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Pyithu Hluttaw: Pyithu Hluttaw discusses
proposal to suspend
construction of high-rise
buildings in Yangon: "THE Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower
House) discussed an urgent proposal
today that would suspend
the construction of high-rise
buildings in Yangon until they
meet all existing rules and regulations
for construction.
The parliament put the urgent
proposal on record, pledging
that it would monitor the issue.
Regarding the proposal,
Deputy Minister for Construction
U Soe Tint replied that the
ministry is closely supervising
buildings that are being built by
the ministry to ensure that they
follow the rules.
However, he added, the Yangon
City Development Committee
has set up a subcommittee of
experts to supervise the construction
of buildings higher than 11
storeys.
The construction of buildings
across the country should
follow the existing construction
rules and regulations, the deputy
minister said.
Also at yesterday?s Lower
House session, MPs asked questions
about the upgrading of a
school in Pakokku Township, the
drinking water supply in Bilin
Township, the repaying agriculture
loans in Tamu District and
about permissions to use virgin
and fallow lands.
MP Dr Soe Moe Aung from
Bilin Constituency asked whether
the Ministry of Agriculture and
Irrigation has a plan to supply
drinking water from the township?s
Kazai Dam to the wards
that face a scarcity of water every
summer.
Deputy Minister for Agriculture
and Irrigation U Khin Zaw
replied that the ministry mainly
supplies irrigation water to local
farms. However, the deputy minister
said, the ministry will cooperate
with local development
affairs departments to supply
drinking water to the wards if the
departments report on the issue to
the ministry.
MP U Khin Maung Shwe
from Tamu Constituency asked
whether the Ministry of Agriculture
and Irrigation has any
plan to settle the issue of farmers
struggling to repay agriculture
loans following the loss of their
farmlands to floods. The MP also
asked for the ministry to arrange
for virgin and fallow lands to
be provided to farmers who lost
their farms.
Deputy Minister U Khin
Zaw replied that the farmers
should request their township?s
bank manager to delay the deadline
for loan repayment.
During the last rainy season,
floods damaged 7,318 acres
of farmland in Tamu District, of
which 4,353 acres have been recovered.
At the parliament session,
Minister for Health Dr Than
Aung suggested that more wards
be added to Yangon General
Hospital, as the hospital has seen
an increase in the number of patients
it receives, jumping from
around 25,000 in 2013 to 62,500
in 2014."
Source/publisher:
Pyithu Hluttaw via "The Global New Light of Myanmar"
Date of Publication:
2016-01-08
Date of entry:
2016-02-03
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