Second Amyotha Hluttaw’s 9th regular session holds third day meeting

The second Amyotha Hluttaw’s ninth regular session held its third-day meeting at the Amyotha Hluttaw meeting hall yesterday morning. At the meeting, asterisk-marked questions were answered and a bill discussed.

Asterisk-marked questions

U Myint Naing of Rakhine State constituency 5 asked if there is a plan to include Santhitpyin, Thinbawkway, and Thongwa @ Kwingyi (Rakhine) villages in Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State in the village list under the Ministry of Home Affairs and to designate the lands of these villages as village land. Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Maj-Gen Aung Thu answered that Santhitpyin and Thongwa @ Kwingyi (Rakhine) villages are already included in the village list under the Ministry of Home Affairs, while Thinbawkway village is included in the Myothit Ward area, so there is no need to include it in the villages under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The land of Thinbawkway Village was designated as grazing land and processing is underway to remove it from the grazing land designation. Kwingyi (Rakhine) Village land is fallow land and will be processed, so the land can be used in other ways.

U Kyaw Thaung of Sagaing Region constituency 1 asked if there is a plan to construct offices, housing and detention cells required at Mingun area police station and Ywathitgyi area police station in Sagaing Township, Sagaing Region. Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Maj-Gen Aung Thu replied that funds to construct a single storey office building with a detention cell attached, with six rooms per storey, and four-storey staff housing for both police stations were requested in the 2018-2019 budget.

Similarly, questions by U Win Maung of Magway Region constituency 6, U Kyaw Than of Rakhine State constituency 10 and U Kyaw Kyaw of Rakhine State constituency 4 were answered by Deputy Minister Maj-Gen Aung Thu.

Discussing a bill

Next, International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University Bill was discussed by U Kyaw Naing of the Yangon Region constituency 12, U Ko Ko Naing of Sagaing Region constituency 8, Dr. Win Myint of Bago Region constituency 11 and U Tin Aung Tun of Magway Region constituency 5.

The Hluttaw representatives’ discussion on the bill includes qualifications of the Rector and Pro Rector, entitlement for monks and non-public officials and word usages, among others.

The fourth-day meeting of the second Amyotha Hluttaw’s ninth regular session will be held on 2 August, it is learnt.

Aung Ye Thwin

Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar