The situation of overloaded watercraft is common, but the handling of the functional forces is not easy Heart attack with “beam train” In the early days of June 2021, at the post to regulate water traffic at Chuong Duong – Long Bien bridge cluster on the Red River, due to the start of the rainy season, the water level often changes rapidly. However, the situation of overloaded watercraft, especially sand, gravel and construction materials is very common. Many ships carry heavy loads, the hull is deeply sunken, causing water to overflow on the deck on both sides of the ship, feeling like a big wave or storm, the ship can sink at any time. “Every day there are several hundred ships carrying sand and gravel passing through here, there is no ship carrying a load. Every ship carries “beams”. Looking at the ships flooded with water on the floor made my heart flutter. Any train that goes near or recklessly passes when crossing the bridge to create a big wave, I don’t know what the consequences will be,” an employee of the regulation station said. The leader of the Water Traffic Regulatory Station at Duong Bridge said that from the beginning of the year until now, 5-6 cases of cargo ships having problems and being rescued by the rescue station at the above location are overloaded ships. “The stream over the Duong bridge flows fast and round, if the ship is weak and overloaded, the risk of accidents is very high. In the recent cases, if they were not saved in time and crashed into the bridge pier, I don’t know what the consequences would be,” said Mr. Tran Duc Hai, commander of the Duong bridge’s traffic regulation station. Mr. Tran Xuan Khoi, Director of the No. 1 Inland Waterway Management and Maintenance Joint Stock Company, also informed that most of the cases of vehicles having accidents ran aground or sunk at black spots such as Duc Bac reef, Van Lang bridge … are overloaded vehicles. Overloaded ships when traveling through complicated points and channel positions are easily passive and dangerous when avoiding each other or being pushed across by water. Through the camera, we discovered that the overloaded ship was the main “culprit” of flattening and drifting buoys in some dangerous channel locations”, Mr. Crew members of some construction material ships on the Lo River – Red River route admit that overloading is very dangerous, but for the sake of profit, they still have to take risks. “The owner of the sand mine when selling goods only measures the volume, not the size of the container, so he has to load the beams. I know it’s risky, but I have to take the risk,” said Tuan and the owner of the ship VP-xx35, saying that now every ship is overloaded, because carrying the right load, the right registration is not “racing”. with other ships. Hard to deal with Representatives of the above-mentioned waterway maintenance management units said that from the end of June to October every year, waterway traffic in the northern region is often more complicated due to entering the rainy and stormy season. Therefore, functional forces need to strengthen control and strictly handle overloaded watercraft to reduce the risk of traffic accidents and protect the lives of crew members. Mr. Khuong Kim Tao, former deputy chief of the Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee, said that overloading is also a direct cause of traffic accidents and incidents of watercraft when participating in traffic. Therefore, this situation needs to be dealt with immediately. “The regulations on the management and handling of violations of the load of watercraft are quite complete, but why is the violation of overloading still common?”, Mr. Tao questioned and said, the most inadequate today. is the handling of the unresolved authorities. Also, because it has not been implemented to force ships to unload, or to temporarily seize overloaded watercraft according to regulations, it leads to violation of the law. At this point, it is necessary to have a progressive sanction solution for violating watercraft carrying too many times, deducting fines from the account, income of enterprises and owners of violating means instead of having to “follow” the method. facilities for temporary detention,” suggested Mr. Tao. Mr. Luu Xuan Binh, former deputy head of the Office of Traffic Safety Committee in Hanoi shared, having directly surveyed the handling of water traffic violations many times, he witnessed the functional forces facing many difficulties. That is when sanctioning or suspending overloaded vehicles, it is not easy to organize unloading, while there is also no parking lot for vehicles to keep. “The control and handling of violations of overloading on waterways needs to be synchronized at all relevant stages, from the source of goods, ports, receiving terminals and means of transport. If only focusing on handling on the transportation journey will not be effective, “said Mr. Binh. According to Colonel Nguyen Vinh Giang, Head of the Department of Guidance on Traffic Control and the fight and prevention of crimes on waterways (Department of Traffic Police), it is necessary to increase the level of penalties to strictly handle violations of overloading. However, the current limitation is that the system of anchoring and keeping vehicles has been suspended from operation. “So, along with raising the level of fines, localities need to organize the anchoring and keeping areas of suspended watercraft in order to completely handle this situation,” Colonel Giang said. Increase the fine to 15 million According to a representative of the Vietnam Inland Waterway Administration, the current fine for overloaded vehicles is only 12 million VND. In the Draft Decree on handling of administrative violations in the field of waterway traffic (replacing Decree 132/2015), the highest fine level is set at 15 million VND.

