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The official said that it is the responsibility of the Hanoi administration to ensure traffic safety and to curb traffic jams in the city. “The Prime Minister asked Hanoi authorities to combine with the Ministry of Transport to find traffic solutions,” Dam added.
Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son said that while waiting for the final plan, the Government asked competent agencies and local governments to call for people to obey the traffic law to reduce gridlocks.
“Changing working time will have great impacts on many people so it is necessary to collect people’s opinion about this,” Son cited Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s instruction.
According to the Government Office, traffic jams mainly occur in big cities like Hanoi and HCM City. Hanoi changed working hours in 2003.
The Ministry of Transport submitted a plan on changing working time to the Government in late October. The plan offers different working time for nine groups. Employees of central agencies will run from 9am to 6pm. The time will be one hour later than present time for Hanoi’s public servants. Students are divided into six groups of time.
Hanoi just submitted its plan to the government on November 6. This plan has three groups. The first group includes employees of government agencies and Hanoi’s state agencies, kindergarten, primary and junior secondary students. For this group, the working hours will be nearly unchanged. However, employees of central agencies will work half of hour earlier than employees of local agencies, from 7.30am to 4.30pm.
The second group includes college students and high school students who will begin studying before 7am for the morning shift and finish after 6pm for the afternoon shift.
The third group consists of shopping and service centers, which will open from 9am and close after 7pm.
The city government plans to apply the change in 12 out of 29 districts, starting from January 1, 2012.
Mai Ngoc
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