Despite the advantage of having a large number of urban areas and newly built public works, Nam Tu Liem District still shows inadequacies in ensuring urban order. To address this shortcoming, the district has made efforts in building roads that meet the criteria of neatly maintained, green, clean, pleasant-looking, and safe roads. In addition, the district has promoted the strict handling of violations of construction order and environmental sanitation.
Stores on Le Quang Dao Street with vehicles parked at the right places, ensuring no sidewalk encroachment.
Dai Mo Ward and Trung Van Ward (Nam Tu Liem District) are in the peak of handling violations of land law, construction order, and urban order. In Dai Mo Ward, the authorities have been focused on handling violations in problematic areas, such as the waste soil dumping area in Nhue river berm, Duoi area at Giao Quang residential quarter, areas with encroachment issues in the form of occupying space on roads for putting building materials and using agricultural land for sales activities at Dai Mo Street, Ngoc Truc Street, To Huu Street, and so on.
Households and individuals with business premises along Dai Mo Street were mobilized to voluntarily dismantle the infringing works and move the goods back 10 meters from the edge of the road to bring the street to a more neatly maintained state. In Trung Van Ward, the situation of encroachment of agricultural land has been complicated for many years, affecting the order and security of the ward, especially at the Ao Luon area of residential No. 17 at lots No. 58 – 60 on To Huu Street and Ngoi – Cau Trai area that is adjacent to Mo Lao New Urban Area (Ha Dong District). The People’s Committee of the ward has implemented measures to coercively dismantle the violation works. From now to the end of the year, the ward aims at completing the dismantling of works on agricultural land, restore the management order of land, urban spaces, and social security, and address the environmental pollution in residential areas.
Residents parked their vehicles at the right places on Ho Tun Mau Street
Nam Tu Liem District’s target of ensuring urban order for this year is “Neatly maintained, green, clean, pleasant-looking, and safe roads”. According to Mr. Nguyen Huy Cuong, Head of Office of Urban Management of the People’s Committee of the District, the outstanding results achieved in the first months of the year were the maintenance of criteria of urban order on the roads registered for recognition of the title of street of urban civilization, including Le Duc Tho Street, Le Quang Dao Street, Ho Tung Mau Street, Nguyen Co Thach Street, and Tran Huu Duc Street; 29 other well-maintained roads with almost no street vendor and road and sidewalk encroachment for business activities; properly-parked vehicles; roads with no pedestal leading down from sidewalks; well-maintained environmental sanitation, and so on.
Besides remarkable positive results, the district still has many shortcomings to address, such as traffic congestion in some areas due to fenced roads and the problem affecting environmental sanitation and the safety of people involved in traffic caused by soil and construction waste scattered from trucks coming out of construction sites, especially on Ho Tung Mau Street and Nguyen Trai Street where part of the urban metro rail project on the two routes of Nhon – Hanoi Train Station and Cat Linh – Ha Dong are under construction.
The implementation of urban order and civilization in the wards is also difficult due to the narrow internal traffic system and the large number of households operating business on streets and lanes. In addition, the infrastructure system, although invested in by the city, has failed to keep up with the fast pace of urbanization. Many residential areas have not been provided with clean water such as Dai Mo Ward, Xuan Phuong Ward, Phuong Canh Ward, and Tay Mo Ward. People in these areas have to use well water while the groundwater in the area has been found to be polluted and damaging to the health of the people.
According to Mr. Nguyen Trong Luong, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of the District, in an effort to maintain a good urban order and improve the quality of life of the people in the coming time, the district will accelerate the administrative reform and set up a system of urban authorities closer to the people to facilitate residents and businesses in completing administrative procedures, especially in the field of construction licensing.
The district has proposed for approval of the Department of Planning and Architecture typical the design of fence roofs and lean-to roofs to be applied at the front of business households on the roads registered for recognition of the title of street of urban civilization. The wards have been assigned to set up duty teams to intensify the inspection and handling of violations of urban order and ensure the attainment and effective maintenance of criteria of neatly-maintained road on My Dinh Street, Nguyen Hoang Street, Trung Van Street, Tay Mo Street, Dai Mo Street, To Huu Street, Phuong Canh Street and internal roads in My Dinh 1, My Dinh 2, and My Dinh – Me Tri urban areas.
The district has also researched to build playgrounds and cultural houses, and reviewed planned land plots to socialize the investment in parking lots. The district has continued to propose for installation of sewers into open ditches, renovate and upgrade the road and drainage systems of the wards, and accelerate the implementation progress of the project on five frame traffic routes in the area. In terms of environmental sanitation, the district focuses on addressing the environmental pollution in Trung Van Craft Village, surveying for the establishment of residential waste water treatment stations, reviewing waste dumps in construction project sites and requiring employers to take measures to protect the areas, disseminating information and mobilizing people to manage the allocated land areas in order to put an end to the dumping of waste in agricultural and public land, and so on.
Minh Hanh