A ceremony to donate books and publications to libraries of Myanmar Libraries Foundation and military headquarters, regiments, and units across the nation took place at the National Library in Nay Pyi Taw on 3 April. Chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla attended the event.
During the ceremony, the SAC Chairman Prime Minister delivered a remark as follows:
- If a book has not been read whenever it had been published for many years, it is a new one. Although these donated books are more than 60 years old, there are many topics today’s youth will not know. The values of the books can be counted but knowledge obtained from the books is countless.
- Learning education can be defined as nurturing the human resources which are essential for the future of the State. In the tenure of the SAC government, arrangements were made to create chances for students who untimely dropped out the school after passing the basic education middle education. Those students who did not pass the high school education will have chances for learning industrial, agriculture and livestock subjects as their vocational subjects.
- A plan is implemented for students to learn industrial, agriculture and livestock education at 51 basic education high schools in 50 districts in the 2023-24 academic year, with a plan for the establishment of 34 more schools in 2024-25 AY.
- So, it is necessary to urge all to read. Individuals need to encourage all the people including youths to read and create the environments for reading.
- Officials, parents and teachers are urged to make concerted efforts to write good pieces of literature that contribute to the interests of the country and the people, to republish good old books which can provide knowledge to readers, to launch awareness-raising campaigns to encourage everyone to read books, to nurture youths who are instilled not only with knowledge and skills but also with thinking skills, wisdom and five strengths, and to cooperate for sustainability and development of school and village libraries.
After that, the SAC Chairman Prime Minister Senior General and his wife presented 3,500 fiction and non-fiction books donated from the government and 3,000 copies of Luhtu Theikpan (Public Science Treatises) Volume I, II and III donated from the SAC Chairman’s family for the libraries across the nation through Myanmar Libraries Foundation Patron U Kyaw Hsan and Chairman U Nyunt Swe. Moreover, the SAC Chairman Prime Minister Senior General and his wife presented 2,000 fiction and non-fiction books donated from the government and 1,500 copies of Luhtu Theikpan (Public Science Treatises) Volume I, II and III donated from the SAC Chairman’s family for the libraries of military headquarters, regiments, and units through Adjutant General Lt-Gen Soe Min Oo.
Also present at the ceremony were Council Joint-Secretary Lt-Gen Ye Win Oo and wife, Council members General Mya Tun Oo and wife, Admiral Tin Aung San and wife, Dr. Hmu Htan, Dr. Ba Shwe and U Yan Kyaw, the Union Election Commission Chairman, Union ministers, the Nay Pyi Taw Council Chairman, senior military officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief, the commander of Nay Pyi Taw Command, deputy ministers, the chairman of Myanmar Press Council and members, the patron of Myanmar Libraries Foundation and members, departmental officials, teachers and students.
Source: MWD (4-4-2024)
- The SAC Chairman Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and wife donated 3,000 books for the libraries across the nation and 1,500 books for the libraries of military headquarters, regiments, and units through the officials.
- If a book has not been read whenever it had been published for many years, it is a new one. The values of the books can be counted but knowledge obtained from the books is countless.
- Arrangements were made to create chances for students who untimely dropped out the school after passing the basic education middle education. Those students who did not pass the high school education will have chances for learning industrial, agriculture and livestock subjects as their vocational subjects.
- A plan is implemented for students to learn industrial, agriculture and livestock education at 51 basic education high schools in 50 districts in the 2023-24 academic year, with a plan for the establishment of 34 more schools in 2024-25 AY.
- Individuals need to encourage all the people including youths to read and create the environments for reading.
- Officials, parents and teachers are urged to make concerted efforts to write good pieces of literature that contribute to the interests of the country and the people, and to republish good old books which can provide knowledge to readers.