Reconstruction and rehabilitation gaining momentum in Pyinsalu

On 1st July, our news team arrived at Pyinsalu of Labutta Township for the second time. From the jetty, we saw progress of rehabilitation and reconstruction works in Pyinsalu. Along the Strand road, houses for the people were under construction by Max Myanmar Company in the places of tarpaulin tents that we had witnessed during our first trip.
The houses were systematically alloted in wards. We saw participation of construction workers of Max Myanmar Company together with local people, members of State/ Division Union Solidarity and Development Associations and Tatmadawmen in building the houses, and we had interviews with responsible persons.
Major Myo Myint explained that a total of 81 Tatmadawmen from No. 1 Tatmadaw Vocational Training Depot under the Directorate of Resettlement of the Ministry of Defence and 19 Tatmadawmen of No.1 Recruitment and Resettlement Unit, totaling 100 were taking part in the house construction project being implemented by Max Myanmar Company.
We also witnessed officers and other ranks of the Defence Services (Navy) who were carrying
construction materials from the port of Pyinsalu. They were 50 naval servicemen from Ayeyawady Naval Region Command Headquarters. Lt-Cmdr Maung Maung Myint explained that they were stationed in Pyinsalu joining hands with the local people in undertaking the
removal of debris, construction of housing estates, cleaning of farmlands and lakes, reclamation of farmlands and ploughing task in Layyinkwin, Ywathaaye, Nanthagon, Kongyi, Waboegon and
Kyarchaung villages of Pyinsalu.
Actually, USDA members of States and Divisions, who were based in Pyinsalu, made field trips to surrounding villages of Pyinsalu and participated in rehabilitation and reconstruction tasks. Moreover, they daily undertook sanitation at the environs of houses, fumigation, dredging of lakes, maintenance of roads for smooth transport and assembling of power-tillers for agricultural purpose in cooperation with the workers of Agricultural Mechanization Department.
We saw the USDA members fumigating both sides of roads in Pyinsalu. In an interview, Monywa District USDA executive U Phyo Maung Maung said that their group comprised 49 USDA members from Sagaing Division, Yangon Division, Chin State and Ayeyawady Division. In the region, they observed the requirements of the region and provided necessary assistance for the region, he said. He added that the USDA members were divided into three groups in assisting the local people. He continued to say that six-member teams of the group-2 participated in fumigating two times daily in the morning and in the evening and construction of houses. The group-1 and the group-3 maintained the roads in Waboegon Village, while the medical team provided health care services to the people in Layyinkwin Village, he added. He explained that the local people welcomed their voluntary works. In addition, he said that the local people hand in hand with the USDA members carried out development tasks. As a result, the villages were kept clean and pleasant day after day and the farmlands were ready for cultivation, he said.