State Reserves: Ready for flood relief in the northern mountainous provinces

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Heavy rains and floods cause severe damage to people and property in the northern provinces.

According to the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting, the number of tropical storms and depressions operating in the Eastern Sea will directly affect mainland Vietnam in 2018, which is likely to be equivalent to the average level in past years. Facing the complicated development, how has the State Reserves prepared to respond to natural disasters?

In recent times, our country regularly receives 15-17 storms and tropical depressions from the sea. Floods, landslides, etc., have become increasingly complex and unpredictable, causing great damage to people and State property, especially in the northern mountainous provinces.

As a state management agency of the National Reserves, in order to ensure the target for rescue, support of goods, materials and equipment from State Reserves to people to overcome disastrous consequences under the decisions by competent authorities, the General Department of State Reserves has asked heads of units to pay attention to developing plans to: Prevent and combat natural disasters; strengthen and disseminate propaganda for the awareness of civil servants for prevention of natural disasters, which is one of the regular tasks of civil servants in the State Reserves sector. Also, regularly directing updates and dissemination of ordinances and natural disaster prevention and combat, so that civil servants can take the initiative in preventing and responding to storms and floods in a timely fashion.

In addition, regularly checking the quality of goods in stock; ready for delivery and transportation in all circumstances; having specific plans on human resources, material resources and means to be ready to deploy the task immediately.

Particularly, thoroughly directing State Reserves Departments to implement well the motto of "4 on the spot". Assigning tasks for inspecting and urging each store, focusing on preventing leaks, storm storage of goods, and dredging drainage ditches around the storage areas. Consolidating the embankments of storage areas with risk of floods in order to ensure the absolute safety for national reserve assets and goods

Director General of State Reserves Do Viet Duc

The floods and landslides in the northern mountainous provinces have claimed 19 human lives, caused economic damage of tens of billion. What have the General Department of State Reserves done to actively respond?

As soon as the floods occurred, the General Department of State Reserves sent an express electric dispatch to State Reserves Departments in provinces: Tay Bac, Hoang Lien Son, Vinh Phu, Bac Thai and Ha Bac (in charge of the northern mountainous provinces) on responding to the impact of the North West - South East depression, causing heavy rains and floods in the North. In which: requesting the regional Departments of State Reserves to arrange forces to control floods and storms 24/24 hours to monitor the development of storms; to carry out the task of storm and flood prevention and combat; to introduce plans to actively respond and coordinate with local authorities at all levels to immediately handle and respond to heavy rains, floods, flash floods and landslides, which are possible to occur in the area to ensure the absolute safety for people, properties and state reserve goods.

The General Department has instructed the heads of units to take the initiative in closely coordinating with the departments and units to receive supported rice for delivery, and transport in the right quantity and good quality to localities.

In addition, the General Department of State Reserves also requested the regional Departments to carry out the preparation work in all aspects in order to be ready to export the state reserve goods upon a decision by competent authorities. The regional Departments which are importing and exporting the state reserve goods must have measures to ensure the absolute safety for the goods during transport and delivery.

During the implementation, promptly reporting to the General Department for monitoring and guidance.

Facing the serious damage caused by the impact of the northwest - southeast depression trough, causing heavy rains, storms and floods in the North, how has the General Department prepared to ensure the absolute safety for state reserve goods and to achieve the highest results in the relief as soon as the Prime Minister’s Decision on the export of state reserve goods to support to the people is issued, sir?

To ensure the absolute safety for the State reserve goods, in recent years, the state reserve storage system has received investment, and made improvements to meet the requirements of state reserve goods towards long-term preservation. The quality of input of state reserve goods is strictly inspected and supervised in accordance with the standard of quality of goods imported into national reserves stores; the civil servants of State Reserves sector are enthusiastic with their job and are trained professionally in the preservation of state reserve goods. Therefore, the state reserves goods exported to localities are always qualified, in time and safe, thus, local people have highly appreciated the role of the state reserve sectors.

In order for the relief by state reserve goods to implement promptly to the people, the General Department has focused on a number of basic solutions, including:

Firstly, based on the quantity of rice provided and the plan to receive rice from the People's Committees of provinces, the General Department has instructed the heads of the units to take the initiative in closely coordinating with other departments and units which are assigned the task of receiving rice supported by localities, to release from stores and transport and deliver in sufficient quantity and good quality to the localities.

Secondly, requesting the heads of units to plan to arrange rice sources and means of transport, mobilizing civil servants to be ready for coordinating with local authorities in rice delivery; intensifying the inspection and supervision of the allocation, management and use of rice in strict compliance with the regulations on management and use of state reserve goods.

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Thirdly, advising and proposing to the Ministry of Finance to supply the state reserve in a timely fashion according to the competence of the Minister of Finance as provided for in the Law on State Reserves and Law on State Budget. At the same time, reporting to the Prime Minister about urgent emergencies to release State reserve goods to localities in amounts beyond the decision competence of the Minister of Finance, and proposing to the Prime Minister to permit the Ministry of Finance (General Department of State Reserves) to promptly supply the goods in emergency situations, then reporting to the Prime Minister on the implementation results.

Thank you very much!