Lt-Gen Ye Myint meets departmental officials, social
organizations, townselders in Lahe Township

YANGON, 17 Jan—Member of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the Ministry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman of Sagaing Division Peace and Development Council Commander of North-West Command Maj-Gen Tha Aye and party, on 15 January morning, attended the Naga New Year Festival held at the Naga Yoya Sport Grounds in Lahe Township, Hkamti District and presented gifts to leaders of Naga national races.

At 12.30 pm, Lt-Gen Ye Myint, the commander and party met with departmental officials, members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association and twonselders at the office of Lahe Township Peace and Development Council and held a discussion on regional development.

First, the Chairmen of Lahe Township Peace and Development Council and Leshi Township Peace and Development Council and the Secretary of Nanyun Township USDA reported on cultivation of paddy and winter crops, self-sufficiency in rice, progress of work in cultivation of tea and coffee, land reclamation, education and health sectors.

Next, Chairman of Hkamti Township Peace and Development Council Lt-Col Maung Tin reported on work being carried out for regional development and requirements to be fulfilled to Lt-Gen Ye Myint.

Later, Deputy Minister for Health Dr Mya Oo, Deputy Minister for Progress of Border Areas and National Races and Development Affairs Brig-Gen Than Tun, Deputy Minister for Education Brig-Gen Aung Myo Min and Commander Maj-Gen Tha Aye reported on other salient points.

After hearing the reports, Lt-Gen Ye Myint attended to the needs. He said that Hkamti-Lahe road is being upgraded and bridges along the road are being built and upgraded with the aim of bringing about better transport in the region. Meanwhile, relentless efforts are to be made for construction of village-to-village roads in Lahe and Nanyun Townships.

Local authorities are to provide necessary assistance for cultivation of high yield paddy and for transforming the slash and burn farming into the highland farming. Efforts are to be made for cultivation of rubber in the areas where it can grow well along with perennial crops. In this process, virgin and fallow lands are to be reclaimed. Thus, emphasis is to be placed on agriculture, he added.

Only when there is better transport and prosperous agriculture will the education, health and social sectors in the region develop. With this end in view, service personnel are to strive tenaciously for organizing the local people to participate in nation-building endeavours, he noted.

Local authorities are to make field trips right down to villages to fulfil the requirements for regional development and Naga region will soon develop should departmental officials and local people make concerted efforts with goodwill, he said.

After that, Lt-Gen Ye Myint presented K 1 million each for education and health purpose to Lahe Nanyun and Panhsaung Townships. He also presented one computer each to Basic Education High School of Nanyun and BEHS of Panhsaung.

Next, Commander Maj-Gen Tha Aye presented warm clothes to service personnel in Lahe Township through the Chairman of Lahe Township Peace and Development Council.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Ye Myint, Commander Maj-Gen Tha Aye and party proceeded to the monastery in Lahe where they paid homage to members of the Sangha led by Secretary of the Township Sangha Nayaka Committee Presiding Sayadaw of the monastery Sadd-hammajotikadhaja Bhad-danta Jotisara and presented offertories to them. Next, Lt-Gen Ye Myint presented K 10,000 each to 31 monasteries and one nunnery in Lahe and Nanyon Townships and K 100,000 to the monastery in Lahe.

Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Aung Ko accepted the donations.

After that, Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Thura Aung Ko presented two sets of robes to two nuns.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Ye Myint, Commander Maj-Gen Tha Aye and party inspected the small-scale hydel power plant established on a self-reliant basis in Talan Ward, Lahe.

The hydel power plant is generating 3 KV for Talan Ward.

Next, Lt-Gen Ye Myint, the commander and party inspected tea plantations of the Development Affairs Department in Lahe Township.

In the evening, Lt-Gen Ye Myint met officers and other ranks and their families of the local battalion and gave instructions on education, health and social sectors and staff welfare measures and urged them to go hand in hand with local people for regional development. Next, Lt-Gen Ye Myint cordially greeted the Tatmadawmen and their families.

Next, Lt-Gen Ye Myint, the commander and party attended the bonfire to mark the Naga New Year Festival held at the Naga Yoya Sport Grounds and spent the night in Lahe. yesterday morning, Lt-Gen Ye Myint, the commander and part left Lahe by helicopter and arrived Hkamti.

They left Hkamti by aircraft of Myanma Airways and arrived back here in the evening.