Lady Temple festival annually attracts a large number of tourists everywhere. Therefore, work of order and security is always paid attention. Nguyen Ngoc Dung, vice chairman of Thu Dau Mot town People’s Committee cum vice head of 2011 Lady Temple festival steering board, said the work of order and security is strengthened in this year.

Could you forecast the situation of Lady Temple festival in this year?

As usual, in the festival Chinese community in Thu Dau Mot town holds festivities and Lady palanquin procession. In the town, aside from Thien Hau Lady Temple in Phu Cuong ward, there are many other temples holding festivities. Therefore, we estimate that there will be a significant increase of tourists on the festival.

 

Tourists in the front of Lady Temple’s gate.

 

However, crimes will also take advantage of crowd to do wrong-doings. Despite difficulties, the steering board of Lady Temple festival mapped out concrete plans to ensure order and security.

Specifically, we worked with the provincial Buddhist Society to control fake monks’ operation.

What plans did the steering board map out?

The steering board of Lady Temple festival in cooperation with local Public Security, Military Headquarter and functional agencies has controlled traffic safety, urban order and fire and crime prevention in the locality. The town division of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs has cooperated with localities to gather street kids into Center for street children management.

Meanwhile, medical centers have ensured food safety and hygiene as well as emergency in any cases. The market control team No.1 has conducted raids against trade of fake and poor-quality products…

Charges at parking lots become a hot issue, so what solutions will the board set out to control price hike at parking lots?

Right from lunar Dec. 30 evening, the Market Control Team No.1 in cooperation with Phu Cuong ward has checked private parking lots’ price listing. Until now, we have not yet receive any complaint of parking lot fees from people.

From Lunar Jan. 13-15, at parking lots tourists will pay VND2,000 per bicycle, VND5,000 per motorbike, and VND20,000 per 4-15 seat vehicle and VND30,000 per 25-seat vehicle.

Order and security is surely complicated in the festival. This requires cooperation from tourists to boycott mendacity, price hike…

Reported by T.Thao – Translated by A.C