State and Region Parliaments News Bulletin

Issue (44) _ Thursday, 30th November 2017 Hluttaw Reduced 20 Billion MMK from the Appropriation for Investment of Ayeyarwady Regional Gov’t

November 15, 2017

According to the Public Budget, appropriations and plans, Hluttaw was lakhsAccording to buy policeto the traffic Public cars forAccount, Chief Planning and Finance, Economic and reported to amend and draw the PlanningMinister wereand reviewed.Finance, Economic and Trade Development Committee, 20 budget plan with over 162 billion by billion MMK from the budget appropriation reducing the rest 20 billion. A member of parliament said that as Trade Development Committee, it was there were requests not only for the known that what the regional government for 2018-2019 financial year submitted plans actually needed to be carried out fromsubmitted April, to2018 the to regional September, Hluttaw 2018 5and for by Ayeyarwady regional government for the sake of Public but also for 2018 – 2019 financial year: part one is- were reduced by Regional Hluttaw. - buying materials and furniture for U Aung Thu Htwe, the head of that office use, cars and major repairs of part two is from October, 2018 to Sep committee, said that the budget appro cars, the heads of the respective tember, 2019, Hluttaw approved only the priation for the financial year divided departments were asked to report and total appropriation for investment and into two parts was submitted. . There explain in the session of Hluttaw the rest will be approved by Hluttaw by were over 182 billion for the appropriation Committee and the request of capital drawing Reference the detailed: The Voice Daily budget plan from October, 2018 to September, 2019. fund for major repairs of department depending on the financial support of He continued that as there were many cars and the budget request of 800 Union. Regional Gov’t Would Meet with Businessmen to Include Their Suggestions in Tax Law

November 24, 2017

- Yangon, said that as there were difficulties men in UMFCCI (Yangon). to amend the law after Hluttaw had Tax law has to be legislated every For the purpose of including the sug approved the tax law, that meeting would year and includes the rates of tax to be gestions of businessmen in tax law for be to include the voice of businessmen paid for the budget year. When the upcoming year, Yangon regional since the time of drawing the bill. government finishes the bill, it has to be government would meet and discuss On 24th November, Vice President U- submitted to HluttawReference and members : 7daydaily of with the businessmen. and Chief Minister of Yangon parliament will have to discuss the facts U Phyo Min Thein, Chief Minister of U Phyo Min Thein met with business included in the bill. State and Region Parliaments News Bulletin Issue 44

RC2 will be Transferred to Yangon University

November 23, 2017

and the damages would be repaired finished. A worker from the site said depending on the budget. that they have to set all the electric At the end of August of this year, U Hlaing Campus (former RC-2) cables in six school buildings of RC-2 Kyaw Kyaw Htun, regional member of which is now the branch of Practising and repair those to be in an original parliament from Hlaing Township,- School, Yangon University of Education style.Reference The : Popularwork of News repairing Journal the buildings asked the question in Hluttaw if there- is being repaired to be transferred to was started to do a month ago. was the plan to renovate the universi Yangon University and it is almost ties in to be right stan The Proposal to Minimize the dard and to repair the damages in the- branch of present Practising School, Yangon University of Education/ for Qualifications for recruiting the mer Yangon University Hlaing Campus (RC2). U , Minister of teachers for Northern Rakhine Social Welfare from Yangon regional government cabinet answered that November 22, 2017 (Hlaing Campus, former RC-2) would be transferred to Yangon University the local villages could be employed to State and Region Parliaments be the primary school teachers if the The proposal was submitted to qualifications were minimized for the News Bulletin Rakhine State Hluttaw to urge the ethnic regions including Northern Union Government by Rakhine State Rakhine. Collected and Presented by Government that as a special plan,- U Aung Win (Myay Pone Constituency) Enlightened Ministry of Education should minimize agreed and discussed that the proposal Research Foundation (EMReF) the qualifications for recruiting prima and the plebiscite were held to continue ry school teachers for remote regions whether to discuss it or not. As there including Buthidaung and Maungdaw was no one who objected to the proposal, - Contact - in Northern Rakine State. - it would be continued to discuss at +95 9 261654045 That proposal was submitted by Hluttaw. U Zaw Zaw Myint (Buthidaung Constit Due to the terrorist activities uency-1), State Member of Parliament, during last August, 400 schools in the at the first day of sixth regular sessionst villages at borderland in the regions of Rakhine State Hluttaw on 21 of Buthidaung, Maungdaw and Yathae www.emref.org November. Taung in Northern Rakhine were www.mypilar.org U Zaw Zaw Myint said that although closed. According to the Administrative it was good that Ministry of Education Office of Education of Rakhine State, set the policy of qualification such as there were over 150000 students and graduate, high school graduate, etc., to 2482 teachers in those schools which employ primary school teachers for all Referencehad to be : Irrawaddy closed. www.facebook.com/emrefmyanmar over the country, the youths with the qualification of grade 9 and grade 10 in | 2 | State and Region Parliaments News Bulletin Issue 44

