Collected and Presented by Enlightened Research Foundation (EMReF) State and Region Parliaments

Vol.2 | Issue (60) Thursday, 2nd August 2018

Hearing Session to Be Held on Failure to Implement the Motions Which Had Been Passed

July 24, 2018 Moreover, the motions on an urgent need to effectively curb gambling and to control buying and selling of Bago Region Government Guarantees, Pledges and alcoholic beverages and tobacco products more tightly Undertakings Committee of region hluttaw said that the in accordance with excise duty were passed, but the hluttaw will hold a hearing session on the matters of implementations were nowhere to be seen. motions which had been passed but lacked implementation. There are three motions adopted but not yet At the sixth regular hluttaw session last March, the implemented in the two years of National League for motion to hold in check the members of the Police Force Democracy dominated hluttaw. was approved but no implementation followed suit. Reference: The Voice Daily

Magway Region Chief Minister Clarified the Complaint to Dismiss Municipal Minister from Office

July 24, 2018 how to maintain the road from damage. What do you want us to do At the ninth regular Magway about the drainage system? What region hluttaw session on July 24, to do about it? Would fund be Chief Minister Dr Aung Moe Nyo provided? If yes, then we’ll do it. For made clarifications with regard to instance, in some encroaching the complaint against U Zaw Min, wards, the houses are too close to the Regional Minister of Planning, the roads and the roads have literally Finance and Municipality to resign. become drainages. So, it is true The letter was signed by 44 MPs, that houses don’t have drainages. including Region Hluttaw Speaker U Waste water is flowing on the roads. Ta, the Deputy Speaker and carbon- Nobody gives money. Only when copied to Daw , money is given, we will be able to do the State Consellor of Myanmar. something.” The complaint letter, which was According to U Ta, the Speaker of sent to the Chief Minister, concerned Magway hluttaw, “Everyone knows U Zaw Min’s incompetence in Photo: https://www.facebook.com/ about the drainage system. So let mgyhluttaw/ managing the municipality of us' not talk about it. What we are Magway comprising 25 townships, complaining to the Chief Minister is criticism by the people of Magway It is also reported that the Chief that he [U Zaw Min] did not submit over not completing the construction Minister and the accused Minister the budget proposal on time and to of drainage in Magway, and the had to give the account of the take action on him. 44 MPs, including extremely late submission of the complaint to the State Counsellor. me and the Deputy Speaker lodged regional budget to an emergency Dr Aung Moe Nyo said, “I demoted the complaint. He did not fulfill his hluttaw meeting in March 2018. the assistant-engineer, the junior- responsibilities. We are asking for The carbon copy of the letter engineer, and the senior clerk from his resignation. Either at the house- was also sent to State Counsellor the Department of Municipality for hold level or at the national level Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the President a year. I transferred 20 staff. It is budget is the most important of the Union of the Republic of [the accusation] true that the drainage matter.” Myanmar, and the Headquarter of system is not good. But that is not National League for Democracy (NLD). the only issue. The main issue is Reference: http://news-eleven .com

+95 9 261654045 [email protected] www.emref.org | www.mypilar.org www.facebook.com/emrefmyanmar State and Region Parliaments News Bulletin Issue Vol (2), Issue - 60 Daw Sandar Min Questions the Claim that Industries Are Booming in

July 21, 2018 number of garment factories had grown from 200 to 600 during his Daw Sandar Min, an MP [Seitg- administration. yikhanaungto], showing the list of In the list of the fourteen factories the fourteen factories that closed that closed down, there were four down in Hlaing Thar Yar, questioned the garment factories, commodity factories claim by the Yangon Region Government and food enterprises. Among the that industries were growing. famous names, Wah Ha Ha Ice-scream, Daw Sandar Min, the Chairperson Beauty Palace, Myo Ma White of Finance, Planning and Economic Elephant Peanut Oil made the list. Committee brought the question According to the figure, there are up on her Facebook status on July 20. 589 males and 3150 females, alto- “Looking at the list of factories gether 3739 people working in that are going to close down, I was those factories that are going to wondering which figure the Yangon close down. Region Government used to claim The local media has reported that 600 government-owned factories that airlines, hotels, and factories were set up in Yangon”, Daw are closing down lately in series Sandar Min reflected. during the administration led by the In a BBC interview last week, the National League for Democracy. Photo: Mizzima Yangon Chief Minister said that the Reference: http://www.mizzimaburmese.com

