatherland Front and its member organizations mobilized people to comply with the disposal of waste at the right time and place. The Women's Union and the Youth Union registered to carry out practical tasks such as taking on the construction of green, clean, and beautiful roads, not selling goods on the sidewalks... The Party Committee of Truong Thi Ward also drafted a Resolution on "Building a ward that meets urban civilization standards in the period of 2017 - 2020" to focus on leadership and direction.

Comrade Nguyen Nhu Mai - Secretary of the Ward Party Committee said: “Building a ward that meets urban civilization standards is an extremely difficult task, requiring the entire political system to participate. Not only residential areas but also agencies and units located in the area must actively coordinate to implement. For a long time, the Party Committee, government and political organizations of the ward have been mobilizing and have had initial results. On some roads, people have begun to voluntarily park their motorbikes and cars according to regulations.

For Doi Cung ward, in early March 2017, the ward Party Committee established a Steering Committee for urban management consisting of 12 members, headed by the Party Secretary himself. The ward Party Committee also assigned the cultural department to prepare content, record tapes and discs to broadcast to the blocks for propaganda on the loudspeaker system, and mobilize people to proactively dismantle illegal constructions.

Vinh City Youth Union propagates to car owners to park in the right place. Photo: Le Thanh

On the side of the Ward People's Committee, we focus on developing a detailed plan, schedule for clearing the traffic safety corridor, urban order, environmental sanitation with specific time, location of clearance and handling methods. The Ward also assigns specific tasks to the police force, urban rules directly to the blocks and households to propagate and mobilize, especially households that are not yet ideologically informed. It is worth noting that through propaganda work, some households have voluntarily dismantled the encroached sidewalks. For example, 12 households under the overpass on Nguyen Sinh Sac Street have installed mobile awnings that affect the urban space.

Faced with the above situation, the Ward Party Committee has directed the block and the ward's urban rules team to propagate and mobilize, and so far, households have voluntarily dismantled. Comrade Tran Hoang Song - Secretary of the Doi Cung Ward Party Committee said: "The Doi Cung Ward Party Committee has proposed an action program to drastically implement the work of information and communication. Especially, attaching the responsibility of the head, including this work in the criteria for evaluating the emulation of the year. The ward directs the cadres and civil servants assigned to monitor the residential area to directly follow the area, grasp the situation and urge the blocks to implement".

In 2017, in order to create a clear and positive change in urban civilization and order in both awareness and action of all classes of people, thereby joining hands to build Vinh city into a truly central urban area of ​​the North Central region, Vinh City Party Committee issued a plan to implement "Urban Civilization Year 2017". Accordingly, from March 17, Vinh City has begun to propagate and review violations of sidewalk encroachment, and at the same time notify people to voluntarily dismantle them.

This policy has been implemented synchronously by Party committees, authorities, the Fatherland Front and political organizations at all levels. For example, Vinh City Youth Union coordinated with the City Urban Management Department to carry out a campaign to propagate and guide people to stop and park their vehicles in the right places on the road. The City Fatherland Front actively implemented the campaign "All people unite to build new rural areas and civilized urban areas" at wards and communes. Vinh City Women's Union implemented a plan to implement urban culture at all levels of the union, a pilot steering group at the Women's Union of Truong Thi Ward on environmental sanitation and the Women's Union of Vinh Market on commercial civilization...

Comrade Nguyen Dinh Cat - Chairman of the Vinh City Fatherland Front Committee said: "Currently, the Fatherland Front at all levels of the city is implementing the Campaign "All people unite to build new rural areas and civilized urban areas", in which clearing traffic corridors and ensuring urban order are considered the key contents. Currently, the Fatherland Front is directing the construction of model urban civilized blocks to concretize this content".

Faced with the reality that urban order management still has many shortcomings, not commensurate with a civilized and modern city, Vinh City will direct and organize the drastic and synchronous implementation of solutions, focusing on education and raising awareness among the people; at the same time, inspect and strictly handle violations. According to the plan, from April 15, the city will forcibly clear away cases of intentional encroachment.

Comrade Vo Viet Thanh - Secretary of Vinh City Party Committee emphasized: “In 2017, Vinh City will focus on clearing sidewalk corridors, at the same time planning, arranging, and clearly defining parking lots... in a synchronous manner; assigning specific tasks, attaching responsibility to the heads including secretaries and chairmen of People's Committees of wards and communes in maintaining sustainable order on sidewalks after clearance. To successfully implement the city's policy, the important thing is the serious and drastic participation of Party committees, authorities of wards and communes and political and social organizations".

Le Thanh