November
14, 2017
At
yesterday’s meeting, five asterisk-marked questions received replies, and
discussion on a bill and putting forward a motion were performed.
At
the meeting, Dr. Tun Naing, Deputy Minister for Electricity and Energy replied
to the question raised by U Pe Tin of constituency 6, in Mon State, “In the
sector of electricity in the FY 2014-2015 the production cost was Ks74.85 per
unit and the selling price was Ks74.14, thus the loss amount was Ks0.71 per
unit. In FY 2015-2016 the production cost was Ks90.65 per unit and selling
price was Ks70.42, so the loss amount per unit was Ks20.23, while in FY
2016-2017 the production cost Ks96.12, the selling price Ks69.02 per unit, thus
the loss was Ks27.10 per unit. Rising production costs is State-owned power
plants were said to be the cause for the losses in producing electricity. In
the sector of electricity production, the number of privately owned power
plants are annually increasing, presently reaching up to 50 per cent. In
producing electricity, greater amount of power production from natural gas,
which consumes much cost, more than the amount of production of electricity
from low-cost hydro power plants causes average production costs to rise.”
The
Deputy Minister added, “Foreign exchange rates usually change a lot every year,
so production costs annually rise up, with the increasing rates of foreign
exchange, due to rising up of power purchase from privately owned power plants
and rising costs for purchasing natural gas from the off-shore oil to operate natural
gas power plants. Present rises of electricity charges were caused by failure
to cover the production cost, greater amount of electricity consumption by
home-meters more than that by business and industry use meters. Arrangements
will be made for reducing power wastage, designating newly made reasonable
power prices as soon as possible, reducing dependency on natural gas which
consumes production cost much, instead producing electricity more from
hydro-power plants and other energy sources.”
Four
skills of English for
people
After
that, Daw Htu Mae of constituency 11 in Rakhine State put forward a motion
urging the Union Government, “In Myanmar, English has been being taught in
schools as a compulsory subject from KG to matriculation class. But upon completion
of academic learning at the matriculation classes, most of the students were
sorrowfully found to have been very poor in English language proficiency. So, I
hereby urge the Union Government to introduce teaching and examining the
language in appropriate method with 4 skills—reading, writing, speaking and
listening starting from grade 9, that is, 8th Standard Classes so that they can
have language competency to some extent upon completion of the matriculation.
In Myanmar, the presently prescribed English Syllabus has only two
skills—reading and writing skills. And, it was found that in examinations as
well, the above-said two skills were found to have been being examined mainly.”
She
added, “As known by all, they still lack skills in them practically. Under the
current situations, Myanmar citizens are losing job opportunities of great
promise in the country due to lack of qualifications in the language. So, it is
of great need for students across the nation to apply English for an access to
advanced subjects and cutting-edge technology through Information Technology.
It is necessary to know English for acquisition of Scholarship Awards in
International Institutes and Universities, professions and employments of great
promise. Only if job opportunities have been achieved, can our people be
liberated from poverty. With a view to producing well-qualified citizens who
know English to some extent and can learn life-long study upon completion of
the high-school level academic learning, syllabus, teaching and examination
methods should be changed in appropriate way.” 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 6th Regular
Session’s 12th day meeting will continue to be held on November 15.
By
Aye Aye Thant
Ref;
The Global New Light of Myanmar
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