One person offered to sell tiger fish for nearly 20 million VND / fish Assessing the danger level of piranha to the ecosystem, since 1998, the Ministry of Fisheries (now the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) has issued a directive banning import and farming of this fish. However, in Ho Chi Minh City, the fish that often appear in these horror movies are being sold publicly. At a selling point of ornamental fish in P. Linh Dong, Thu Duc city, a tank full of tiger fish is located in the middle of the store. The owner of the store, Hoang Hai, said that the tank currently has about 500 red belly piranhas with a length of 4-5 cm, each costing 90,000 VND. “Due to the large number, we have to feed the fish with bran, but there are always a few other fish species in the tank for them to whine when hungry. Just two more months, they will grow about 7-9cm, then they develop very slowly in length ”- Mr. Hai added. According to him, currently most piranha breeders choose red-bellied species because they are easy to breed and easy to keep. Yellow belly piranhas are difficult to propagate and must be hunted in the wild, so the price is always many times higher than the red belly piranhas. When we asked about the natural hunting ground, Mr. Hai refused to answer. At a selling point of ornamental fish in Binh Thanh District, the owner of a shop named Thuan said that this place sells mature red-bellied piranhas, as big as an adult’s hand. VND 500,000 / child. This same species, but with a hump on the nape is called a “hump” fish, costing a million dong each. Mr. Thuan added: “Rarely, the yellow-bellied tiger fish, 32cm in length, 17-19cm in size, costs 8 million VND / fish, and when grown up, it costs about 19 million VND / fish. In order to keep the piranhas, at least five need to be stocked in a tank ”. All piranhas at this store come from the Amazon region of Brazil, he said. “The movement to raise tiger fish from 2018 has been maintained until now. People who play unique ornamental fish like to hunt for piranhas to raise because they have eye-catching colors, many types, small body but very aggressive and aggressive. Newcomers of tiger fish often raise red-bellied tiger fish or Newbe, Manu, Mac, Cariba, then “upgrade” to the most aggressive species, Black Diamond “- owner of an aquarium shop in District 7 named Tinh, said. According to Tinh, tiger fish do not eat pellets, dry or frozen food. To limit the aggressiveness of this fish, some people replace raw meat with vegetarian food when they are young. However, when changing the diet is not suitable, the fish can “go crazy”, eating fellow meat. “Piranhas can bite people. Many of my clients often suffer from fish bites bleeding or scratching their hands when changing seaweed, taking things in the tank “- Mr. Tinh said. Not only selling publicly in stores, but also available for sale on the internet, most popularly via Facebook. Most of the website owners promote an unlimited number of fish, including red and yellow belly piranhas, the average price is from 90,000-170,000 VND / fish. Talking to the reporter of Ho Chi Minh City Women’s Newspaper, Mr. Dinh Minh Hiep – Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development – confirmed that tiger fish are in the group of alien species, not allowed to import and grow; All forms of raising, trading and importing are in violation of the law: “Any locality that detects it, it will confiscate, destroy and sanction based on the level of violation”. (According to Women HCMC)

Mr. Tran Van Nhung showed PV the area of ​​the encroached rice field to make a factory illegally. Photo: Dinh Muoi.

Sanction and then ‘ignore’ for mistakes

Mr. Tran Van Nhung, living in hamlet 6, Tuy Lac village, Thuy Trieu commune, Thuy Nguyen district, accused Tran Van Thuan and his son Tran Van Thanh of buying land in hamlet 6, Tuy Lac village of Mr. Huan for speculation.