Children Hluttaw in Mandalay

November 21, 2017

from private high schools, government Short News on 20th November, 2017, Children schools and universities in Mandalay In World Children’s Day which is participated and performed asking questions in the places of Hluttaw Magway Regional Hluttaw, Sagaing Hluttaw was held for a while as Speaker, Members of Parliament and Regional Hluttaw and Tanintharyi “Children’s Takeover” plan by Mandalay Ministers, answering the questions as Regional Hluttaw will have emergency Regional Hluttaw in collaboration the respective Ministers, submitting the sessions in the last week of November, withperformed UNICEF. to replace the place of the proposal, accepting and discussing 2017. Those sessions will be held to “In the World Children’s Day, children them. Aprilbe able to toSeptember discuss andof 2018 approve – 2019 the arranged for them not to give the “That plan is nice. I welcome it for budget for the first six months from elders. To be practical, Hluttaw making the children understand and familiarize with the culture of Hluttaw financial year. The rest of State and speech in the wrong way,” explained U andReference Democracy,” : Mandalay said Regional U Lin HluttawLin Htun, Face a- Regional Hluttaw will hold the Aung Kyaw Oo, Speaker of Mandalay localbook Page, of Mandalay. The Voice Daily sessionsReference –to Multiple discuss News and Sources approve that Regional Hluttaw. supplementary budget. In that ceremony, about 50 students The Proposal to Form More Ethnic Villages in Maungdaw Will be discussed in State Hluttaw

November 26, 2017 the local people dared not live in ethnic Proposer U Kyaw Lwin said that as objector. “We cannot do anything if there It was decided to continue to discuss villages and migrated to other regions are no people according to geopolitics. the proposal to found more villages of due to the attack of Bengali terrorists in We need people for that. The Rakhine ethnics by gathering Rakhine Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Yathae government has to arrange for the and other Rakhine ethnic groups from Taung Townships, the whole land people (ethnics) to be able to live in Buthidaung, Maungdaw, Yathae Taung would be lost if the ethnic villages could sustainable safety. We can protect the and other townshipsth in Rakhine. not be gathered and founded. land only in this way,” said a local At the sixth regular session of Rakhine Some members of parliament said- from Maungdaw. Hluttaw held on 24 November, U Kyaw that after the terrorist attacks on 25th At the moment, Rakine government Lwin (Kyauk Phyu Constituency -1), August, the local from the ethnic villag cabinet starts the processes of State Member of Parliament, submitted es in Maungdaw region migrated to reconstruction of some ethnic villages that proposal and U Kyaw Zaww Oo other regions and some didn’t come burntReferenc by : 7Day the terrorists.Daily (Sittwe Constituency -2) agreed and back. Hluttaw decided to continue to discussed it. discuss that proposal as there was no | 3 |