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Natural Disaster Management Committee Chairman Vice President U Henry Van Thio
accompanied by Union Minister for Construction U Han Zaw, Ayeyawady Region
Chief Minister U Hla Moe Aung, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and
Irrigation U Hla Kyaw and departmental officials inspected embankment
maintenance works to prevent river bank erosion in Ayeyawady Region Nyaungdon
Town yesterday afternoon.
First,
Vice President U Henry Van Thio and party were explained about embankment
maintenance works to prevent river bank erosion in Nyaungdon town conducted
yearly depending upon funds available and status of cooperation with
Netherlands on this by Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River
Systems Deputy Director General U Win Hlaing. Region Chief Minister U Hla Moe
Aung provided additional explanations.
Responding
to the explanations, Vice President U Henry Van Thio said that the Ayeyawady
Region was a region that had been facing natural disasters of flooding and
inundation yearly. To mitigate and reduce damages, funds had to be allocated to
clear and dredge dead or non-flowing rivers and creeks. He spoke about being in
Ayeyawady Region in 2016 to provide relief and assistance when there were
flooding and inundation; the outcome of the mitigation and prevention works
carried out since then may be seen now as reduction of losses from these natural
disasters in 2018. The Nyaungdon Town embankment maintenance works was an
important natural disaster prevention work and thus depending upon availability
of funds works must be conducted on priority areas, said the Vice President.
Next,
the Vice President and party inspected the embankment maintenance works
conducted along the river bank in Nyaungdon Town.
Directorate
of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems had been conducting yearly
embankment maintenance works in Nyaungdon Town since fiscal year 2017-2018. Of
the total length of 6,250 ft. of embankment work, 1,575 ft. had been conducted
and 4,675 ft. of embankment work remains to be done it is learnt.
MNA
(Translated
by Zaw Min)
PHOTO:
MNA
Ref;
The Global New Light of Myanmar
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