Yangon Region Hluttaw Demands Power Eleven Company’s Profile

July 17, 2018

Yangon Region Hluttaw Committee for Transport, Communication, Construction, and Industry (CTCCI) demanded the company profile from Power Eleven Company which had been accused of failing to meet financial accountability, according to MP U Than Naing Oo (Pabedan Township Constituency– 1). The chairman of the Committee specified 10 categories and set July 23 as the latest date for the submission. The ten categories include the monthly report on the license plate number of all the vehicles from October 2017 to June 2018, the names of vehicle owners, revenue, meeting minutes, money collected for setting up CCTV, the names of the people who opened the money boxes, the matter on 32 million Kyat donation, matters of services and management and monthly income. It’s not exactly meant to investigate them but rather to present the facts found”, said U Than Naing Oo. U Than Naing Oo continued, “Myanmar Times reported that the Ko Tayoke Lay from Power Eleven result; however, the CTCCI has yet authority didn’t find any evidence Company; the Regional Committee’s to probe into the case. of money abuse when it interrogated inquiry also didn’t yield any positive Reference: http://news-eleven.com

2 State and Region Parliaments News Bulletin Issue Vol (2), Issue - 60 Ayeyarwaddy Region Government Urged to Collect Land and Building Tax Effectively

Daw Su Su Aung MP from Myan Aung Township

July 26, 2018 evasion, effective management of more than before would facilitate tax and to ensure there was no progress. An MP from Myan Aung Township corruption in custom department. U Kyaw Zay Ya, an MP from Kyaik put forward a motion at the region Daw Su Su Aung said that the Latt Township supported the hluttaw to urge the regional proposed motion aimed at creating motion. The minister for Finance government to collect land and a tax culture where accountability is also spoke in favour of the motion building tax systematically in the enhanced, an effective tax system and the Region Hluttaw decide to region. managed, and the government have further discussion on the The motion was to push the received due taxes. Since Myanmar motions. government to make sure that is rebuilding herself anew in many there was no tax avoidance, tax fronts, working for regional development Reference: http:// www.mizzimaburmese.com

5.2 Million Kyats Development Fund to Be Returned Next Month

July 27, 2018 President’s Office and the Auditor set up a new foundation, The General Office was assigned to Ayeyarwaddy Health and Education The Ayeyarwaddy Region conduct the investigation. Multi-Developments Foundation and Government has made public that It is reported that U , allegedly transferred the development The Ayeyarwady Health and Education the then-chief Minister, who was also fund from the old foundation to the Multi-Developments Foundation the chairman of reconstituted one. shall return the 5.2 billion kyats it Union Solidarity and Development The foundation stated that out received in donation from the previous Party (USDP) ran a foundation bearing of the “donated” 5.2 million Kyats, government on August 2, 2018. the name Ayeyarwaddy Multi- more than 400 million is lent for The alleged fraud emerged when Developments Foundation and raised electrification of 20 townships in U Zayar Min Thein, a lawmaker from funds by ways of soliciting contributions the region, 800 million is invested in Pyapon Constituency (1), asked in from local businessmen and staging joint ventures with trustworthy the first regular hluttaw session. music concerts. private businessmen, and the Former regional Chief Minister U When U Thein Aung had to leave remaining four million is deposited Mahn Johnny led the investigation office as the chief Minister after in four banks in . into the foundation in 2016. Then, losing in the 2015 general election, the case was taken up by the he dissolved the foundation and Reference: https:// burma.irrawaddy.com

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