Hanoi: Sand is like an ’18 daughter’, often overlooked

This morning (December 8), the People’s Council of the city of Hanoi asked questions and answers to questions about the state management of the exploitation of sand, gravel and river bed.

Delta Nguyen Minh Duc (Thanh Xuan District) questioned the Hanoi Police Director about the city still has 13 illegal sand mining points, prompting public frustration, loss of resources and state budget revenue.

Duong Thi Hang Delta. Photo: Pham Hai

The city has a regulation of coordination with neighboring provinces, but so far implementation is still limited. He asked the director of the city police to tell him the cause and the solution.

Duong Thi Hang Delta (Gia Lam) stated that the illegal sand mining in Xuan Dinh Commune, Phuc Tho District, was carried out in a blatant and brazen manner.

She suggested that district and commune leaders respond to this problem and roles and responsibilities to deal with the urgent problems of the people.

Unable to dispel the bandits from the arena, people entered the president’s house to beat the drum and play the trumpet.

To answer Delta Hang’s questions, Hanoi City People’s Council Chairman Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc asked Xuan Dinh Commune (Phuc Tho District) Chairman of the People’s Committee Ho Quoc Khanh to reply .

Chairman of the Xuan Dinh Ho Quoc Khanh Commune. Photo: Pham Hai

Xuan Dinh Commune People’s Committee Chairman Ho Quoc Khanh said that sand bandits still roamed the commune. They rushed to the commune to mine the sand as a construction site since 2018, exploding all day and night. The district and the city have started projects.

At the end of 2019, the massive exploitation situation will end. For this year, they return and do it mainly at night. The city police marched in force. Several nights recently, there are still some fishing boats snatching up.

“They take 1-2 days to rest, the sand extraction between the Red River, the district and commune police is not equipped with specialized forces and means to be able to stop them completely,” said Mr. Khanh.

At present, the commune is being empowered but the mechanism is not assigned. The commune has no means of transportation so there is nothing to do.

The president of the Popular Council of the city immediately asked: In summary, what mechanism does the commune want to request?

Khanh said he could request a high-speed train and a dedicated force, which neither the commune nor the district have.

“In the period of 2018, 2019, the president of the commune is also very pressured. People buy drums, trumpets and lamps to drive away the sand suction pot. If you cannot drive away, go to the president’s house to play the drum and play the trumpet, “Khanh said.

The leaders of the Xuan Dinh commune said that the Red River sand in the Xuan Dinh commune is well managed, “like an 18-year-old girl”, so it is looked at every day by sand bandits, if there is no mechanism , it is very difficult to handle. .

“Recently, people have lost confidence in the commune authorities, thinking that this is different,” said the chairman of the Xuan Dinh commune.

He hopes the city cares about the cure. For people, the heart is healed, with the embankment broken due to sand suction, ask for money to repair it.

If it is not equipped with means and forces, the commune proposes to ask a traffic police force stationed in the commune to completely stop the illegal exploitation of sand bandits.

The president of the city council continued to ask: You have immediately informed your superiors about the responsibility, what did you not say yourself?

Mr. Khanh replied: “For the commune, it is actually captured, discovered and reported, but sometimes we only know to cheer up the brothers because it sucks in the river bed, I don’t know how.”

Anchored at Vinh Phuc, at night to steal sand in Hanoi.

Speaking more about the responsibility of the district, Phuc Tho District People’s Committee Chairman Phuc Tho Doan Trung Tuan admitted that sand bandits are a painful situation for many years in the area. The district’s functional forces have focused on handling, examining and sanctioning dozens of cases each year with fines in the hundreds of millions.

District President Phuc Tho Doan Trung Tuan. Photo: Pham Hai

However, due to the difficulty of human and material resources, the situation has not shown signs of improvement. In addition, the exploitation of the theft is mainly at night, so the secret and capture results are potentially more complicated and dangerous.

“The district is equipped with a single boat and a police comrade licensed to drive this boat. While the sand bandits are exploited in the middle of the river bed, the secret clothing is very difficult, ”said Mr. Tuan.

In addition, the exploiters take advantage of the anchorage in the points adjacent to the province of Vinh Phuc, and then at night, they exploit the theft in the territory of Hanoi.

Mr. Tuan suggested that the city will soon auction the right to mine the sand, approve the initial price to end the loss of revenue for the state and city budget, to maintain order in the area.

Commitment to handle 13 points with sand bandits

Regarding Delta Nguyen Minh Duc’s question, the chairman of the city’s People’s Council said, because the city police director is on a business trip in Ho Chi Minh City, the deputy director of the city police, Nguyen Thanh Tung.

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tung said that the city currently has 7 main rivers bordering 8 provinces, often with elusive sand exploiters in areas bordering the district.

Every year, the city police have a plan to request basic investigations at all levels, detecting 13 points of illegal sand extraction.

As of November this year, the city has 14 operating licenses, of which 11 are issued by the Popular Committee of the City; 8 organizations can mine floating sand with a valid deadline. There are 207 active mineral collection yards in the rivers, of which 57 have operating procedures and 150 yards have no operating procedures in the district.

The City Police has divided it into the Environmental Police Department, the Inland Waterways Traffic Police Division, and assigned it to the district and town police.

“The next time the regular police return to the commune, they will be assigned to this force. This will be a central force that will focus on detecting and coordinating effectively to combat the sand mining problem, ”said Mr. Tung.

Regarding the proposal of the localities to provide canoes, the deputy director of the Municipal Police said that this is very difficult, because when sand mining is discovered in the surrounding areas, the subject throws anchors to the place. other.

Hanoi Police Deputy Director Nguyen Thanh Tung. Photo: Pham Hai

Regarding the sand extraction means, the object often uses a boat with a straw to illegally exploit the sand, in some cases selling sand directly in the river. Most of these vehicles do not have license plates or plates.

“We have many recommendations for the Department of Transportation, for vehicles that are not anchored in the river but have yet to review the registry. Because without the means, you can’t exploit it, ”Tung said.

The president of the People’s Council of the City asked the Deputy Director of the City Police to focus on clearly establishing the responsibility of the police in 13 illegal sand mining sites and making recommendations and proposals.

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tung said that 13 points of illegal sand mining are mentioned as difficult points. The city police asked the Department of Transportation to coordinate the inspection of the unregistered boats. In addition, the police had 25 requests for departments, districts; consider and fully handle illegal terminals.

Strengthen inspection and coordination with forces in neighboring provinces. The city police also suggested that traffic inspectors continue to coordinate with the police force to check for offending vehicles.

The deputy director of the Municipal Police promised: With the responsibility of the police, we will not allow the extraction of sand in the river. As for the docks under the management of the Secretariat of Natural Resources and Environment, the authorities of the districts and municipalities coordinate, proposing to strengthen the handling of violating vehicles.

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