Focus on responding to floods on Ba River (Dak Lak), Kon River (Gia Lai), ensuring people's safety

Focus on responding to floods on Ba River ( Dak Lak ) and Kon River (Gia Lai).

Telegrams sent to Secretaries and Chairmen of the People's Committees of Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Khanh Hoa provinces; Ministers of the Ministries of National Defense, Public Security, Agriculture and Environment, Finance, Construction, Industry and Trade, Education and Training, and Health, clearly stated:

Currently, the flood situation in Gia Lai , Dak Lak and Khanh Hoa provinces is very complicated. According to the forecast of the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the flood on the Kon River continues to rise and is above BĐ3, the Ba River at Phu Lam station continues to rise and is above BĐ3 and equal to the historical flood level of 1993.

To proactively prevent, avoid and respond to exceptionally large floods and emergency floods to ensure the safety of people's lives and minimize property damage, the Prime Minister requests the Secretaries and Chairmen of the People's Committees of the above-mentioned provinces and the Ministries and branches to continue to focus on drastic and effective implementation according to the Prime Minister's direction in Official Dispatches No. 217/CD-TTg, 218/CD-TTg, 219/CD-TTg of the Prime Minister, in which urgently carry out the following urgent tasks:

1. Mobilize military, police and other forces, all means, and by all means to immediately approach deeply flooded, isolated, and landslide-affected residential areas to promptly evacuate people to safety.

2. Ensure food, drinking water, and essential necessities in areas where people are evacuated and relocated to, so that people do not go hungry, cold, or lack drinking water, etc.

3. Proactively direct the safe operation of hydroelectric and irrigation reservoirs to ensure effective flood reduction and reduction for downstream areas, and absolutely prevent dam safety incidents.

4. Increase forces to control, support, guide, and remotely coordinate traffic to divert traffic, resolutely not allowing people and vehicles to enter deeply flooded and landslide areas.

5. Closely monitor the developments of especially heavy rains and floods and emergency floods; promptly inform authorities at all levels and people to proactively prevent and avoid them to the highest possible extent.

6. Ministers of the Ministries of National Defense and Finance shall promptly provide means and equipment upon request of localities to support overcoming consequences when requested by localities.

7. Ministries and branches, according to their functions, tasks and authority, proactively coordinate with localities to direct competent agencies to deploy work to prevent, combat and respond to especially heavy rains and floods, and limit damage.

8. Vietnam Television, Voice of Vietnam, and Vietnam News Agency increase the time and promptly provide information on natural disaster situations and response direction of functional agencies.

9. The Government Office monitors and urges ministries and localities to seriously implement this Official Dispatch; promptly reports to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in charge on urgent and arising issues./.

Source: https://gialai.gov.vn/tin-tuc/tin-kinh-te-tong-hop/tap-trung-ung-pho-voi-lu-tren-song-ba-dak-lak-song-kon-gia-lai-bao-dam-an-toan-tinh-mang-nguoi-dan.html