Senior General Min Aung Hlaing underlined that the Bagan-NyaungU region needs to emphasize land management, especially as it possesses ancient cultural heritage lands. Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, accompanied by his entourage and chief ministers of Mandalay and Magway regions, yesterday afternoon met departmental officials of NyaungU District at Bagan Cultural Museum in the Bagan Ancient Cultural Heritage Zone to talk about regional development measures. He heard reports on the development process of NyaungU District, agriculture and livestock sectors, tourism, healthcare services, upgrade of roads, inundation of lakes and damage of some ancient buildings in recent heavy rains in Bagan presented by officials.
Union ministers discussed water supply projects in NyaungU District, maintenance of ancient lakes and religious edifices and beautification of the city. In his speech, the Senior General stressed the need to dig drains along both sides of roads for proper flow of water and systematically keep road directions in accord with the set characteristics. In education, he highlighted that the number of students in NyaungU District accounted for 17 per cent of more than 500,000 population of the district.
Among those students, just 12.88 per cent of students learn high school education with lesser changes in learning grades, he added. He noted that all school-age children have to complete KG+9 education.
Although the government fulfils the needs as much as it can, residents need to strive to develop agricultural tasks and implement solar-powered river water pumping projects on a self-reliant basis. Increasing the incomes of residents will contribute to improving the money circulation of the region and regional development. He continued that giving accommodation and food supply services to travellers who wish to enjoy ancient cultural heritages and natural beauties aims to develop NyaungU District.
Hence, he added that it is necessary to beautify the region, create a better landscape of the district, standardize domestic foodstuffs in production and give accommodation services to travellers. Bagan-NyaungU region needs to emphasize land management, especially as it possesses ancient cultural heritage lands. The government is preparing to upgrade NyaungU Airport in order to develop local and foreign travellers who will be able to travel to the Bagan Ancient Cultural Heritage Zone.
The Senior General met teachers and staff at Lacquerware Technology College, where Union Minister for Cooperatives and Rural Development U Hla Moe reported on conducting lacquerware courses, assessment of skills of trainees, opening of libraries, operating the lacquerware museum and sale centre. College Principal Daw Nilar Myint presented training courses on lacquerware techniques at schools abroad, gave lectures to foreign experts, discussed labour shortage in the lacquerware industry, and discussed the emergence of the college. The Senior General gave guidance on efforts to preserve lacquerware techniques.
The Senior General viewed round the lacquerware works of trainees at the lacquerware technique hall and production process. In his guidance, the Senior General urged all to sustain prestigious works of lacquerware, preserve the production techniques, and provide necessary aid for students. While flying over the Bagan Ancient Cultural Zone, the Senior General inspected the preservation of ancient religious edifices, the inflow of water to ancient lakes, including the emerald lake, greening tasks in the Bagan-NyaungU region and the thriving of crops in the Bagan-NyaungU-Pyawbwe regions.
He overviewed landslides caused by torrential rains from the Shan plateau and mountains, which caused flooding in some townships in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area due to heavy rains starting from 10 September triggered by Typhoon Yagi from South China Sea and a deep depression from the Bay of Bengal, inflow of water from these hilly areas to Hsinthay Creek via Mone, Nawin and Kintha creeks, and leaving silted areas, damaged croplands and inundated some villages after water has ebbed. The Senior General gave instructions on how to rehabilitate and take preventive measures against natural disasters. — MNA/TTA.
