On December 12, the leader of the Nghe An Department of Agriculture and Environment said that after the recent major storms, the industry has established working groups to directly go to the Western region to survey and select locations to build resettlement areas for people in landslide, flash flood and flash flood areas.
Through the review, 21 resettlement areas in 15 communes have been identified, meeting the stable housing needs of more than 1,000 households. Currently, the Department of Finance is advising on funding allocation, prioritizing the implementation of urgent resettlement areas.
A representative of the Nghe An Department of Agriculture and Environment emphasized that the industry's viewpoint is to prioritize the arrangement of interspersed residents, ensure people soon stabilize their lives, and limit the recurrence of natural disaster risks. At the same time, the Department has sent a standing working group to support localities in processes and procedures to speed up the implementation progress.
Mr. Hoang Nghia Hieu - Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Council - suggested that the selection of resettlement locations must ensure long-term safety, avoiding the risk of further being affected by floods; at the same time, requesting early capital allocation to promptly deploy the construction of resettlement areas for people in disaster areas.
In 2025, Nghe An province will suffer 18 tornadoes, storms No. 3, 5, 6, 10 and the tropical depression in mid-August that will directly impact. The whole province had 12 deaths and 31 injuries due to natural disasters. Houses were damaged, of which over 70% were completely damaged; authorities have evacuated more than 13,000 households in areas at risk of landslides and flash floods to safe places.
Natural disasters also affected 1,154 schools; 250 medical facilities had their roofs blown off and walls collapsed; tens of thousands of hectares of rice and crops were buried and washed away; more than 1 million poultry and thousands of livestock died.
The traffic sector was severely damaged when more than 200,000 meters of traffic roads were damaged, 164 bridges of all kinds were swept away by the water or collapsed; more than 9,000 electric poles were broken. The total damage caused by natural disasters that Nghe An suffered is estimated at about VND 8,980 billion.