In the process of pouring land for building walls, Mr. Thuan and Mr. Thanh encroached on the drainage ditch of the whole village (500 households) with a total area of ​​95m2.

This incident happened for many years. Although Mr. Nhung repeatedly reported and complained to the Commune People’s Committee, the government did not resolve it, but even mobilized to withdraw the petition.

“Mr. Thuan’s family has encroached on the entire eastern drainage ditch of the whole hamlet with an area of ​​75 square meters, encroaching the southern lane with a width of 2 meters and a length of 10 meters. Every rain, the water cannot be drained, so it floods the whole village, the waste flows into people’s houses, affecting crops … ”, Mr. Nhung is annoyed.

On the other hand, Mr. Nhung also denounced that, from 2017 – 2018, the People’s Committee of Thuy Trieu commune ignored Mr. Thuan’s family to pour stone bricks and tender lime into the rice fields that had been bought from the people and built factories and buildings. try on farmland thousands of square meters.

Regarding this, according to PV’s research, from April 2010 to June 2010, the People’s Committee of Thuy Trieu commune has issued a decision to sanction an administrative violation against Mr. Thuan’s household in the illegal construction area 924m2. with the amount of 2 million VND, then ‘shut up’ until now, while the factory continues to exist and operate on agricultural land.

The factory has nearly 1,000 square meters of carefree area located on rice land for many years. Photo: Dinh Muoi.

Regarding this issue, Mr. Le Van Khuong, Chairman of Thuy Trieu Commune People’s Committee, said that the content of Mr. Denunciations is grounded, the incident happened a long time ago, is the result of the past, if the Early complaints may have been resolved.

“When building the wall of the above land lot, Mr. Thuan encroached on the 3-way drainage ditch 2m north, 2m south and 40cm east with an encroachment area of ​​52 m2, and Mr. Thuan’s factory built on land. The actual inspection of agriculture is nearly 1,000 square meters. Currently, the district has directed the inspection and treatment, ”said Mr. Khuong.

Serial error

Since the wrongdoing is not completely handled, up to now, in the area of ​​hamlet 6, Tuy Lac village, Thuy Trieu commune, in addition to Mr. Thuan’s mistake, the People’s Committee of Thuy Trieu commune continues to detect a number of other households also encroaching. thousands of square meters of agricultural land.

For example, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Rum’s household and some other households built, gardened on agricultural land 828m2; Mr. Le Van Ngan’s household built on agricultural land, 445m2; household of Mr. Tran Van Hung illegally building on agricultural land is 270m2 …

Mr. Le Van Khuong, Chairman of Thuy Trieu Commune People’s Committee during the meeting with PV. Photo: Dinh Muoi.

In these cases, some households have committed violations for a long time, some households are still in violation, however, Mr. Le Van Khuong – Chairman of Thuy Trieu Commune People’s Committee affirms that local authorities have just grasped, still Mr. Thuan’s violation is the “past” to leave.

“The process of checking and verifying his complaint But we recently discovered a number of other households in hamlet 6, also violated, we asked the households to dismantle the violated works and return it. premises according to regulations. However, if the project is built before July 1, 2014, it may not be dismantled, ”said Khuong.

According to PV’s research, in addition to signs of letting go of management and ‘ignoring’ the wrongdoing that existed in the area for many years, in 2001, the People’s Committee of Thuy Trieu commune granted authorized bond land to 6 households in the area. pond area of ​​Tuy Lac village, of which there is 1 land lot currently being used by Mr. Van Thuan.

Up to now, although nearly 20 years have passed, the case has not been resolved completely, although the people have fulfilled their financial obligations to the state, the commune has collected land but not paid to the budget and 6 households. has not been granted a land use right certificate.

The question is, why are thousands of square meters of rice cultivated land encroached upon, used for the wrong purpose in a long time but not discovered, in the case that the local government was found not to be completely dealt with. .

On the other hand, the violation happened on a large scale, quite clearly, but the local authorities only verified and handled them when there were recommendations from the people, causing frustration in public opinion.