Tour in Pyin Oo Lwin: SAC Chairman meets with departmental staff

Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing met with the departmental personnel at National Landmark Gardens in PyinOoLwin on Thursday.

The Prime Minister said PyinOoLwin is famous as a hilly resort town with many historic buildings, attracting visitors from home and abroad. Despite fewer visitors during the time of COVID-19, the city has now seen a boom in tourism. Previously, PyinOoLwin was a cool and pleasant town, but due to climate change, the city has experienced high temperatures, highlighting environmental degradation as part of human error.

The landmark National Kandawgyi Garden suffers from depletion of water resources due to deforestation, and necessary repair works have been carried out to ensure the proper flow of water into the garden. He urged all to carry out forest plantation efforts to achieve a greener environment while making efforts to extend the cultivation of coffee and export it as a finished quality product.

He called for the collaborative efforts of all concerned persons for the further development of this famous city. The Union Ministers provided update reports on coffee cultivation, plans for constructing health facilities, school enrollment and academic matters, civil development works, establishing the agriculture and livestock zones, efforts for proper flow of water and greening works.

The Prime Minister and party later took a tour around National Kandawgyi Gardens and the chosen sites for construction of private hospitals as efforts are being made to establish PyinOoLwin as a Health City. They then arrived at PyinOoLwin People’s Hospital, and inspected the renovation progress of the Orthopaedic Ward, damaged by the terrorist attack on April 14th.

The Prime Minister also comforted the patients receiving health treatment at the hospital, and instructed for maintaining cleanliness and tidyness with better facilities.