Independent Mon News Agency

May 26, 2003

500 students attended Mon literacy training by Moulmein Literature and Culture Committee

On May 25 closing ceremony of Mon literacy training conducted by Moulmein Literature and Culture Committee (MLCC), about 500 students attended the one-month training that is especially arranged for those who would like to learn Mon literacy, said by the Chairman of the Committee.

The literacy training started on April 25 and it has lasted for one month and the closing ceremony was held in Mon Dhamma Center in Daing-won-gwin city ward of the Moulmein, the capital of Mon State.

About 200 Mon educated persons and retired civil servants, students and special guesses attended the ceremony.

In the ceremony, the Chairman of Mon literature and culture committee, Nai Seik said,

“During this year Mon literacy arranged by our committee for those who would like to learn Mon language, over 200 students in Moulmein and 300 students attended the classes. Even though there was no increase and decrease of students in Moulmein, a hundred of students increased in Chaung-zone Township. We are happy to see the increase of students in Chaung-zone this year after 3 years training.”

Chaung-zone Township is locating in an island, western of Moulmein.

Since 1989, Moulmein’s Mon Literature and Culture Committee has arranged the training for those who voluntarily learn the Mon language and this year the Committee 5 classes in Moulmein and 6 classes in Chaung-zone Township.

Although the Committee has every year asked the permission to the SPDC Mon State authorities to allow those classes, but the authorities never replied to them for official permission.

However the committee continued providing training to students but sometimes, the military intelligence came and threatened to close down the classes.