In December 2023, the prosecutor of the Yangzhong Municipal Procuratorate and the hearing officer carried out a return visit together to understand the rectification of the U-shaped ditch supporting high-standard farmland.
Recently, in a field in Yangzhong City, Jiangsu Province, villagers are seizing the opportunity of warming temperatures to divert water from a nearby ditch for winter irrigation to prevent cold air from entering the soil and freezing the root system. A few months ago, the villagers were still troubled by broken ditches and a massive loss of irrigation water.
In September 2023, the public interest litigation prosecution department of the Yangzhong Municipal Procuratorate received clues that there are 2The U-shaped ditch supporting 40,000 acres of high-standard farmland has damage to the roof, which has a serious impact on agricultural irrigation. The prosecutor handling the case immediately went to the ditch to carry out an investigation.
After investigation, the prosecutor learned that the ditch was built in 2022 and is 10 kilometers long, which is very important for the growth of crops. However, due to the quality of the project and the soil quality, the masonry of the ditch and the top of the edge of the ditch were cracked, and a large amount of agricultural water leaked when it flowed through the ditch. Subsequently, the prosecutor further learned that the main body responsible for the management and maintenance of the ditch was Baqiao Town ** and the Municipal Agriculture and Rural Bureau, and the two units had the problem of failing to perform their duties in the management and maintenance of the ditch.
In order to protect the irrigation lifeline of high-standard farmland, on November 28, 2023, the Yangzhong Municipal Procuratorate invited the person in charge of Baqiao Town** and the Agriculture and Rural Bureau, volunteers of "Benefiting the Public", and hearing officers to come to the ditch to hold an on-site hearing on the administrative public interest litigation to supervise and rectify the high-standard farmland infrastructure.
At the hearing, the procurator in charge introduced the basic situation of the case and interpreted the specific responsibilities of the management entity. The three hearing officers expressed their opinions on this basis, and prescribed 3 doses of "prescriptions" on the maintenance of the ditch on the spot: Baqiao Town** and the Municipal Agriculture and Rural Bureau refined their respective responsibilities, and urged the management and maintenance construction unit to carry out regular inspection and maintenance of the ditch facilities every month; Implement professional training for specific management personnel to help them timely discover damaged ditch facilities reported for repair during regular inspections; Every year, the budget funds for ditch management and maintenance are scientifically planned to ensure that once the ditch has a "disease", it can be obtained in time
Combined with the suggestions put forward by the hearing officers, the day after the hearing, the Yangzhong Municipal Procuratorate issued procuratorial suggestions to the two main responsible units for the management and protection. After receiving the procuratorial suggestion, the two units responded quickly, quickly met to refine the management and protection responsibilities, and invested more than 20 yuan in repair funds within a month, organized more than 10 special construction personnel, and repaired all the damaged parts along the ditch, plugged 8 kilometers of seepage loopholes, and compacted 30 square meters of loose canal body.
*: Procuratorial **, Procuratorial News Edition Author: Guan Ying Zhao Li).