Union Minister Dr. Pe Myint and media in Rakhine

 November 14, 2017

To ensure the release of timely information on the implementation of UEHRD activity in Rakhine State, a media team led by Union Minister Dr. Pe Myint, accompanied by Chief Minister U Nyi Pu, yesterday inspected the paddy being reaped with the use of machine harvesters from the Mechanized Agriculture Department along Maungtaw-Angumaw Road in Myin Lut sub-township.

The construction of houses in Kyauk Pandu Village and the building of the Mayyu Mountain Road Overpass was also observed by the ministers yesterday morning.

The Union Minister and Chief Minister arrived at Kyauk Pandu Village, where an official explained that in 1993, the Ministry of Border Affairs built 70 houses for local nationals, with 100 more houses currently being built with the budget allotment for the development of the border area amounting to Ks650 million in FY 2016-2017. Now preparation work has been completed, the official said. Twenty-three units have already been roofed and walled, with the necessary construction materials to build the remaining homes already acquired. In addition to the residences, five ponds each capable of holding 1,200 gallons, a rural dispensary, a playground, a marketplace, a police outpost and a mini-grid solar system plant are included in the scheme.

The Union Minister and Chief Minister then inspected the May Yu Mountain Road Overpass project that is being accomplished with the use of heavy machinery by Road Special Team 17 of the Road Department.

Out of four May Yu Mountain Road overpasses being built by the Road Department, the 8-mile long Kyein Chaung-Guppi Overpass and the 14-mile long Kyauk Pandu-Inndin-Ceti Pyin Overpass will be built with emergency funds in March 2018 as gravel roads, with Thet Paing Nyar-Padagar Road and U Daung-Nyaung Chaung Road to be built in the coming fiscal year.

The ministers also inspected the Koe Tan Kauk police outpost in Rathedaung township, which was one of the outposts attacked by Islamic extremist terrorists on 9th October 2016. The ministers then left for Sittwe via Angumaw by speedboat.

In the afternoon, Union Minister and Chief Minister arrived in Sittwe to inspect the MRTV transmitting station, NPE’sSub-printing House (Sittway), Office of IPRD in Rakhine State.

The Union Minister and media team left Sittwe by air, arriving in Yangon in yesterday evening.

Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar