The ceremony of donating K3 million cash assistance, copies of public science treatises, books and publications by State Administration Council (SAC) Chairman Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla’s family to the libraries in Magway Region, and the opening ceremony of Developing Libraries and Raising Reading Habits campaign aiming to develop school libraries and acquire knowledge for the students through nurturing reading habits, took place at No. 1 BEHS, in Minbu Township, Magway Region, on 31 August.
During the event, Union Information Minister U Maung Maung Ohn highlighted that the State Head instructed him to reprint the public science treaties and donate them to the libraries, in addition to, such campaigns have been organized to promote the reading habit of the students and nurture them to have reading habits. The State Head said that “an illiterate person is like a person sitting who don’t move forward while a literate person is like a walking person moving forward” so that the students have to be learning and reading to become well-round educated persons for their future. Then, on behalf of the SAC Chairman Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla’s family, K3 million, 122 copies of public science treatises Volume (VI) and (VII) and 233 copies of fiction and non-fiction books for libraries in Magway Region, and five DTH receivers and 15 DVB-T2 set-top boxes for basic high and middle schools in Minbu Township, were handed over the officials. Moreover, Magway Region Chief Minister donated K60 million for four new libraries in Magway Region through Union Information Minister.
Present were Union Minister for Information U Maung Maung Ohn, in his capacity as Chairman of the Myanmar Libraries Development Cooperation Committee, Magway Region Chief Minister U Tint Lwin, Brig-Gen Thein Tun Oo from local military station, Minister of Security and Border Affairs Colonel Moe Min Thein, Minister of Social Affairs U Myo Myint and officials.
Source: MWD (1-9-2024)
- The SAC Chairman Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla’s family donated K3 million cash assistance, copies of public science treatises, books and publications, for libraries in Magway Region.
- Union Minister U Maung Maung Ohn donated five DTH receivers and 15 DVB-T2 set-top boxes for basic high and middle schools in Minbu Township through officials. Magway Region Chief Minister donated K60 million for four new libraries in Magway Region through Union Information Minister.